Dublin Central — week of Mon, 21 Jun — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin Central TDs did this week

Mon, 21 Jun – 27 Jun 2021 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 39 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-06-23 · 3 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 50–74

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 3 Gary Gannon · Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 51–76

Voted for 1 Gary Gannon

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 53–75

Voted for 1 Gary Gannon

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

Regulation of Lobbying (Post-Term Employment as Lobbyist) Bill 2020

2021-06-23 · 1 vote · Labour Party PMB

A bill to make further provision in relation to restrictions on the post-term employment of certain persons as lobbyists, for that purpose to amend the Regulation of Lobbying Ac…

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A bill to make further provision in relation to restrictions on the post-term employment of certain persons as lobbyists, for that purpose to amend the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015, and to provide for related matters.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 75–51

Voted for 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Voted against 1 Gary Gannon

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998

2021-06-23 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 21–77

Voted for 1 Gary Gannon

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

The motion · motion passed 87–7

Voted for 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Abstained 1 Gary Gannon

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009

2021-06-23 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 91–6

Voted for 3 Gary Gannon · Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

Gary Gannon — Social Democrats 6 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Further and Higher Education 7 questions
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant from the current rate of €3,025 to €4,025 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33561/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending a non-adjacent maintenance grant of €3,025 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33562/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant from the current rate of €3,025 to €4,025 and extending this to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33563/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending a non-adjacent maintenance grant of 100% to €4,025 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33564/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the adjacent maintenance grant from €1,215 to €2,215 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33565/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending an adjacent maintenance grant from €1,215 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33566/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending an adjacent maintenance grant from €1,215 to €2,215 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [33567/21]
Tourism 5 questions
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if funding will be made available for a stadium (details supplied); and the details of funding provided by her Department to the stadium in the past five years. [33280/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the measures that are being taken to ensure affordable vacant spaces for artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33283/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has had any communications with the management of a stadium (details supplied) to date; if she will take steps to prevent the sale of the stadium; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33281/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will help to develop and enhance a stadium (details supplied) to ensure women and men's football can continue to play in a modern stadium into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33279/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if specific funding will be provided to enhance and develop sport facilities in the inner-city area of Dublin. [33282/21]
Finance 2 questions
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the lack of transparency surrounding special tax arrangements for multinational companies that Irish companies operating within the same sector cannot avail of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33558/21]
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance if there is a special tax arrangement for larger corporations or market dominant players that allow them to pay a minimal amount of tax to the Exchequer; if his attention has been drawn to any such arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33559/21]
Defence 1 question
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Defence if there are plans to issue an award or medal, similar to that awarded to HSE National Ambulance Service personnel, as a small token to members of the Civil Defence for their tireless and entirely voluntarily contribution to the State's Covid-19 response.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33557/21]
Children 1 question
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make funds available to ensure the preservation of Ireland’s last Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in order that it may be a site of conscience and truth-telling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33556/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-06-23 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the reason for not providing guidance counsellors to special schools; the estimated cost of providing one guidance counsellor to each special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33961/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the priorities of the Government on a sexual and reproductive health policy ahead of the Generation Equality Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33914/21]
Health 1 question
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the progress which has been made to date on reviewing and renewing the national carers’ strategy committed to in the programme for Government. [26433/21]

Marie Sherlock — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mary Lou McDonald — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Health 6 questions
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been identified as eligible for Covid-19 vaccination aged 16 to 59 years who are at high risk group 7; the number of persons in this group that have been invited by their general practitioner to receive a vaccine; and the number of persons in this group that are still awaiting an invitation from their general practitioner. [26363/21]
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the guidelines that have been provided to general practitioners to identify persons who are eligible for Covid-19 vaccination aged 16 to 59 years who are at high risk cohort 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26364/21]
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which persons who are at high risk group 7 under the age of 50 years are being advised that they must wait to register for their online Covid-19 vaccination in line with age cohort groups; if these persons are scheduled to be vaccinated as part of groups 1-7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26365/21]
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the way Covid-19 vaccines will be provided to persons aged 16 to 59 years who are at high risk group in cases in which their own general practitioner has opted out of providing vaccinations for this group; if impacted persons in this group will be contacted to have this information relayed to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26366/21]
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been identified as eligible for Covid-19 vaccination aged 16 to 69 years who are at very high-risk cohort 4; and the number in the cohort who have not yet received a vaccine. [26371/21]
- 2021-06-24 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the process used to identify persons who are eligible for Covid-19 vaccination aged 16 to 69 years who are at very high risk in cohort 4 and not in regular contact with a hospital or a disability service; the number who have now been identified by general practitioners; the number of persons in this group who have now been invited by their general practitioner to receive a vaccination; the number who are still awaiting an invitation to receive a vaccine from their general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26372/21]
Taoiseach 4 questions
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the National Security Committee chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [29521/21]
- 2021-06-23 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the role of his Department in preparing the national economic recovery plan. [33377/21]
- 2021-06-23 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. [31826/21]
- 2021-06-23 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [33087/21]
Education 2 questions
- 2021-06-22 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education when she expects the National Council for Special Education to complete and submit its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools first commissioned in September 2018. [33443/21]
- 2021-06-23 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education the funding streams that are available for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33823/21]

Paschal Donohoe — Fine Gael 7 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns