Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 17 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Feb – 23 Feb 2025 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 19 questions · 5 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages

2025-02-19 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 101–55

Voted for 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Provision of Special Education

2025-02-19 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 87–69

Voted for 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

The motion · motion passed 87–70

Voted for 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Housing Crisis

2025-02-19 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–69

Voted for 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

The motion · motion passed 88–69

Voted for 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-02-18 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 84–67

Voted for 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Kevin Boxer Moran — Independent 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Micheál Carrigy — Fine Gael 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Peter Burke — Fine Gael 6 votes · 0 questions · 5 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 5 returns

Tralee Chamber Alliance · 5 returns Taxation · Economic Development and Industry · Defence · Transport · Education and Training
- Strengthening Tralee's Future: Business, Connectivity & Education meeting with Minister Peter Burke
- Strengthening Tralee's Future: Business, Connectivity & Education meeting with Minister Peter Burke
- Strengthening Tralee's Future: Business, Connectivity & Education meeting with Minister Peter Burke
- Strengthening Tralee's Future: Business, Connectivity & Education meeting with Minister Peter Burke
- Strengthening Tralee's Future: Business, Connectivity & Education meeting with Minister Peter Burke

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Health 3 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if home help supports will be expedited for a person (details Supplied). [5739/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when the diabetic nurses and podiatrist will be replaced in the primary care unit in Mullingar. [5918/25]
- 2025-02-19 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if home help hours will urgently be put in place for a person (details supplied). [6508/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) is allocated a place in a facility. [5767/25]
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if more schools in the Crowenstown, Delvin, Collinstown, Castlepollard and Fore areas of Westmeath have been sanctioned to open an ASD class for 2025/2026. [7046/25]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is currently being given to any form of work permit amnesty for employers who have inadvertently hired staff who have incorrect status, specifically in sectors which are currently struggling to source staff through the correct channels due to the labour shortage. [6057/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice if a paper form citizenship application can still be obtained; and if not, if all applications are required to go through the online portal. [6135/25]
Environment 1 question
- 2025-02-19 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will urgently intervene to ensure a connection issue (details supplied) is repaired in a more timely manner than is currently being indicated. [6613/25]

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Education 3 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education to consider extending the pilots for enhanced in-school therapy supports to special schools in the midlands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5926/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education how the effectiveness and outcomes of the pilots for enhanced in-school therapy supports to special schools in the midlands are being monitored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5927/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if more schools in an area (details supplied) have been sanctioned to open an ASD class for 2025/2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5985/25]
Health 3 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health following the publishing of the National Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period, if she will provide an update on any progress that has been made in relation to the development of a multi-component education and training programme for the multi-disciplinary team. [5881/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health regarding the National Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period, when training will be mandatory for the awareness, screening, recognising, responding and referring of domestic violence for all midwives, nurses, doctors and health and social care professionals and students working in maternity settings; if there will be a body that maintains records of staff training; if there will be an audit and evaluation of training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5882/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health how she is going to ensure that the National Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period are fully implemented; and how she plans on monitoring both its effectiveness and adoption. [5883/25]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Taoiseach if he will establish a citizens’ assembly on Irish unity. [5435/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Taoiseach if all participants in the Covid inquiry are being directed to the Protected Disclosures Commissioner. [5703/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-02-19 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the number of bench warrants outstanding, per Garda region, per county, as of 14 February 2025, in tabular form. [6574/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-02-19 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has had any meetings, engagements or correspondence with any third parties on the potential of providing third-level courses in either new-build or expansion of current providers via satellite venues or similar in Mullingar or anywhere else in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6614/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will address issues with the reliability and accessibility of disability services in Longford; such as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6878/25]