Limerick City — week of Mon, 11 Oct

What your Limerick City TDs did this week

Mon, 11 Oct – 17 Oct 2021 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 14 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 Maurice Quinlivan

Voted against 3 Brian Leddin · Kieran O'Donnell · Willie O'Dea

Did not vote 1 Conor Sheehan

The motion · motion passed 87–47

Voted for 3 Brian Leddin · Kieran O'Donnell · Willie O'Dea

Voted against 1 Maurice Quinlivan

Did not vote 1 Conor Sheehan

Conor Sheehan — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Kieran O'Donnell — Fine Gael 2 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Health 2 questions
- 2021-10-14 Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50261/21]
- 2021-10-14 Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Health his views on the need for a national diabetes register; the reason there is no current register (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50262/21]
Defence 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Defence if paid leave is provided to compensate for the period following overseas Army assignments abroad, independent of the normal annual leave entitlement of Army personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49523/21]
Social 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered a pre-budget submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49390/21]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way the funding for capital works and equipment at higher and further education institutions in Limerick will be disbursed; and if the funding will be put to use in the 2021-2022 academic year. [49853/21]

Maurice Quinlivan — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Health 2 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for over six months to see a surgeon at University Hospital Limerick to address a debilitating incisional hernia; when they can expect to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49215/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the shortage of neurology nurses in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49705/21]

Willie O'Dea — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Health 5 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes aged 18 years and over who are waiting on a first appointment to the outpatients diabetes clinic in any of the UHL groups; the number of those persons who are waiting six to 12, 12 to 18 and 18 to 24 months, two to four and over five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49549/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if University Limerick Hospitals Group is included in the remaining six diabetes centres to become dose adjusting for normal eating licensed in 2022; if a centre in the mid-west is included in the remaining six centres becoming licensed in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49619/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding in budget 2022 to provide a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse for the adult diabetes clinic in the University Limerick Hospitals Group to enable insulin pump therapy initiation for persons who are clinically suited to this treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49620/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health the number of persons over 18 years of age that are attending University Limerick Hospitals Group adult diabetes service and using insulin pump therapy to manage their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49621/21]
- 2021-10-14 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health when a specialist diabetic nurse will be appointed to St. John’s Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50356/21]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will allow persons who become disabled after finishing their degree, masters or PhD, to access a SUSI grant again in order to allow them to change to careers that are more in keeping with their new medical situation and in order to encourage more people who are disabled to return to third-level education and the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49168/21]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made to deal with the rising tide of animal cruelty; the number of cases that have been prosecuted on indictment for animal cruelty; the number of sentences of imprisonment that have been imposed for the mistreatment of animals in the past five years; the average fine imposed upon conviction in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49343/21]