Meath West — week of Mon, 13 Sept

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Sept – 19 Sept 2021 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 17 questions · 20 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence

2021-09-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 92–59

Voted for 1 Damien English

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Did not vote 1 Aisling Dempsey

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Epilepsy Ireland Health
- Following contact from a constituent, Cllr. French contacted EI to ask how she could support EI's advocacy objectives. Sought that she submit a motion to her council in support of EI's submission to Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters regarding access to Free Travel for people with epilepsy and improved reasonable accommodations for students with epilepsy during state exams. When the motion was introduced, EI contacted all Cllrs seeking support.

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 0 questions · 3 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 3 returns

National Union of Journalists Communications
- Iconic Media need to recognise the union amongst their members
Family Carers Ireland Budgetary matters
- Budget 2022
Technological Universities Association Education and Training
- Submission on Budget 2022

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 1 vote · 17 questions · 6 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Defence 10 questions
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence the reason that he chose not to act when it was brought to his attention in January 2017 through a protected disclosure that a captain was bullied, sexually abused, victimised and discriminated against in the Defence Forces and that he informed the person that their protected disclosure was subjective. [43573/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence the reason he accepted an Ombudsman of the Defence Forces report which ruled that a person (details supplied) was discriminated against given it was later determined by the Workplace Relations Commission that they were discriminated against; and if he has confidence in the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces given the contradiction in the conclusions. [43574/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence if he or his Department have ensured that an independent or external investigation was carried out into sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination within the Defence Forces in Ireland to date; and if not, the reason. [43575/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence if he or his Department will ensure that an independent and external investigation of sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination carried out within the Defence Forces in Ireland to date is carried out. [43576/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence the research and investigation that his Department carried out into sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination carried out within the Defence Forces in Ireland to date. [43577/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence his views on whether there a systemic or institutional difficulty within the Defence Forces in dealing with sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination. [43578/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence the number of complaints, allegations and protected disclosures that have been brought to his attention and the attention of his Department in relation to sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination by serving or former personnel of the Defence Forces in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43579/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence if he has ever met with representatives of those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination within the Defence Forces; and if not, the reason why such a meeting has not taken place. [43580/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence if he will consider an amnesty to be afforded to all those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination in the Defence Forces in order for them to tell their stories anonymously. [43581/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence if he will consider allowing those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination in the Defence Forces the right to access the gardaí and the civil courts in terms of the crimes that they have suffered. [43582/21]
Health 4 questions
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if ICU beds were closed or taken out of use at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in the past six months; if so, when these ICU beds were closed or taken out of use; the reason for same; and the number of fatalities that occurred in the emergency department at the hospital in each month over the past year. [43490/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by his Department and by the board of the HSE to close the emergency department at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan for any hours overnight; the opening times the emergency department would have if the decision was implemented; when the Ireland East Group plan to implement this decision given that Drogheda Hospital and Connolly Hospital are under enormous pressure, that Covid-19 is still circulating in the community and that nearly one million persons are on hospital waiting lists; and his views on whether the decision to seek the overnight closure of the emergency department in Navan is a reckless and dangerous one. [43491/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of cancer deaths in each month for the past five years; and the cancer services that are fully operational or in which scanning, diagnostic and treatment services remain closed or partially closed, respectively. [43618/21]
- 2021-09-16 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing a residential placement for a person (details supplied); the steps being taken to resolve the situation; and when a placement will become available further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 18 February 2021. [44327/21]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the status of the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes final report earlier in 2021. [37869/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if an investigation has been undertaken into the leak at Cabinet (details supplied); if so, the stage this investigation is at; if it has concluded; if not, when it will conclude; and if the results of same have been referred to An Garda Síochána. [43570/21]
Social 1 question
- 2021-09-16 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications that have been made for phenylketonuria; and the number of applications that have been rejected in each of the past five years. [44284/21]

New lobbying 6 returns

Children in Hospital Ireland Health
- Sharing Children in Hospital Ireland’s pre-Budget submission, which calls for the introduction of a new social protection payment to assist parents with the non-medical financial costs associated with prolonged and/or repeated hospital care of a child.
Irish Lung Fibrosis Association Education and Training
- Lobbying for a clinical care programme for pulmonary fibrosis patients
National Union of Journalists Communications
- Iconic Media need to recognise the union amongst their members
Transparency International Ireland Public Expenditure and Reform
- TI Ireland made a presentation and submission to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on the transposition of the EU 'Whistleblowing' Directive and the resulting amendment to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014.
Family Carers Ireland Budgetary matters
- Budget 2022
Technological Universities Association Education and Training
- Submission on Budget 2022