Donegal — week of Mon, 27 May

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 27 May – 2 Jun 2024 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 30 questions · 6 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Neutrality and the Triple Lock

2024-05-29 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 68–45

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 2 Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 3 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher · Pearse Doherty

The motion · motion passed 68–44

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 2 Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 3 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher · Pearse Doherty

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 2 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Comhlámh Foreign Affairs
- Comhlámh's Justice for Palestine member groups asks TDs for their support in the South African at the ICJ

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 · 7 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Housing 2 questions
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Government is considering revising the defective block redress scheme given the issues that are emerging with the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24413/24]
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given recent committee meetings, the Government is considering revisiting and altering its defective block redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24401/24]
Health 2 questions
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when the GP surgery in Lettermacaward in County Donegal will be open to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24472/24]
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when respite services will be available again at Killybegs community hospital; when the service will be returned to a five-day-a-week service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24481/24]
Transport 1 question
- 2024-05-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if plans are in place to widen Curreen Bridge, County Donegal on the Glenties side of Fintown on the R250; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23635/24]
Education 1 question
- 2024-05-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update for the proposed autism unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23634/24]
Children 1 question
- 2024-05-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 555 of 23 April 2024, when a full HSE response will be received. [23613/24]

New lobbying 2 returns

Comhlámh Foreign Affairs
- Comhlámh's Justice for Palestine member groups asks TDs for their support in the South African at the ICJ
Lahiffe & Associates Finance
- Pre-Budget 2025 Submission

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Education 3 questions
- 2024-05-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will urgently review the decision by her Department not to include a school (details supplied) in the school capital building programme. [23739/24]
- 2024-05-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when she will reach a decision on the demand from school transport escorts for fair pay and conditions to reflect the importance of their work for young people with disabilities and their families. [23740/24]
- 2024-05-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if her Department will work with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to establish an ASD unit, when their change of status to a co-educational school proceeds soon; and if she and her Department are aware that the school has a long history of innovation in special education, and with an administrative principal and specialist trained SEN staff (to masters level) already in place and two classrooms immediately available for use as ASD units, alongside their spacious grounds and large sports hall, they are in an ideal position to establish an ASD unit. [24183/24]
Housing 2 questions
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to make changes to the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme to address the concerns of the estimated 3,000 persons who have attended public meetings in Donegal and Mayo and called for a genuine 100% redress scheme similar to that provided to the victims of the pyrite scandal in Dublin and north Leinster;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23799/24]
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the long standing housing issues in Carndonagh and Milford town, County Donegal whereby Donegal County Council and affordable housing bodies cannot proceed with the purchase of a large number of properties in both towns, for families and persons on the social housing list due to his Department's limits and rules; and if he will intervene to find a reasonable solution in both instances.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23798/24]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2024-05-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will, as a matter of urgency, ensure that the European Commission establishes, by means of an implementing decision, the occurrence of an "exceptional event" in relation to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and that the operational programme for the 2021-2027 EMFAF is designed to enable the prompt and efficient drawdown of these very urgent and crucial funds needed to stabilise struggling aquaculture businesses in Ireland. [23921/24]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2024-05-30 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will sign and confirm the Statutory Instrument required to open the occupation of sea-fisher for eligibility for the general employment permit for non-EEA crew in the Irish fishing fleet, mindful that this blockage is having a serious impact on Irish fishing vessels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24500/24]