Dublin Rathdown — week of Mon, 17 May — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin Rathdown TDs did this week

Mon, 17 May – 23 May 2021 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 22 questions · 140 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-05-19 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 43–72

Voted against 3 Catherine Martin · Josepha Madigan · Neale Richmond

Did not vote 3 Maeve O'Connell · Shay Brennan · Sinéad Gibney

Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties

2021-05-19 · 3 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 60–79

Voted against 3 Catherine Martin · Josepha Madigan · Neale Richmond

Did not vote 3 Maeve O'Connell · Shay Brennan · Sinéad Gibney

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 61–79

Voted against 3 Catherine Martin · Josepha Madigan · Neale Richmond

Did not vote 3 Maeve O'Connell · Shay Brennan · Sinéad Gibney

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 61–79

Voted against 3 Catherine Martin · Josepha Madigan · Neale Richmond

Did not vote 3 Maeve O'Connell · Shay Brennan · Sinéad Gibney

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-05-19 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 49–75

Voted against 3 Catherine Martin · Josepha Madigan · Neale Richmond

Did not vote 3 Maeve O'Connell · Shay Brennan · Sinéad Gibney

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 46–74

Voted against 3 Catherine Martin · Josepha Madigan · Neale Richmond

Did not vote 3 Maeve O'Connell · Shay Brennan · Sinéad Gibney

Maeve O'Connell — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Neale Richmond — Fine Gael 6 votes · 22 questions · 45 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 22 total

Foreign 4 questions
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of the work he is carrying out on Belarus; if his Department has engaged with the ambassador regarding the detention of protestors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26348/21]
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has had engagement with his UK counterpart regarding the detention of EU citizens in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26387/21]
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 5 May 2021, his views on whether it is appropriate to engage with the Georgian and Ukrainian Ambassadors regarding their engagement with Dublin City University given that the Ambassadors have sought to engage him on this issue by sending several letters to his Department and other Ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26406/21]
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the Foreign Births Register will reopen; the length of the backlog; the length of time he expects it will take to clear it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26821/21]
Further and Higher Education 4 questions
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland regarding access to Erasmus for students in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25673/21]
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has engaged with the Minister for the Economy in Northern Ireland who stated that it will be up to individual universities to allow for students from Northern Ireland to avail of Erasmus rather than a centralised plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25674/21]
- 2021-05-20 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans are for a return to campus for third-level education for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26124/21]
- 2021-05-20 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the work by his Department to extend the Erasmus plus programme to students in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26125/21]
Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent communication with the President of the European Commission. [23956/21]
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Taoiseach the status of the shared island unit of his Department. [23951/21]
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU social summit in Porto. [26071/21]
Social 3 questions
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the uptake of the paternity benefit scheme; the steps she is taking to encourage the uptake of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26072/21]
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered implementing a pathway for those on the pandemic unemployment payment to go onto the back to work enterprise allowance to support those on the pandemic unemployment payment that have started their own business during the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26745/21]
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Social Protection the options for those on the pandemic unemployment payment that want to apply for the back to work enterprise allowance; if they can apply for the allowance with the security of having their pandemic unemployment payment continue if their application is not successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26746/21]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale behind individual stickers being placed on fruit such as apples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27113/21]
- 2021-05-20 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on food exports to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26467/21]
- 2021-05-20 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the work of his Department to promote trade diversification for Irish food exports post-Brexit to the rest of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26466/21]
Children 2 questions
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding received by an independent fostering agency (details supplied) for providing a section 3 emergency placement service in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25579/21]
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of providing the Tusla run section 3 out-of-hours social work service to counties Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25580/21]
Justice 1 question
- 2021-05-18 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Justice when the short stay visa waiver programme will be recommenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25618/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Transport the status of the discussions related to the CIÉ pensions scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26769/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-05-19 Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Education if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the application of EU circular 0027/2016 and its potential equivalence to teachers in Ireland having worked on a voluntary basis in an Irish school with specific regard to the effect on pay scales; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26797/21]

New lobbying 45 returns

Sisters of Mercy Environment
- The lobbying concerned the Climate Action Bill going through its second stage and being voted on in the DAIL
Mainstream Renewable Power Energy and Natural Resources
- The impact of Brexit on the carrying out of aerial surveys for offshore wind development
Early Childhood Ireland Children and Youth Affairs
- Our Annual Childcare Barometer 2021
Chambers Ireland · 6 returns Energy and Natural Resources · Taxation · Development and Zoning · Public Expenditure and Reform · Local Government
- Offshore Wind
- Remote Working Tax Relief
- Town Centre First Strategy
- Statutory Sick Pay and Redundancy Payments
- Local Government Funding
- Financial supports for businesses and local economies
Premier Lotteries Ireland Designated Activity Company Public Expenditure and Reform
- Briefing on the operation of the National Lottery, and the collection and distribution of Good Causes Funding.
Irish Second-Level Students' Union (ISSU) Children and Youth Affairs
- Vote at 16
Sligo Chamber of Commerce and Industry Public Expenditure and Reform
- Financial supports for business and local economies
Ibec · 4 returns EU Affairs · Trade · Economic Development and Industry
- Future EU policy on exports from this State containing Northern Irish input
- Irish whiskey industry perspective on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
- Investment reboot for Dublin
- Ibec's 2021 Policy Priorities
JKS Communications Development and Zoning
- Designation of SLO in Sandyford
TheCityUK EU Affairs
- Brexit and financial and related professional services industry
Epilepsy Ireland · 2 returns Health
- Thanked Deputies for putting forward parliamentary questions about epilepsy awareness.
- To raise awareness of and seek support for submission to Oireachtas Committee on Disability regarding epilepsy issues.
Trócaire · 2 returns Foreign Affairs
- Vaccine equity, climate and biodiversity, business and human rights and CETA, and Syria
- Vaccine Equity
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) EU Affairs
- Joint letter to Chair, members and clerk requesting that this committee set aside some time to review Ireland’s position on the TRIPS waiver.
Volkswagen Group Ireland Limited Trade
- The sharing of information relevant to the re-opening of "click & collect" in the automotive trade in Ireland
Oxfam Ireland EU Affairs
- Co-signatory to letter requesting that the Joint Oireachtas Committee on EU Affairs review Ireland's position on the TRIPS waiver
Pender & Associates Ltd Children and Youth Affairs
- Reopening and long term sustainability of the early learning and child care sector in Ireland
MSD Health
- Oncology Policy
National Union of Journalists Communications
- Iconic Media need to recognise the union amongst their members
Irish Family Planning Association Health
- National and international policy on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
Irish Cancer Society · 4 returns Health
- Daffodil Day 2021
- Introductory meetings with volunteer Irish Cancer Society grassroots Advocacy Champions
- The financial impact of cancer
- Breastcheck
Cork Chamber Public Expenditure and Reform
- Financial supports for businesses and local economies
Threshold Housing
- Email to the Deputy
Galway Chamber Public Expenditure and Reform
- Financial supports for businesses and local economies
Hanover Media Strategy Limited Finance
- Consumer protection for SMEs whose loans have been sold to unregulated entities
Dublin Chamber of Commerce · 4 returns Economic Development and Industry
- Communication with Dublin oireachtas members on need for Urban plan to renew & support Dublin
- Communication with Dublin Oireachtas members on the Tourism Sector
- Communication on remote and flexible working
- Communication with Fine Gael on extension of EWSS & CRSS
Comhlámh Trade
- Ireland's ratification of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA)
Limerick Chamber Public Expenditure and Reform
- Financial supports for businesses and local economies
Retailers Against Smuggling Finance
- A letter detailing our position ahead of the next phase of Brexit, concerning adverse impact of a Duty Free scheme; greater disparities between the tax and regulatory regimes; and cross-border cooperation.
Amnesty International Ireland Health
- Joint coalition letters to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Joint Committee on EU Affairs re Covid-19 TRIPS waiver

Shay Brennan — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 3 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 3 returns

JKS Communications · 2 returns Development and Zoning
- Designation of SLO in Sandyford
- DLRCC Development Plan + homebuilding reopening
Hume Brophy Transport
- Sustainable Micro Mobility

Sinéad Gibney — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.