Kildare North — week of Mon, 11 Oct

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Mon, 11 Oct – 17 Oct 2021 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 121 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax

2021-10-12 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–87

Voted for 1 Réada Cronin

Voted against 3 Bernard Durkan · Catherine Murphy · James Lawless

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

The motion · motion passed 87–47

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 1 Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Aidan Farrelly — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

James Lawless — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Foreign 2 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49130/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will examine the applications of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49203/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49091/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for non-contributory pensions was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49426/21]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to address a matter (details supplied) in relation to vaccinations in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49891/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if he will examine the delay in the processing of a licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49384/21]
Health 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will examine an urgent case in which home help hours are urgently required by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49344/21]
Rural 1 question
- 2021-10-14 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of broadband connection points across Ireland. [50160/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-10-14 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding land allocations for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50184/21]

Joe Neville — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Naoise Ó Cearúil — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Réada Cronin — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 22 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 22 total

Health 10 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the initiatives his Department is undertaking to tackle the crisis in primary care whereby general practitioners' practices in north County Kildare and elsewhere are full and cannot accept new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49160/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Kildare on waiting lists in each of the past five years in tabular form (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49161/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of scripts for anti-anxiety medication and separately anti-depressant medication written and dispensed in County Kildare in each of the past five years in tabular form; the number of patients involved; the cost to the Exchequer of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49162/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of scripts for anti-anxiety and separately anti-depressant medication written in Ireland in each of the past five years in tabular form; the number of patients involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49163/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the annual cost to the Exchequer of anti-anxiety and separately anti-depressant medication in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49164/21]
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for treatment at Naas General Hospital in each of the past five years; the number waiting for lengths greater than three and six months and one and two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49968/21]
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if Naas General Hospital is operating with its full complement of medical staff; if not, the number and kind of medical staff missing, for example, general nursing, specialist nursing, physiotherapy, radiology, surgical, consultant and so on; the length of time these roles or posts have been unfilled; his plans to fill same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49969/21]
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if according to best public health practice and per population County Kildare has sufficient numbers of general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49970/21]
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of public healthcare workers in County Kildare at all levels of the health service that are or have been on sick leave or extended leave due to work conditions and stress or injury in each of the past five years and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49971/21]
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of public healthcare workers at all levels of the health service that are or have been on sick leave or extended leave due to work conditions and stress or injury in each of the past five years and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49972/21]
Children 9 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid to a company (details supplied) annually; the number of children involved in each of the years the company was contracted in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49114/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the fee paid to a company (details supplied) per child per night for emergency foster care; the amount paid to each emergency foster carer per child per night; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49115/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a system in place by which professionals paid by the State or in agencies contracted by the State must carry an emergency pack for delivery of children into emergency foster care to include the basics of travel cot, nappies for babies, pull-ups for toddlers and food; if not, if he will make such a provision a basic requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49116/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will view toddlers and babies being delivered to emergency foster care with no cot, food or nappies provided for the night; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49117/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a risk assessment has yet to be carried out in a case (details supplied); if he will raise the issue with Tusla as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49918/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the case of a child (details supplied) currently has no social worker appointed to it given that the previous worker on the case left; if he will raise this with Tusla as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49919/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of alleged perpetrator risk assessments for sexual abuse required and pending in each area in tabular form; the length of time each assessment is pending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49920/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently without a designated social worker; the length of time they have been waiting for same; the number of these that are in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49921/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children without a designated social worker in each of the past three years in each area in tabular form; the length of time each was without a designated social worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49922/21]
Justice 3 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice if she will establish an investigation into (Details Supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49118/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice if she will establish an investigation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49119/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice if she will investigate (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49120/21]