Waterford — week of Mon, 8 Nov — Watch Them Work

What your Waterford TDs did this week

Mon, 8 Nov – 14 Nov 2021 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 31 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages

2021-11-10 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 53–73

Voted for 2 David Cullinane · Matt Shanahan

Voted against 2 Marc Ó Cathasaigh · Mary Butler

Did not vote 2 Conor D McGuinness · John Cummins

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy

2021-11-10 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 72–55

Voted for 3 Marc Ó Cathasaigh · Mary Butler · Matt Shanahan

Voted against 1 David Cullinane

Did not vote 2 Conor D McGuinness · John Cummins

The motion · motion passed 72–54

Voted for 3 Marc Ó Cathasaigh · Mary Butler · Matt Shanahan

Voted against 1 David Cullinane

Did not vote 2 Conor D McGuinness · John Cummins

Finance Bill 2021: Financial Resolutions (Resumed)

2021-11-10 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 73–54

Voted for 3 Marc Ó Cathasaigh · Mary Butler · Matt Shanahan

Voted against 1 David Cullinane

Did not vote 2 Conor D McGuinness · John Cummins

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-11-09 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 25–20

Voted for 1 Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Did not vote 4 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane · John Cummins · Mary Butler

Conor D McGuinness — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

David Cullinane — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 24 total

Health 23 questions
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average number of staff by grade on duty or on call on night shifts in each model 3 or model 4 hospital for each month since January 2020 to October 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54046/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cross-Border service level agreements which exist between hospitals and hospital groups, trusts north and south in tabular form; the discipline services which are provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54482/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the length of time of the recruitment clearance and staff orientation processes for international and domestic recruitment campaigns across staff group or grades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54493/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the investments and costs required for upgrading the two major trauma centres; the expansions of services which will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54516/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of active general medical services scheme contracts and other contracts for general practitioner services with the HSE for each year since 2011. [54518/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will establish a national link with Northern Ireland for cross-Border paediatric pathology services; if a service level agreement or another such agreement will be established or is being discussed or developed to ensure paediatric pathology services are available on the island in both jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54523/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of times he or his officials have met or discussed the matter of cross-Border paediatric pathology services with their counterparts in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54524/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives who leave the HSE within one, five and five years of taking up employment. [54529/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors by level, that is, from trainee to consultant who leave the HSE within one, five and five years of taking up employment. [54530/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of overtime hours worked on a weekly basis by medical and nursing grade staff in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form. [54537/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of annual leave days forgone and unused by nursing, midwifery and medical staff in each of the years 2017 to 2020. [54539/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which a nursing and midwifery or medical grade staff were called back prematurely from a period of leave; and the number of staff affected, in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form. [54540/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of capital project applications which have been submitted by each hospital, by hospital group, for new bed units and wards and treatment capacity expansion, for example, theatres; the number sought; the stage at which each of these applications is at; the estimated cost of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54576/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies by staffing category and grade at each hospital, by hospital group; the length of time these vacancies have been open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54577/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes to recruit a replacement for a vacancy; the average length of time it takes to recruit into a new post across medical and nursing and midwifery staff grades for each hospital group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54578/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average length of time each stage in the capital application process takes in the context of new build acute inpatient beds; the length of time of the application process, the funding approval process, the procurement process and the build process, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54587/21]
- 2021-11-10 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 12 October 2021, the location at which the 1,146 acute beds announced in budget 2021 have been or will be opened in 2021; the number at each location; the number opened in existing spaces; the number previously funded under one-off funding such as, but not limited to, the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and the number opened in new spaces, that is, new build by type of unit, for example, single occupancy, in tabular form. [54852/21]
- 2021-11-10 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if he will list each waiting list for services provided by the HSE, except for those provided by community services, which is not reported by the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [54924/21]
- 2021-11-11 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the resumption of daycare services in north County Sligo; the arrangement his Department will put in place to deliver daycare services in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55267/21]
- 2021-11-11 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average length of time it took to recruit and fill a nursing post in hospitals in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [55359/21]
- 2021-11-11 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average length of time it took to recruit and fill a consultant post in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [55360/21]
- 2021-11-11 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average length of time it took to recruit and fill a new or vacant post in the HSE in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [55361/21]
- 2021-11-11 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner referrals by type of referral and service for each month of 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55362/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-11-09 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Transport if will consider expanding the eligibility criteria for the young adult travel card scheme to include private bus and coach operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54468/21]

John Cummins — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mary Butler — Fianna Fáil 4 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Finance 2 questions
- 2021-11-09 Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for incapacitated child credit in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to review incapacitated child credit application in respect of a person with a view to awarding same, at pre-diagnosis stage, in line with the current medical advice and significant medical evidence which has been provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54461/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Finance if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of green and glasshouse growers as per correspondence in the context of the carbon tax and Budget 2022; if he is satisfied that the future of this industry has been adequately safeguarded in conjunction with recent budgetary carbon taxation measures, considering the points raised in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54783/21]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2021-11-09 Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the possible provision of funding to complete works to the wall at the pier entrance in Helvick, County Waterford; the position regarding required dredging works to ensure that vessels can travel freely as opposed to current situation by which they must await certain tide levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54255/21]
- 2021-11-09 Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the increase in outbreaks of TB in an area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54257/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-11-09 Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Education if she will address the matters raised in correspondence by person (details supplied) regarding the July provision programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54263/21]