Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 30 Sept

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 30 Sept – 6 Oct 2024 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 15 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 94–47

Voted for 3 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Financial Resolution No. 2: Value-Added Tax

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 81–62

Voted for 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Voted against 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 89–53

Voted for 3 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 87–52

Voted for 3 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Eamon Scanlon — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Frankie Feighan — Fine Gael 4 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Health 1 question
- 2024-10-02 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if he could re-examine the waiting times for a patient to be considered under the access to care scheme for urgent medical procedures, from the current 36 months’ wait to the previously used three to six months’ wait, especially for time critical procedures such as heart valve replacements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39318/24]
Finance 1 question
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Finance if he would consider reviewing the rental tax credits scheme, which currently disallows in cases where the rental agreement is between a parent and an adult child; if he agrees that this condition is considered by many as unfair, discriminatory and invidious, and possibly contravenes Article 41 of Bunreacht na hÉireann (details supplied); and if his Department will review this measure in the upcoming Finance Bill. [39571/24]
Education 1 question
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if her Department will provide sanction to Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board to purchase a house, which is for sale, to facilitate the development of an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim, which was sanctioned by her Department in December 2021. [39550/24]
Housing 1 question
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider increasing the threshold under the shared equity scheme to purchase a house in Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, which is currently capped at €350,000 (details supplied). [39551/24]
Social 1 question
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider changing the rules around community employment workers who currently are not entitled to the winter fuel allowance, as this may provide a bigger incentive to recruit more participants to schemes, which play a vital role in so many communities across the country. [39552/24]

Marian Harkin — Independent 4 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Health 4 questions
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will act on the urgent need to upgrade and extend the HSE-owned building from which the Gurteen family practice operates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39546/24]
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the reopening of the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38825/24]
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if a decision has been made not to fund additional hours for home care for service users in Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal; if overtime hours of caregivers are being cut back; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38826/24]
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when a person will receive surgery (details supplied). [39354/24]
Housing 1 question
- 2024-10-02 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to this Deputy’s previous correspondence on the inclusion of Sligo in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme and the reply received (details supplied), if he can outline the timeline for bringing a motion for resolution to each House of the Oireachtas and, subject to the passing of a resolution, bringing a second memorandum to Government requesting that the order be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39336/24]
Social 1 question
- 2024-10-02 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason there are no public toilet facilities at the Sligo INTREO office, Cranmore Road, Sligo (details supplied). [39303/24]
Children 1 question
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the progress made on the reopening of a hydrotherapy pool (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38685/24]

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Tourism 1 question
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department has any plans to introduce targeted regional supports for the TV and film production sector, particularly in the northwest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38704/24]
Health 1 question
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if Irish citizens working in the north of Ireland and living in the south of Ireland are entitled to a medical card as a frontline worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38869/24]
Social 1 question
- 2024-10-02 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the income threshold for fuel allowance in order that those in receipt of public service pensions are eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39461/24]