Dún Laoghaire — week of Mon, 14 Dec — Watch Them Work

What your Dún Laoghaire TDs did this week

Mon, 14 Dec – 20 Dec 2020 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 64 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

2020-12-16 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 52–80

Voted for 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 52–79

Voted for 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions

2020-12-16 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 78–59

Voted for 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018

2020-12-16 · 1 vote · Independent PMB

A bill to prohibit sulky racing where no lawful permission has been granted

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 57–75

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Abstained 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2020-12-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 25–20

Voted for 2 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

Barry Ward — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Cormac Devlin — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 24 total

Enterprise 5 questions
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown that have received support under the restart and restart grant plus schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43788/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the key measures under the Action Plan for Insurance Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43787/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the review of examinership by the CLRG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44127/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of legislation to transpose the ECN plus directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44128/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the implementation of the Duffy-Cahill report and on efforts to resolve a dispute at a company (details supplied). [37038/20]
Transport 4 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport the schemes, grants and supports in place in his Department for car rental firms, in particular for their extensive fleets of cars that have not been utilised during the pandemic; and if further supports are under consideration for such companies. [43014/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport if he will address the anomaly with applications for the over-70s driver licence given that a five-year licence can be accessed by post but a ten-year licence requires the applicant to attend in person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43015/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport if he will request the NTA to arrange a limited Nitelink service over the Christmas 2020 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43020/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider extending the deadline for scrapping older hackney or taxi vehicles given Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43615/20]
Finance 3 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Finance the schemes, grants and supports in place in his Department for car rental firms; and if there are further measures under consideration for such companies. [43008/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending regulations with regard to local property tax to allow more flexibility for persons who have been in receipt of Covid-19 payments for more than six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43013/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Finance the efforts his officials have made in view of the revised ECB guidance on Covid-19 moratoria for loans to ensure this is being implemented for businesses and consumers in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43042/20]
Justice 3 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43016/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43041/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider publishing media advertisements in the run-up to Christmas regarding the dangers of illegal scrambler use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43614/20]
Health 3 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the changes arising from budget 2021 in relation to specific supports for persons suffering from Parkinson's; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43044/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43612/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the position on the benefit of wearing masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19, including the latest international data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43613/20]
Tourism 2 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will consider allowing instrumental music at weddings under strict regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43009/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will consider allowing 50 persons to attend weddings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43010/20]
Social 2 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the processing of PPSN applications (details supplied); her plans to resume normal operations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43046/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43047/20]
Housing 1 question
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to review the urban development and building heights guidelines for planning authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43043/20]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the supports in place for postgraduate students given Covid-19 regulations around face-to-face learning, and in particular if institutions will consider a refund of fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43045/20]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill — Fine Gael 5 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has received allegations of sexual harassment at third level; his plans to extend consent information across third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43152/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to extend third level and apprenticeship opportunities for persons with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43151/20]
Rural 2 questions
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the organisations in Dublin that have benefited in 2020 from the community enhancement programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43811/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the new volunteering strategy; her plans to implement same; the level of engagement with communities in its development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43812/20]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to progress the programme for Government commitment to enable regulatory bodies such as ComReg, the Central Bank and the CCPC to have greater use of administrative penalties to sanction rogue operators, as is the norm in other EU Member States; when he expects the Competition Bill (ECN+) to be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43816/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that have been provided to enable the Workplace Relations Commission to function at the optimum level during the Covid-19 pandemic given the importance of its work and the cases that it is dealing with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43817/20]

Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity 5 votes · 34 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 34 total

