Kildare North — week of Mon, 15 Feb

Aidan Farrelly — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

James Lawless — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Social 3 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to extend child benefit to cover the period in which the child remains in full-time education even in cases in which the child is over 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8303/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the eligibility of a person (details supplied) to an interim payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8671/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the changing of a PPS number of a person (details attached); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8965/21]
Health 2 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can obtain access to a vaccine based on compassionate grounds. [8735/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health the status of a medical card for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9044/21]
Environment 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will examine the broadband connectivity issues that are occurring in Blackhall, Clane, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8233/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in relation to the driver licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8733/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education the current retirement age for bus drivers on school contracts (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8680/21]
Children 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a statutory redress or other compensation scheme will be made available to the mother and baby home former residents; if so, the timeline for such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8442/21]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if consideration will be given to matters raised (details supplied) concerning unemployment and skills upgrading; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8679/21]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is confident that every foal is being issued with an equine passport; the checks and regulations being made to ensure that this is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8225/21]

Joe Neville — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Naoise Ó Cearúil — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Réada Cronin — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Health 5 questions
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the systems in place under the Covid-19 national vaccination strategy to address conscientious objection by doctors to vaccine administration; the reassurances his Department can give patients that this not-unexpected development has been factored into the planning, delivery and communication of that strategy; the guarantees he can give persons that conscientious objection will not impede them in their direct access to the vaccine locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9066/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the public information strategy in place or planned to address comprehensively the safety issues raised in conscientious objection by doctors in order to maximise public trust and public confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines for the best possible public health outcome in the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9067/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to doctors here refusing to refer patients for Covid-19 testing due to deeply held beliefs regarding the virus; the public health systems in place to address a possible refusal to refer patients for testing for any disease on a personal belief basis, including for a virus causing a pandemic; his views on whether a refusal to refer patients for Covid-19 or other testing due to personal beliefs and against prevailing public health advice as constituting an unnecessary and avoidable risk and potential hazard to public health, particularly in a pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9068/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have notified his Department, the HSE or other relevant body of their intention not to vaccinate patients against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9069/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the risk assessment that was presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet with regard to building sites and Covid-19 transmission; if a cost-benefit analysis of closure was undertaken and presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet; the information on which public health officials work in relation to Covid-19 transmission in the construction industry vis-à-vis- that used by their European counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9270/21]
Finance 3 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to waive taxation arising out of the pandemic unemployment payment given the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic and the consequent sacrifice and financial suffering endured by persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8832/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will extend over a suitably long period the amount of extra taxation due over pandemic unemployment payments to assist workers and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8833/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to protect consumers in relation to the matter of banks (details supplied) giving notice that negative interest rate charges are to apply to solicitor client accounts in conveyancing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8929/21]
Housing 3 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the necessary review of HAP rates will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff and ancillary agency staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8831/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all local authority workers who can work from home are being facilitated in that matter; the checks he has put in place to verify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9307/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid and the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment to date; the amount that has been overpaid; the number of persons who have been overpaid; the systems in place to assist persons to repay possible overpayments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8837/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8838/21]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the safeguards in place to uphold Ireland’s responsibilities under the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to prevent Ireland being party to or becoming entangled in a supply chain dispute on labour given the status of the State as a hub for global supply chains (details supplied). [7875/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the way in which the use of e-scooters on public pathways used by pedestrians can be monitored and policed in terms of space and speed and the safety of pedestrians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7874/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland’s seat on the UN Security Council and reputation on international aid will be used to secure the health of the interconnected world by spearheading and championing the swift distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to poorer countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8834/21]

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Votes this week

Questions asked 11 total

Questions asked 16 total