Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 9 Sept

Peter Burke — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 17 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 17 returns

Irish Congress of Trade Unions · 2 returns EU Affairs · Employment
- Proposal to amend Directive and effective implementation of transnational information on consultation rights.
- General Election Manifesto
IE Domain Registry Economic Development and Industry
- Minister Peter Burke launched 'Ireland's Digital Readiness Monitor' a research report from .ie and DCU.
Irish Exporters Association · 2 returns Trade
- Enterprise Forum
- Trade Horizons Conference at Dublin Castle
Federation of Early Childhood Providers Children and Youth Affairs
- Core Funding, Business suffering,
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland Banking and Financial Institutions
- Transposition of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
William Fry Environment
- Joint submission with Arthur Cox LLP, Matheson LLP, A&LGoodbody LLP and McCann Fitzgerald LLP on SI336/2024 The European Union (Corporate Sustainability Reporting) Regulations 2024 commenced on 6 July 2024. Issues have arisen around the interpretation of certain provisions and how they are intended to operate in practice. The submission's objective is to set out these issues and engage in a dialogue with the Department to achieve clarity on areas of particular concern.
Guaranteed Irish Taxation
- Request reinstatement of full CGT retirement relief for individuals who make lifetime transfers of family businesses to a child.
Irish Self Catering Federation · 2 returns Tourism
- Register for Short-Term Rental Legislation
- Register for Short-Term Rental Legislation
Gas Networks Ireland Energy and Natural Resources
- Provision of documentation and follow up meetings to discuss Gas Networks Ireland policy priorities document including information on the potential of biomethane in Ireland, the importance of security of energy supply and the potential for the national gas network to transport green hydrogen.
Licensed Vintners Association · 3 returns Justice and Equality · Finance · Trade
- Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2024
- Vat 9% on Food and Budget '25 priorities
- Input to Enterprise & budgetary policy to boost commercial viability of licensed trade
Boliden Tara Mines Economic Development and Industry
- Briefing on Tara mines, raise awareness of challenges faced and discuss supports available for business.
Vincent Jennings/Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association (CSNA) Budgetary matters
- Sought assistance from Minister to push for ACA

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 29 questions · 6 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 29 total

Health 10 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health his views on the waiting times for postmortems in Westmeath (details supplied). [33783/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the number of Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar employees currently out sick from work, on full pay, and the length of each absence, in tabular form. [34164/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [35568/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if his Department will investigate the reason test results have not been provided for a person (details supplied). [35646/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if a physiotherapy appointment in the Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [35945/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if the provision of home help hours for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [35947/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if there is currently restricted access to the additional MRI scanner at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar; and if this scanner is available for both inpatient and outpatient cases. [35953/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if an appointment can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [35954/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be called for surgery at the first available date. [35959/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place to get Ireland ready for the EU Health Data Space Regulation; and if he is confident Ireland can move its health records online in time. [35960/24]
Social 5 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will commit to a full review of the capital disregard for all social welfare payments given the rate of inflation since these thresholds were last reviewed. [35587/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review of a contributory pension claim and a claim for home care period contributions by a person (details supplied). [35958/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied). [35971/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on the application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [35972/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [35981/24]
Education 4 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if issues with a school bus route in Westmeath (details supplied) will be addressed. [35946/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the status of school projects (details supplied). [35968/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the alternatives supports available to eligible students for school transport when the Department cannot source a bus to provide said transport. [35969/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if a school bus ticket will be issued to a person (details supplied). [35980/24]
Housing 4 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on revised planning guidelines, to specifically outline the number of parking spaces per household in city settings and also in town and village settings. [34803/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider shortening the timeframe for qualification for the tenant purchase scheme. [34888/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason elected county councillors are being blocked from attending pre-planning meetings with constituents by some local authorities; and if such a rule is written into legislation. [35768/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the remit of the Land Development Agency. [35967/24]
Public Expenditure 2 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when he expects the report into the contracted cost for provision of a bicycle stand at Leinster House to be completed; and if he will commit to publishing it in full. [35966/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the upgrading of Castlepollard Garda station will be expedited, as it is currently unfit for an operational Garda station. [35970/24]
Justice 2 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice to urgently review the laws concerning the rights of fathers (details supplied). [34791/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice if there are any changes that can be implemented to assist British citizens, who are long-time residents of Ireland, in avoiding long security delays on re-entry to the State (details supplied). [35948/24]
Tourism 1 question
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has received a proposal from RTÉ for the removal of its plus one channels and its digital radio stations, as outlined in its New Direction strategy, as required under section 103 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 (details supplied); if she received RTÉ's proposal, when she plans to commence her decision making process under the Act; and if that process will include taking submissions from the public. [33903/24]
Rural 1 question
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a valid CLÁR application has been submitted by a community centre (details supplied); and when a decision on CLÁR applications will issue. [34889/24]

New lobbying 6 returns

Third Age Health
- Positive Ageing, services for older people, ageism.
St Hilda's Services Finance
- Looking for help in relation to a CAS Funding Application
Quartech group Banking and Financial Institutions
- Conduct of MABS, CBI, CCPC and FSPO
Federation of Early Childhood Providers Children and Youth Affairs
- Core Funding, Business suffering,
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland · 2 returns Health
- Development of dementia-specific supports and services in Athlone.
- Friends of ASI Community Initiative - Mullingar Group and Mullingar Action Plan

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 23 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 23 total

Education 12 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if a person with autism (details supplied), who resides in County Offaly, can continue to use the same bus to attend his third-level education in Mullingar, where he previously attended post-primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33943/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if the teaching council plan to update their further education requirements to include ASD specific disciplines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33949/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the number of students that have had access to the Irish sign language specialist classroom support scheme since the introduction of the in-school supports for students who are deaf in 2022; and the number that have applied but have been refused, per year, in tabular form. [34260/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education to outline, in relation to the in-school supports for students who are deaf introduced in 2022 and now that this scheme is in its second year running, the number of the seven persons on the Irish sign language specialist classroom support panel that have been called on to date. [34261/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education to provide an estimated date of when the citizens’ assembly on the future of education will get under way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34585/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the selection process for school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34793/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the reasons families who previously held a school bus ticket and paid for these tickets for a number of years are now being put on a waiting list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34794/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will move to construction phase of works. [35489/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [35490/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [35491/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the funding provided for capital projects for schools in County Wexford from 2021 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [35492/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [35493/24]
Justice 4 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 1481 of 23 July 2024, if she has received the necessary information from Garda authorities in order to answer this PQ. [35494/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the number of weapons seized by Gardaí in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the number of those weapons that were destroyed or disposed of by Gardaí in each of the years in question. [35495/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the percentage of her Department's capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first eight months of 2024 to date. [35496/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to the Meath/Westmeath roads policing unit as of 28 August 2024. [35497/24]
Health 4 questions
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if he has considered extending the CNM2 salary scale by one further scale point and the introduction of a long-service increment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33926/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated date for the opening of the MRI unit in Mullingar hospital; the reason for its delay; and the steps he is taking to ensure it does not get delayed any further. [34150/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists and speech and language therapists, by grade, working in Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [35498/24]
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons based at Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [35499/24]
Housing 1 question
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of council-owned properties retrofitted in terms of insulation, windows, heating systems and so on, in counties Westmeath, Longford, Offaly and Laois; and the number of homes that are currently waiting to be retrofitted in same. [34092/24]
Social 1 question
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE community welfare officers in Longford and Westmeath in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the locations in which they operate, in tabular form. [35500/24]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2024-09-09 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the childcare supports that students undertaking further education training courses in Westmeath are eligible for. [35501/24]

New lobbying 1 return

Federation of Early Childhood Providers Children and Youth Affairs
- Core Funding, Business suffering,

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