Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 5 May

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 5 May – 11 May 2025 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 22 questions · 2 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-05-07 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 88–60

Voted for 3 Eamon Scanlon · Frankie Feighan · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Eamon Scanlon — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Transport 2 questions
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Transport to include the N15 in the revised National Development Plan; to prioritise investment in speed control and other safety measures along the existing N15 route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22500/25]
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Transport for an update on the advancement of the N17 Knock to Collooney road upgrade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22499/25]
Defence 2 questions
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for a report on his attendance at the informal meeting of EU Defence Ministers on 2-3 April 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17690/25]
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if expenditure under Vote 35 is taken into account when calculating Ireland’s defence expenditure as a share of national income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17689/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the processing time for felling licence applications at each stage from submission to completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22956/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the status of a fully staffed community neurorehabilitation team, to address the needs of neurological patients in Sligo-Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22967/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the reason a community neurorehabilitation team, which was promised for Sligo-Leitrim in 2019 and outlined in the 2023 HSE Service Plan, has not yet been established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22968/25]

Frankie Feighan — Fine Gael 1 vote · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Health 7 questions
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a report to Dáil Éireann on the availability of gastrointestinal ultrasound for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in Ireland; the number of IBD patients who received gastrointestinal ultrasound scanning in Ireland in 2024 or an equivalent year; if she recognises the pivotal role of this testing in raising the standards of care and quality of life for IBD patients in Ireland; if she will declare the number of registered gastroenterologists who have been trained in the delivery of gastrointestinal ultrasound; if she agrees that training for clinicians will unlock this key therapeutic benefit for patients; if she will prioritise ensuring that this training will be made available to gastroenterologists; if she will ensure that ultrasound machines will be available at every centre in Ireland where IBD patients receive treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22725/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a report for Dáil Éireann on international and Irish standards of care for women with advanced ovarian cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22726/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the number of women in Ireland diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer annually from 2020 to 2024; to report this information by disease subtype and in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22727/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the progress made to the average wait time for dermatology patients as part of the Waiting List Action Plan 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22728/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of consultant neurologists; when they will be recruited; where they will be based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22729/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of specialist neurology nurses; when they will be recruited; where they will be based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22730/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health for an update on 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; if she will publish interim year-on-year targets for the level of clinical trials activity in Ireland for 2025, 2026 and 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22731/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she can confirm that she has in her role as Minister the discretionary powers to provide for a larger central activities space than the standard size for all SEN bases built in certain cases (details supplied); her views on whether given the scale of an extension granted that this school and others with similar large extensions, would require additional space and a one size fits all central activities space is not practical or safe; and if a school granted funding in this case, can appeal to her Department for consideration for a larger CAS, if an appropriate argument and case can be made. [22249/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is intended to allocate funding to local authorities in 2025 under the local improvement scheme; if he has had any discussions with the Minister for Transport in relation to match funding support for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22253/25]

Marian Harkin — Independent 1 vote · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

The Open Doors Initiative Employment
- Shared the work of ODI and requested meeting with Minister.
Domestic Violence Advocacy Service, Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan. Community
- (i) DVAS Manager received call from TD Marian Harkin requesting update on refuge development. (ii) DVAS Manager met Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, at Cuan event at the Department of Justice.

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Transport 3 questions
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will look into increasing parking spaces at train stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22472/25]
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport for an update on plans to continue the western rail corridor north to Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22471/25]
- 2025-05-08 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport when Irish Rail will restore catering trolley service in the Sligo to Dublin train; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22473/25]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares of land that would fall under condition 63 of Ireland’s State aid approval letter from the commission in relation to afforestation, that is, sensitive habitats such as peat lands and wetlands, as well as areas of high ecological value including areas under high natural value farming are currently under forestry; the number of hectares of that forestry that is owned by Coillte; the number of hectares that are privately owned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22487/25]
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the forgotten famer scheme that was announced in Budget 2025, how the €5 million will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22550/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-05-07 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he plans to disregard farm income from environmental schemes such as ACRES for the purpose of farm assist applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22475/25]