Kildare North — week of Mon, 19 Apr

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Mon, 19 Apr – 25 Apr 2021 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 105 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-04-21 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 41–3

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 4 Aidan Farrelly · James Lawless · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Order for Second Stage

2021-04-21 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 19–2

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 4 Aidan Farrelly · James Lawless · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

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 · 13 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 13 total

Health 6 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health the reason transfer of services between counties was delayed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18481/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health his plans for HSE owned land at Coille Dios estate, Athboy, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18482/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health the procedure to be followed in relation to the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18549/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to an ophthalmologist (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19123/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19249/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if an appointment with an orthopaedic consultant for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20665/21]
Public 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the key recommendations for his Department of the recent report Supporting Excellence: Capital Project and Programme Delivery Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20399/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of Ireland’s capital expenditure as a proportion of GNI* in 2021; the way this compares to the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20400/21]
Transport 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if there are plans to make the driver theory test available to take online which would allow the applicants to go ahead and take their test and reduce the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18806/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport his plans to recruit more testers for driver tests to help get through the backlog of applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18812/21]
Environment 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps a person (details supplied) can take in a situation in which a person does not have an allocated Eircode and therefore cannot obtain a broadband connection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18351/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education the age limit for a primary school caretaker (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18761/21]
Social 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection the legal basis for demanding the public services card for other public services in view of the Data Protection Commission report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18760/21]

New lobbying 1 return

Human Life International Ireland Justice and Equality
- Made a submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Justice submissions re: the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020

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 2 votes · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Health 6 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will prioritise all pharmacy staff for vaccination in which pharmacies will become central to vaccine roll-out not just pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18376/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health when clarity will be provided to couples planning weddings in May 2021 as to their guest numbers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18577/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if fully vaccinated persons with clear tests will be exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18814/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his recent decision to prioritise vaccinations based on age took full account of the cascade effect in schools in which Covid-related teacher absences and the saturation of the substitute panel with requests is seeing special needs pupils frequently deprived of teachers forced to redeploy to cover such class teacher absences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18816/21]
- 2021-04-22 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if there are pregnant women ill with Covid-19 who are currently on life-support or other critical care in a hospital either for their own care and or in order to advance their pregnancies to safe delivery of their babies; if so, the number of women affected from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to date; the strains of Covid-19 involved; the number of hospitals involved in care and transfer, both maternity and general; the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20930/21]
- 2021-04-22 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if new information or clinical presentations are emerging here suggesting that pregnancy does or could put women at particular or greater risk of serious complications or severe illness from Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20951/21]
Education 3 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the steps she can take to assist parents urgently seeking places for younger siblings in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18629/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the cascade aspect of teacher absences in the context of Covid-19 in which the substitute panel is saturated with requests, thereby seeing special needs teachers frequently being required to take over absentee teacher class duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18815/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the rationale for the new revised section 29 appeals process (details supplied); the way in which this revision and demand fit the best interest of the child principle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19909/21]