Tipperary North — week of Mon, 22 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Tipperary North TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Mar – 28 Mar 2021 · 3 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 32 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-03-25 · 3 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 52–79

Voted for 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 56–78

Voted for 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

The motion · motion passed 80–57

Voted against 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-03-25 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 55–83

Voted for 1 Alan Kelly

Voted against 1 Michael Lowry

Did not vote 1 Ryan O'Meara

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 58–83

Voted for 1 Alan Kelly

Voted against 1 Michael Lowry

Did not vote 1 Ryan O'Meara

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education

2021-03-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 84–56

Voted for 1 Michael Lowry

Voted against 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 1 Ryan O'Meara

Alan Kelly — Labour Party 6 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Health 5 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of births that were by caesarean section in each hospital in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14075/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if there are hospitals which have a significantly higher rate of caesarean section deliveries than the national average; and if so, the steps the HSE or HIQA are conducting to ascertain the reason for this. [14076/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of the adult population by county who are not registered with a general practitioner. [14276/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the latest projected timetable for the delivery of the new St. Conlon’s nursing home, Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14976/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when the vacancies on the board of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will be fully filled. [15364/21]
Education 4 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the reason National Education Psychological Service psychologists cannot assess students in school environments when schools are reopened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15660/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the number of National Educational Psychological Service psychologists in full-time employment by county as of March 2021 (details supplied). [15661/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the number of psychological assessments under the National Educational Psychological Service that were conducted in schools in County Tipperary in 2020. [15662/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education if psychological assessments are being undertaken for primary students since schools reopened; and if so, the number by county and week since 1 March 2021. [15663/21]
Transport 3 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport if he will instruct Transport Infrastructure Ireland to carry out a road surface review of the M7 between Nenagh and Birdhill, County Tipperary, due to the large number of accidents on that stretch of road. [15414/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of vacancies that have occurred on the board of the Port of Cork since 1 January 2020; the number of vacancies that have been filled by reappointment of outgoing members; the number filled following applications received via an appointments process; the reason some vacancies have been filled by reappointments and others not; his views on whether such an approach is both arbitrary and discriminatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14966/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport if he or his advisers received communications, verbally or in writing from other Ministers or their advisers, regarding the appointment or reappointment of members of the board of the Port of Cork; if so, if he will publish the details of such communications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14967/21]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met; and when it will next meet. [14479/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach the dates on which he spoke to companies (details supplied) about vaccine provision in tabular form. [14592/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the allocations that have been made under the urban regeneration and development fund. [15895/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the Passport Office will reopen; and the reason online applications cannot be processed at this time. [14562/21]

Michael Lowry — Independent 3 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Agriculture 7 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capacity output if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of his Department as reflected in the weekly dashboard is not capacity output under its current resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15011/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 10 March 2021, if he is stating that the forestry sector is not a relevant stakeholder with regard to the CAP strategic plan; if the forest sector, which is a section of his Department, is not a part of the CAP process regardless of the way in which it is funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15012/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1014 of 10 March 2021, his views on whether not including afforestation initiatives in the pilot agri-environment scheme will further disincentivise afforestation among the farming community; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the GLAS and afforestation schemes were and remain competing schemes and were not complementary to each other and that this fact contributed significantly to the demise of the afforestation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15013/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of his Department as reflected in the weekly dashboard is the actual capacity output of his Department under its current resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15014/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 10 March 2021, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that he has excluded the entire private forestry sector and appears to be reliant on his officials who have presided over the demise of the current forestry programme under the current CAP in his reference to all relevant stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15015/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of weekly full-time equivalent ecologists working in the forest service of his Department since June 2019 including the ecologists who are subcontracted by the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15017/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 10 March 2021, if he will review the answer provided given that the question did not ask for the departmental target but the number of licence and scheme approvals his Department must issue each year in order to deliver on targets; if he is stating that the target of 4,500 new licences in 2021 is sufficient to meet targets for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15018/21]
Transport 4 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Transport his views on Bus Éireann's plans to withdraw the Expressway services on the N7 and N8 routes in the near future (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1355/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Transport the reason for the current delay in the issuing of driving licence cards to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1356/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Transport the position on the provision of a ring road in Tipperary town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1353/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Transport the position on the delays being experienced by essential workers who have applied to sit a driving test (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1354/21]
Health 4 questions
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of student radiographers (details supplied) to allow same to put forward a request for the development of standardised allowances, placement grants and payment for work carried out while on student placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14187/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite funding and approval for patisiran Onpattro or an equivalent drug used to manage the condition hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14857/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite the vaccination of special educational staff who work and teach some of the most vulnerable children in the special education sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14996/21]
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite the vaccination of special educational staff who work and teach some of the most vulnerable children in the special education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15016/21]
Social 1 question
- 2021-03-24 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason those in receipt of the carer’s allowance cannot avail of the fuel allowance; if the criteria for receiving the fuel allowance will be reviewed and amended to automatically include persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance as a qualifying payment; if this request will be considered in the overall policy and budgetary context; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14305/21]

Ryan O'Meara — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.