Donegal — week of Mon, 11 Sept

Charles Ward — 100% RDR 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Charlie McConalogue — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 31 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 31 returns

GIY Ireland Budgetary matters
- Shared GIY's Pre Budget Submission with Minister and government officials & representatives
The Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) Ltd · 2 returns Agriculture
- National Contingency Plan in place to allow for an extension of the period for slurry spreading from October 1, 2023 to October 15, 2023 due to ongoing difficult harvesting conditions.
- request an extension of the period for shallow cultivation or sowing a crop after combine harvesting due to poor harvesting conditions.
Alcohol Action Ireland Health
- Report from Health Research Board on alcohol related hospitalisations
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 24 returns Agriculture · Development and Zoning · Environment · Finance · EU Affairs
- S.I. No. 393/2022 - Shallow Stubble Cultivation Derogation
- Nitrates Derogation
- Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT)
- Land Restoration and Re-Wetting.
- Land Restoration and Re-Wetting.
- Flooding on the River Shannon
- Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR)
- National Genotyping Programme
- EUNature Restoration Law
- EUNature Restoration Law
- Food Vision 2030 Tillage Group
- Plant Protection
- Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES)
- Roundtable on Agriculture with the Taoiseach
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS)
- Concrete Levy
- IFA Budget 2024 Submission - Measures to mitigate increased cost of production and general inflationary pressures
- Bioeconomy Forum
- Beef Suckler Sector
- Agriculture Water Quality Working Group
- Beef Markets
- IFA Budget 2024 Submission - Measures to Support Farmers Through Brexit
- New Forestry Programme - A Lost Opportunity
- New Forestry Programme - A Lost Opportunity
Shine Health
- Nicola Byrne, Shine CEO lobbied the DPOs included below to engage with the Green Ribbon September Campaign, through ordering and distributing Green Ribbons and supporting social media posts. nd
Diabetes Ireland Health
- To seek sustained investment in supporting people living with diabetes and promote a more strategic approach to addressing longterm improvements making huge government cost savings, increase Oireachtas members awareness about the scale and severity of diabetes and its impact on society and to work together to seek ongoing government commitment to a long-term innovative strategic framework for managing diabetes with committed annual funding.
IRISH FISH PROCESSORS AND EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION Marine
- The urgent need to provide the BAR liquidity scheme for fish processing, exporting and retail. As promised in the Seafood Taskforce.

Pat the Cope Gallagher — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Pearse Doherty — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 9 questions · 14 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Transport 2 questions
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport to provide the number of cancellations on the Bus Éireann route from Donegal to Dublin over the past six months; and the reason for each cancellation, in tabular form. [37271/23]
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if it is possible to attain a SPSV licence to work in County Donegal while residing in the jurisdiction in the North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37649/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times the car park of Glenveagh National Park has been full in each year since 2021; if any plans are in place to provide additional parking spaces for the park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37644/23]
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of any disqualifications for applicants under the local authority mortgage protection insurance group scheme for underlying health conditions, specifically type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37922/23]
Children 2 questions
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what funding is available for a centre (details supplied) based in the North, but which offers services to children and adults in County Donegal with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37648/23]
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the parents of a child in Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive services and support for their autistic child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38407/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when the parent of a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment for CAMHS in Donegal town, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37428/23]
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for a procedure in Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39092/23]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the Government has any plans to address the fees that must be paid for graduate medicine courses and the absence of a loan facility for these courses from the pillar banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37622/23]

New lobbying 14 returns

Shine Budgetary matters
- Shine lobbied relevant DPOs for a budgetary increase to the mental health community & voluntary sector. A specific demand was made to increase Shine's budget by 1M Euros.
Association of Insurance & Financial Brokers trading as Brokers Ireland · 2 returns Finance
- Regulation Overload of Micro SMEs in the Financial Sector
- Brokers Ireland pre 2024 budget submission
The Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) Ltd Agriculture
- request an extension of the period for shallow cultivation or sowing a crop after combine harvesting due to poor harvesting conditions.
Cormac McKay Transport
- Pre Budget sub mission calling for Grants and incentives for the encouragement of Shared Mobility, Car Sharing & Ride Sharing and for the deployment of Remote Piloted Vehicles and Autonomous Vehicles. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MRbu7oB0WHfhZc3PU0QE1tQs5eIETQZDnD6ITMwh3bA/edit
Alcohol Action Ireland · 2 returns Health
- Report from Health Research Board on alcohol related hospitalisations
- Budget 2024 recommendations to reduce harm from alcohol, including increase in excise duties, social responsibility levy on alcohol industry, establishment of an Alcohol Office, funding for services for all impacted by alcohol harm
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 5 returns Development and Zoning · Environment · Finance · Agriculture
- Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT)
- EUNature Restoration Law
- IFA Budget 2024 Submission - Measures to mitigate increased cost of production and general inflationary pressures
- IFA Budget 2024 Submission - Measures to Support Farmers Through Brexit
- New Forestry Programme - A Lost Opportunity
Diabetes Ireland Health
- To seek sustained investment in supporting people living with diabetes and promote a more strategic approach to addressing longterm improvements making huge government cost savings, increase Oireachtas members awareness about the scale and severity of diabetes and its impact on society and to work together to seek ongoing government commitment to a long-term innovative strategic framework for managing diabetes with committed annual funding.
IRISH MUSIC RIGHTS ORGANISATION CLG Budgetary matters
- Submission of IMROs budget submission

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Education 2 questions
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education to provide a clear and detailed timeline for the delivery of the long-awaited three-school campus in an area (details supplied). [37608/23]
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when her Department will provide the finances required to demolish and rebuild school buildings at a school (details supplied), given that the engineer's report has recommended same and as applied for to her Department. [37637/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the recent statement by an organisation (details supplied) that many engineers encountered difficulties in obtaining professional indemnity insurance coverage while operating the original defective block grant scheme; and if he will confirm that the engineers working for or contracted to the Housing Agency will be provided with professional indemnity insurance coverage for the decisions that they make under the enhanced defective block grant scheme. [37318/23]
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the names/company names of the engineer consultants that were on the original panel for the pyrite remediation scheme, and the names of the engineer consultants that are currently on the panel, in tabular form. [37319/23]
Foreign 1 question
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the plans the Government has to participate in the 25th anniversary of the official opening of the Island of Ireland Peace Park on 11 November 2023 in Messines, Belgium; who will be representing the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39002/23]
Defence 1 question
- 2023-09-11 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department has considered engaging with the Irish fishing industry to examine whether some of those who have recently been forced to leave the industry, due to reduced fishing quotas, could be deployed to fulfil roles in the Naval Service on a supporting civilian basis, similar to other jurisdictions and naval services. [38397/23]

What your Donegal TDs did this week

New lobbying 31 returns

Questions asked 9 total

New lobbying 14 returns

Questions asked 6 total