Cork South-Central — week of Mon, 5 Jul — Watch Them Work

What your Cork South-Central TDs did this week

Mon, 5 Jul – 11 Jul 2021 · 5 TDs · 6 bills voted on · 14 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Business of Dáil

2021-07-08 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 68–44

Voted for 1 Michael McGrath

Voted against 1 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Did not vote 4 Jerry Buttimer · Micheál Martin · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-07-08 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 40–70

Voted against 1 Michael McGrath

Did not vote 5 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Micheál Martin · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

The motion · motion passed 101–8

Voted for 1 Michael McGrath

Did not vote 5 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Micheál Martin · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages

2021-07-07 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–59

Voted for 2 Michael McGrath · Micheál Martin

Did not vote 4 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

The motion · motion passed 78–55

Voted for 2 Michael McGrath · Micheál Martin

Did not vote 4 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021

2021-07-07 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended) to provide for a prohibition on rent increases for all existing and new tenancies for three years

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 67–58

Voted for 1 Michael McGrath

Did not vote 5 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Micheál Martin · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

Post Office Network

2021-07-07 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 57–67

Voted against 1 Michael McGrath

Did not vote 5 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Micheál Martin · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-07-06 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 26–19

Voted for 1 Micheál Martin

Did not vote 4 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire · Jerry Buttimer · Pádraig Rice · Séamus McGrath

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 14 questions · 3 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Education 3 questions
- 2021-07-06 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the reason for the changes made in information note TC 0016/2021 which allows a job-sharing teacher to provide substitute cover in their own school only. [35951/21]
- 2021-07-06 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the status of the information requested in Parliamentary Question Nos. 321 of 13 May 2021 and 350 of 25 May 2021. [36030/21]
- 2021-07-06 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the amount allocated in capitation grant funding to primary and secondary schools in 2021; and if this was Covid-19 and or non-Covid-19 spending. [36091/21]
Health 3 questions
- 2021-07-07 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health the funding available to a child (details supplied) for a device. [30249/21]
- 2021-07-07 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health his views on whether all teachers will be vaccinated by September 2021. [30504/21]
- 2021-07-07 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health when all teachers will be fully vaccinated. [30505/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-07-06 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of families and children who received the back to school clothing and footwear allowance in 2020. [36013/21]
- 2021-07-08 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the pilot programme for deaf remote interpreting services on an on demand app (details supplied) has now ceased; and her plans to resume this service on a long-term basis given the very valuable benefit it provided to members of the deaf community, particularly given that another service is limited to 22 minute calls creating difficulties for lengthy calls to services and financial institutions and so on. [37018/21]
Finance 2 questions
- 2021-07-07 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the situation regarding the collapse of a company (details supplied) and that many Irish persons have been affected by this collapse and have lost significant sums of money as a result; and the steps he will take to intervene in relation to same. [36617/21]
- 2021-07-07 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a public inquiry that has been called for in the UK over the collapse of a company (details supplied); and if his Department has examined a similar investigation in this jurisdiction. [36618/21]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2021-07-08 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps he has taken to ensure that students in this jurisdiction looking to study outside of the CAO system are not disadvantaged by the late issuing of leaving certificate results in 2021; and the engagement he has had to ensure that students from Northern Ireland looking to study through CAO are similarly not disadvantaged. [36691/21]
- 2021-07-08 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the situation in 2020 whereby many students who sat the leaving certificate in previous years were pushed out of their CAO course preference due to grade inflation; and the steps he has taken to ensure that these students are not disadvantaged in accessing third-level in 2021. [36690/21]
Children 1 question
- 2021-07-06 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken to progress a thorough investigation of the grounds at the former Bessboro Mother and Baby Home, Cork. [36263/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-07-08 Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department or any organisation measures rental increases within parts of a local electoral area in circumstances in which the area is partially within a rent pressure zone and partially not within a rent pressure zone; and if this information is only gathered for rental increases or decreases for the area as a whole. [37021/21]

New lobbying 3 returns

Autism Spectrum Information, Advice and Meeting Point Ltd, Trading as AsIAm · 3 returns Education and Training · Health
- We undertook a campaign involving meetings, letter writing and phone calls, engaging directly with the Department of Education and Skills, and its Ministers, and other key public officials to secure the re-opening of schools for children with additional needs
- Following the broadcasting of an RTE Investigates on the alleged compiling of dossier on autistic children, engaged in litigation against the State, we met/engaged with the Minister, key officials and public representatives
- In the context of appearing before the Oireachtas Committee on Education, we engaged with member's of that Committee in relation to the EPSEN Act

Jerry Buttimer — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Micheál Martin — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Pádraig Rice — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Séamus McGrath — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.