Donegal — week of Mon, 19 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 19 Feb – 25 Feb 2024 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 30 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023

2024-02-21 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend and extend the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 and to provide for related matters

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 56–73

Voted for 2 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Voted against 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services

2024-02-21 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 71–60

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 2 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

The motion · motion passed 71–61

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 2 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities

2024-02-21 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 70–60

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 2 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024

2024-02-21 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 42–89

Voted for 2 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Voted against 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

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 5 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

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 5 votes · 14 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Finance 7 questions
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware that loan owners (vulture funds) are not subject to the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2018 where they confer legal title of the loan to the credit servicing firms but retain beneficial ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7563/24]
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware that loan owners (vulture funds) are not required to be regulated when they maintain beneficial ownership of a loan but have conferred legal title of the loan to the credit servicing firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7564/24]
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against loan owners to the FSPO which were not investigated on the grounds of the conduct occurring prior to January 2019, with respect to complaints in each of the years 2013 to 2023 [7565/24]
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against credit servicing firms to the FSPO which were not investigated on the grounds that the conduct complained of was with respect to “maintenance of control over key decisions” and, as such, the appropriate entity was the loan owner and not the credit servicing firm, with the conduct occurring prior to January 2019, with respect to complaints in each of the years 2013 to 2023. [7566/24]
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against credit servicing firms to the FSPO which were not investigated on the grounds of the conduct occurring prior to 8 July 2015, with respect to complaints in each of the years 2013 to 2023. [7567/24]
- 2024-02-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he or his Department have received any correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners or any other body regarding section 22 of the Finance Act 2022 and the opportunity it creates for aggressive tax planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8341/24]
- 2024-02-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to outline the application of relevant contracts tax as it applies to subcontractors from the North which operate in the South; how the charge is deducted and payments refunded; if the Revenue Commissioners apply CIS on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs with respect to subcontractors from the North which operate in the South; and with respect to both, how refunds from the charge are processed and the timeline for which refunds are paid to Northern subcontractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8370/24]
Children 3 questions
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hotel beds, by county, currently provided to beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine and persons in the international protection process, respectively, disaggregated by hotels or accommodation providers that were commercially active and commercially inactive. [8476/24]
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hotel beds, by county, currently provided to beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine and persons in the international protection process, disaggregated by hotels or accommodation providers that were commercially active and commercially inactive prior to the State taking out contracts with respect to those beds. [8477/24]
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of beds and contracts, referenced above, for which contracts expire within the next six and 12 months, respectively. [8478/24]
Health 2 questions
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the community neurorehabilitation team in CHO1 is operating with less than a third of the minimum recommended staffing; his plans to address this understaffing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7865/24]
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive a replacement hearing aid from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7998/24]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he plans to address the issue with flooding in Castlefinn, County Donegal, along the N15; if the solution to the problem presented to his Department by this Deputy at the Oireachtas finance committee recently will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7405/24]
Housing 1 question
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the EU is still taking proceedings against Ireland due to the failure to install the Gweedore sewerage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8483/24]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Housing 5 questions
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the NSAI has received research results and-or statements from the research partners engaged by the GSI to investigate the issue of defective concrete in Ireland. [8521/24]
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if in the interest of transparency for families impacted by the defective concrete crisis, he will ensure that all research results, whether interim or final, and all statements received by the NSAI to date from the Geological Survey Ireland and research partners are published forthwith. [8522/24]
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all research results, whether interim or final, and statements from the independent research partners commissioned by Geological Survey Ireland into the issue of defective concrete are being acted upon with due diligence with immediate effect by his Department, NSAI and the Housing Agency. [8523/24]
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on his Department, the NSAI, the Housing Agency and local authorities persisting to administer the multi-billion euro defective concrete block scheme based upon a flawed desktop study, without prudently and immediately taking into account the clear scientific evidence from independent researchers that the primary cause of defective concrete in all counties is internal sulphate attack. [8524/24]
- 2024-02-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will make changes to the guidelines that deny planning permission to applicants in Donegal who would have to access on to the N56. [8558/24]
Education 2 questions
- 2024-02-20 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of the widespread shock and dismay amongst parents and carers, caused by the changes to the allocation of the special education teaching hours; and if she will urgently review this decision. [7622/24]
- 2024-02-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the abolition of the assessment a child has to do in order to get a scribe for examinations; if she agrees that this decision should be left to the principal or vice-principal of the relevant school as they will know the child's needs better than anyone. [8132/24]
Health 1 question
- 2024-02-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if a treatment plan for a medical condition at Galway University Hospital or another public hospital in this State will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8301/24]