Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 12 Oct

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 12 Oct – 18 Oct 2020 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax

2020-10-13 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 91–53

Voted for 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018

2020-10-13 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Trade Union Act 1941 and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to confer on authorised unions the right to have their representative duties to their …

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A bill to amend the Trade Union Act 1941 and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to confer on authorised unions the right to have their representative duties to their members for collective bargaining and disciplinary matters recognised by employers and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 62–84

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Voted against 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Ciarán Ahern — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Colm Brophy — Fine Gael 2 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Education 2 questions
- 2020-10-14 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education if the grades of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if all factors were considered when awarding the grades; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30474/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education the progress made in respect of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30821/20]
Defence 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Defence the duties undertaken by Óglaigh na hÉireann during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30304/20]
Justice 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice her plans to develop a central register of wills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30172/20]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to address urgently the crisis facing businesses and traders in Dublin city as a consequence of significantly reduced customer footfall, an absence of tourists and the operation of a remote working regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25954/20]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 2 votes · 14 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Health 5 questions
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the policy of the HSE with regard to administrative hospital staff working from home where possible during the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29654/20]
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if occupational therapists and speech and language therapists in Cheeverstown are being reallocated to track and tracing. [30257/20]
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify in respect of SI No. 401 of 2020, which gives permission for pharmacists to administer vaccines outside of a pharmacy premises, if the changes make provision for a pharmacist who is neither a pharmacy owner nor affiliated with any pharmacy to procure independently vaccines from the national cold chain service and subsequently independently make a claim for payment from the Primary Care Reimbursement Service. [30406/20]
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age that have an acquired brain injury, ABI; the person or body that records data on children who have ABI; if the national strategy is for rehabilitation of children who have an ABI; his plans to implement the national strategy; if such a strategy exists for children who have an ABI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30519/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will request the NRDO to report on its initiatives for the treatment and provisions of supports through the HSE to persons that have EDS; the initiatives planned by the NRDO to provide treatment through the HSE for EDS; if the NDRO plans to provide financial support for persons that need treatment for EDS to travel abroad for treatment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30654/20]
Education 4 questions
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will request her officials to provide for the temporary retention of a fourth first class teacher at a school (details supplied) for the duration of the 2020/2021 school year. [30107/20]
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the discussions she has had with the teachers' representatives regarding safety in schools. [29977/20]
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the additional resources being provided to support teaching principals in the context of the Covid-19 crisis. [29978/20]
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of staff in her Department that are working on the report for the Council of Europe on the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ruling in a case (details supplied); the reason the filing of that report was delayed to 8 December 2020; and if outside groups or persons are being consulted in the drafting of the report. [30434/20]
Enterprise 4 questions
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied with the level of funding allocated to his Department for its responsibilities regarding the welfare of workers, for example through the Health and Safety Authority, HSA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30563/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the level of discretion afforded to employers at the different levels of the Living with Covid-19 plan in deciding if work on site is necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30562/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has discussed proposals by unions (detail supplied) to establish a fund to safeguard the redundancy entitlements of workers in the event of a liquidation. [27550/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has made contact with a company (details supplied) and the trade unions to discuss the difficulties staff are having with the company. [27549/20]
Social 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on buying individual portions of bottled water as part of the school lunch programme in DEIS schools; the amount spent per each school involved in the programme; and the average according to the expenditure per student covered in the programme, in tabular form. [30016/20]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Education 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education her plans to reverse the decision to remove a teacher from a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the school is asking for the temporary retention of the teacher until June 2021; her views on whether the removal of the teacher will make it more difficult to maintain social distancing in view of the fact that it will result in four classes of 24 students becoming three classes of 32 students; her further views on whether the disruption caused by the removal of the teacher will have a negative impact on the progress of the students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30178/20]