Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 24 Feb

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Feb – 2 Mar 2025 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 18 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-02-25 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 88–62

Voted for 3 Eamon Scanlon · Frankie Feighan · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Eamon Scanlon — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Transport 2 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide information regarding the potential development of a new bus route to serve Carraroe, its surrounding hinterland, and the Caltragh area of Sligo town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8223/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Transport when catering services on the Sligo-Dublin Irish Rail service will be fully reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8798/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education if she will provide information on the inactive bus transport service in Tubbercurry, County Sligo, which benefitted school students (details supplied); if the service can be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8224/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education if she will review a decision made against the provision of school transport to a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8225/25]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports in place for farmers whose herds are locked up due to TB bovine testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8511/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if landowners who have had damage to their forestry as a result of storm Éowyn can apply for compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8512/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have been made to parents in Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8266/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will report on his Department's humanitarian assistance for those impacted by storm Éowyn in Sligo and in Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8265/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Taoiseach for an update on the establishment of a Cabinet committee on water quality to co-ordinate water quality improvements across all sectors; and when it will hold its first meeting. [6489/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health if she will increase the medical card eligibility threshold from €427 for those working with disabilities so that people can maintain their employment while having access to essential supports such as the medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8782/25]

Frankie Feighan — Fine Gael 1 vote · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Health 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health in relation to the awarding of medical cards to cancer patients; and if she is aware especially in recent months of the refusal by the HSE to award medical cards to some cancer patients who are experiencing stress and hardship because of these decisions. [7210/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the status of the work of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group; when her Department will publish the planned interim report on challenges of conducting trials in Ireland; when it is intended to produce a final report proposing solutions to the issues impacting clinical research in Ireland; and her observations on the way to reduce administrative burdens and improve standardisation in research. [7417/25]
Environment 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide any information regarding the full restoration of broadband and phone communications in rural Ireland, especially in the north-west region in the aftermath of storm Éowyn. [7209/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding paid to applicants to 21 February 2025 under the current humanitarian scheme (section 1) in the aftermath of storm Éowyn in counties Leitrim and Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8796/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to extend the current accommodation recognition payment for hosting refugees from Ukraine beyond 31 March 2025, or if he intends to review the scheme within his Department before the end of March. [8795/25]

Marian Harkin — Independent 1 vote · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Health 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health for an update on the review of the physician associate role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7957/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if urgent consideration will be given to the re-opening of the office of the Revenue Commissioners, Cranmore, Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8738/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8739/25]

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns