Cork North-West — week of Mon, 24 May

What your Cork North-West TDs did this week

Mon, 24 May – 30 May 2021 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 14 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Annexation of Palestine

2021-05-26 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 46–87

Voted against 3 Aindrias Moynihan · Michael Creed · Michael Moynihan

Did not vote 1 John Paul O'Shea

Aindrias Moynihan — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Rural 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason larger counties with larger CLÁR areas are limited to making the same number of applications as much smaller counties with smaller CLÁR areas; if an imbalance against CLÁR area residents in the larger counties is recognised; her plans to review this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27953/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has examined ways to address rural isolation and loneliness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27954/21]
Children 2 questions
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to consider additional allocated time under the early childhood care and education scheme given that the full service under the scheme was not available to children due to Covid-19 restrictions and some children may benefit from this ahead of starting primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28653/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the relevant stakeholders including foster families on the proposed national standards for children’s social services; the future he envisages for the 2003 standards; the role there will be for foster families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28654/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Transport the engagement he has had with the RSA and NDLS to resolve the ongoing issue due to Covid-19 restrictions that have resulted in the current backlog of driver test appointments and driver theory test appointments; when the roll-out of the online theory test will be available to all category A, B and W applicants; the number of applicants it is planned to test each month from now to September 2021 in these categories; the number of new applicants in these categories for both driver test and theory test in County Cork in the preceding 24 months, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28146/21]

John Paul O'Shea — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Michael Moynihan — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 2 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 2 total

Children 2 questions
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Michael Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the roll-out of the pilot vulnerability assessment programme for international protection applicants and plans to establish a vulnerability assessment process as outlined in the White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28736/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Michael Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of Ireland’s plan to sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28737/21]

New lobbying 1 return

P. J. Carroll & Company Ltd Health
- An email to request a meeting to discuss vaping as a less harmful alternative to smoking. Also to discuss how vaping products help many smokers to switch, as the Department of Health’s own figures clearly show: Healthy Ireland survey 2018 showed that 41% of those who successfully quit smoking had used a vaping device to do so.