Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 16 Nov

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2020 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 42 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Appointment of Ordinary Member of Standards in Public Office Commission

2020-11-18 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 87–57

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

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes

2020-11-18 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 84–57

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

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

The motion · motion passed 85–57

Voted for 2 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · John Lahart

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 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Defence 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Defence if personnel in full-time induction training can now be deployed on military service; and if they will now be paid the military service allowance. [36618/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Defence the progress in acquiring a strategic airlift capability, particularly in view of recent difficulties and delays on UN rotations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36617/20]
Environment 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the projections for gas imports in the next decade; the main source of gas imported here; if the use of indigenous resources has been considered as opposed to imported gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36178/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the targets set to ensure the national 2050 climate objective as set out in the climate action Bill is being achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36179/20]
Health 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health when a primary care centre (details supplied) is due to open; the services that will be provided at the centre; the estimated number of jobs that will be created at the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36315/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if the national services development plan will commence in 2020; if so, if it will be led by an organisation (details supplied); if the plan will be evidence-based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36949/20]
Public 1 question
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure on health, social welfare and education as a share of GNI* for 2019 and 2020; the estimate for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36664/20]
Justice 1 question
- 2020-11-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36948/20]
Education 1 question
- 2020-11-19 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education if the start date for a school building project (details supplied) will be brought forward to as early a date as is physically and practically possible. [37614/20]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 3 votes · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 24 total

Further and Higher Education 4 questions
- 2020-11-18 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 1 October 2020, his views on whether the requirement by the National University of Ireland Galway for PhD students to make contributions of on average five hours per week over 24 weeks over three academic years without extra payment, breaches the requirement of the same postgraduates to sign a declaration to the Revenue Commissioners that there would be no element of service directly or indirectly between the sponsor and the scholarship recipient or between the colleges university and the scholarship recipient. [37364/20]
- 2020-11-18 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on whether requiring unpaid postgraduate workers to carry out in-person teaching at NUI Galway such as lab demonstrations which cannot be done online during a global pandemic should be regarded as an integral part of the training of a research masters or PhD student. [37365/20]
- 2020-11-18 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 1 October 2020, his views on whether NUI Galway is complying with the obligation of employers and or funders under the European Researchers Charter to ensure that teaching duties are adequately remunerated given the requirement of the university of PhD students to make contributions of on average five hours per week over 24 weeks over three academic years without extra payment. [37366/20]
- 2020-11-18 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if higher educational institutions should comply with the Irish Research Council Government-funded scholarship guideline that where scholars undertake such teaching or demonstration duties as listed that they should be appropriately remunerated by their HEI; if not, if this is optional; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37367/20]
Defence 3 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence if permission will be granted to an association (details supplied) to apply for membership to a body. [36609/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the activities of Ireland under PESCO since its implementation. [36610/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence the reason he has not granted consent to a group (details supplied) to affiliate to a union. [36461/20]
Tourism 3 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will consider bringing forward the date for publication of the 1926 census from 2026 to 2021 in view of the fact this would stimulate interest amongst the Irish diaspora and possibly increase international travel to Ireland in the coming years. [36567/20]
- 2020-11-19 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will consider revising the 100-year rule and bring forward the date for publication of the 1926 Census to 2021. [37322/20]
- 2020-11-19 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the plans in place to support the creative and performing arts community for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis and the recovery period beyond. [37321/20]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with leaders of the Catholic Church on 28 October 2020. [36613/20]
- 2020-11-18 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education is due to meet next. [36611/20]
Public 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department have spent on the use of recruitment agencies for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 to date. [36607/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is planned to review existing lobbying legislation. [36608/20]
Finance 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36879/20]
- 2020-11-19 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will suspend the deduction of stamp duty on debit and credit cards for persons in receipt of State welfare benefits including unemployment or Covid-related payment, sick pay, lone parents benefits, carer's allowance and benefit given that a deduction of almost €30 amounts to 14% of a jobseekers’ or pandemic unemployment payment of €203; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37508/20]
Education 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will direct her officials to provide for the needs of particular children by ensuring that NEPS psychologists, speech and language therapists and art therapists are given access to primary schools in the context of her assertions that primary schools are safe for both children and adults; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36271/20]
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will consider extending the class size reductions planned for DEIS band one senior schools to include DEIS band one junior schools and DEIS band one vertical schools in a context of evidence that class size matters most for younger children; the way in which the currently planned increased investment in DEIS schools is to be transparently allocated; if she will consider allocating an increase in resources and staffing to all DEIS band one schools in the context of the shortages exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36507/20]
Children 2 questions
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36880/20]
- 2020-11-19 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the transfer of refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos to Ireland; the age and sex of the refugees transferred here to date; the dates for future transfers of refugees from Lesvos here; the accommodation provided for recently transferred refugees; the accommodation planned for future refugees coming here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37419/20]
Transport 1 question
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he has received and or read a document from a group (details supplied); if he or officials in the NTA have considered other proposals to the NTA for the terms of reference of the feasibility study to include a continuation of the MetroLink to south-west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36444/20]
Housing 1 question
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, at the proposed end of the current Covid-19 level 5 restrictions on 1 December 2020 and-or when the ban on the implementation of eviction notices ends ten days later, he will extend the ban on the implementation of eviction notices until such time as all level 2, 3 and 4 Covid-19 restrictions are also lifted in order that tenants that face the threat of eviction from 10 December 2020 are not made homeless due to the fact that they are not allowed visit the homes of prospective landlords with a view to renting alternative shared accommodation on account of the restrictions on visits by non-household members and to non-household members under levels 2, 3 and 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36917/20]
Justice 1 question
- 2020-11-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36881/20]
Foreign 1 question
- 2020-11-18 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent death in an Israeli prison of a Palestinian detainee (details supplied) who died from the medical negligence of their cancer; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the Israeli state has also withheld their remains from their family in an act of collective punishment; if he will write to the Israeli Ambassador in Ireland to call upon the government of Israel to immediately release the remains of the person to their family for a proper funeral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37357/20]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns