Catherine Ardagh

Fianna Fáil · Dublin South-Central

Activity on Community — 26 events (16 lobbying · 9 questions · 1 votes) full profile →

• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the specific measures which will be put in place to protect the independent, community-led role of Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces under the proposed regional governance arrangements in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17966/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health whether, under the proposed regional structures in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, all public funding for community-based drug services, including Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces, will be pooled at HSE Health Region level; the safeguards which will be put in place to prevent dilution of funding to areas of high deprivation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17968/26]
• 2026-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the way in which the independent, community-led nature, and preventative role, of Task Forces will be protected in the new proposed regional structures under the National Drugs Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8360/26]
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Community Platform Finance

  • Emailed all Ministers, TDs and Senators with a copy of the Community Platform’s Four Tests for Budget 2026 asking them to support these proposals in the run up to the announcement of Budget 2026.
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Society of St. Vincent de Paul Social Protection

  • Engagement with Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Family Carers Ireland Community

  • FCI Pre-Budget Submissions 2026
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  Merchants QuayIreland Ltd Community

  • Proposals re drug treatment, homelessness, mental health and related matters
• 2025-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if members of the Oireachtas are automatically members of community safety partnership; if not, the arrangements which have been made to allow Members of the Oireachtas participate in community safety partnerships. [73198/25]
• 2025-12-10
  VOTE
  Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2021

  A bill to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Coimisiún Náisiúnta um Thrasdul Cóir or, in the English language, the National Just Transition Commission to oversee the bringing together of workers, communities, employers and government in social dialogue to drive the plans, policies and investments needed for a fair transformation to a low-carbon economy; to require the preparation, by certain prescribed bodies, of just transition plans; to provide for the conferral of other functions on the said body; to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended by the 2021 Act); and to provide for related matters.

  • ✗ voted to block the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion failed · 64–72
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which funding for respite in each community healthcare organisation has changed over the past five years, with particular reference to CHO7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56851/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will introduce a national recruitment and retention strategy specific to respite and community support services for children with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56861/25]
• 2025-10-15
  LOBBY
  St Michael's House Group Community

  • St Michael's House Lobbying
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Family Carers Ireland 2 returns Community

  • FCI Pre- Budget Submissions 2026
  • Programme for government- to advance carers issues within the Dáil
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Outhouse CLG Justice and Equality

  • Shared key priorities and issues affecting the LGBTQ+ Community this Pride
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  The Wheel Community

  • The Wheel hosted launch event for our Pre-Budget Submission 2026. It comprised a panel discussion with speakers from community and voluntary organisations and an overview of The Wheel's priorities for Budget 2026. We invited Ministers, TDs and Senators from the most relevant departments and joint Oireachtas committees and several attended in person.
• 2025-09-17
  LOBBY
  European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland Social Protection

  • Emails to Members of the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community & Local Development requesting to put combatting poverty at the top of the committees agenda, with particular reference to income adequacy, accessible public services & measures targeted at the most disadvantaged groups
• 2025-09-16
  LOBBY
  Merchants QuayIreland Ltd Community

  • Proposals re drug treatment, homelessness, mental health and related matters
• 2025-09-08
  LOBBY
  Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) Education and Training

  • Decision to transition Synge Street CBS to a Gaelcholáiste
• 2025-09-05
  LOBBY
  Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland Community

  • Lobbying regarding SERI's pre-budget submission and AI
• 2025-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Rural

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht his views on the recently published 2024 Annual Report of An Coimisinéir Teanga. [37916/25]
• 2025-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Rural

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the action he is taking to support the teaching of Irish in universities outside the island of Ireland. [37915/25]
• 2025-05-21
  LOBBY
  Autism Spectrum Information, Advice and Meeting Point Ltd, Trading as AsIAm Children and Youth Affairs

  • Meeting of the Parliamentary Group on Autism
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Finance if he will review the requirement for State agencies and public bodies to pay residential zoned land tax, in light of concerns that the imposition of these tariffs on publicly owned lands, particularly those designated for long-term or strategic community and public service use, is having an adverse impact on the financial capacity of those agencies to deliver core services; if he will outline whether exemptions or revised criteria are being considered to prevent unintended consequences that undermine public service delivery or long-term land management strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25050/25]
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  Family Carers Ireland 2 returns Community

  • Encourage DPO's to attend Hustings event re Carer issues held by FCI in advance of the General Election
  • FCI Pre- Budget Submissions
• 2025-01-13
  LOBBY
  Arthur Edward Guinness Community

  • Return to public purposefulness for The Iveagh Markets (heritage real estate) which have become neglected
• 2024-09-26
  LOBBY
  National Traveller MABS Finance

  • An copy of NTMABS research report into financial literacy in the Traveller community was sent via email to all T.D.'s and Senators