Health 12 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the different supports available to keep elderly persons in their homes for as long as possible and the way in which to access those supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42846/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the numbers of teachers, special needs assistants and classroom assistants who have contracted Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43038/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if the Traveller community has been given consideration in the different levels of the vaccination roll out plan; the position of same if they are considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43847/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if the orthopaedic clinic in St. Vincent's University Hospital is open; if not, when it will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44007/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when he plans to extend the pay restoration that has commenced for 50 section 39 organisations to the remaining 250 similar organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44289/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he plans to meet with a person (details supplied) to address a matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44156/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the status of discussions and or meetings and or correspondence he has had with an organisation (details supplied) with regards to its announcement that it will be withdrawing from its disability and mental health services in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44222/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the plans he has to ensure that residents that were in a facility (details supplied) are housed appropriately after the closure of the facility on Merrion Road, Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44223/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the reason a non-EU national junior doctor does not have the same access to training programmes as EU junior doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44226/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if sufficient mental health supports will be put in place in advance of the publication of the report of the commission of inquiry to include all adoptees and survivors and not just those who could participate in the commission's inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44239/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if the business practice of cold-calling in person to persons' homes is permitted during Covid-19 restrictions; if it is provided for within the levels for the plan for living with Covid-19; if so, the levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44473/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the reason vulnerable persons under 70 years of age with underlining conditions such as leukaemia that fall into the HSE defined very high risk from Covid-19 are not in the same group as the over 70s for the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44507/20]
Taoiseach 7 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the progress of his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [43544/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [43545/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of the high-level task force on Covid-19 vaccination. [43546/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [43542/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [43543/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he has read the recent NESC publication entitled The Position of the Self-Employed. [42006/20]
- 2020-12-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he has read the recent NESC publication entitled Housing Policy: Actions to Deliver Change. [42007/20]
Further and Higher Education 6 questions
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will establish a payment or bursary system for students of nursing and midwifery in the interests of encouraging more students to study nursing and midwifery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43417/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will examine a payment or bursary system to ensure that nursing and midwifery graduates are not graduating with high levels of debt given the high level of emigration by graduate nurses and midwives; if he will address the lower level of pay for these graduates compared to graduates of other healthcare disciplines with whom many of them share classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43422/20]
- 2020-12-15 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the rationale for charging fees of over €15,000 per year for graduate entry medicine courses, which means that many students who finish the course leave university with loans of up to €100,000, and in turn results in emigration and exacerbates staff shortages in medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43423/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a no-detriment, no-disadvantage policy will be established in all third level institutions with regard to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; if no student will disadvantaged educationally, mentally or financially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44220/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has spoken to the governing authority of University College Dublin on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44221/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will work with third level institutions to ensure that persons pursuing a degree in art and design are not subject to materials levies for materials that are necessary for their degree work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44225/20]
Education 5 questions
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the medium-term plan for new schools in the Dún Laoghaire area, including primary and secondary schools; the patron bodies that are involved; the catchment areas; the estimated completion date of permanent schools; the interim plans for these schools, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44215/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the properties owned by her Department in the wider Dún Laoghaire area; the plans for these sites; the way they fit into the established need for primary and secondary schools in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44216/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will commit to a date by which a school (details supplied) will have a permanent site for the school; if there are other schools also in the Blackrock Booterstown district that are also seeking a permanent location; if so, if they have a priority ahead of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44217/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if sites have already been examined by her Department for a permanent building and deemed inappropriate for a school (details supplied); if so, the location of the sites; the details of the issues with them that deemed them inappropriate; the primary, non-Covid related barrier preventing a new school location being confirmed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44218/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the general location for all sites under consideration for the permanent relocation of a school (details supplied); if the sites are within the community of Blackrock Booterstown in view of the fact that the community of same voted for the patronage of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44219/20]
Housing 2 questions
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants at a location (details supplied) are not evicted; if he will further explore taking the whole apartment block into public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44224/20]
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the legal situation with regard to adverse possession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44291/20]
Transport 1 question
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will meet representatives of the car rental industry to find solutions for Covid-19-related issues in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44287/20]
Children 1 question
- 2020-12-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if counselling and support services will be available to all of those who will potentially be impacted by the publication of the mother and baby homes report on 11 January 2021; if it will be ensured that these services are advertised widely and that those affected will be directly contacted with details of the locations the services are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44288/20]