Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 22 Nov

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Nov – 28 Nov 2021 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 44 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme

2021-11-24 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 57–73

Voted against 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Did not vote 3 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021

2021-11-24 · 1 vote · Social Democrats PMB

A bill to amend the Education Act 1998 and to provide for related matters

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 82–46

Voted for 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Did not vote 3 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-11-23 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 25–18

Voted for 1 John Lahart

Did not vote 4 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Ciarán Ahern — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Colm Brophy — Fine Gael 2 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Justice 3 questions
- 2021-11-25 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice her assessment of the recent rise in fraud crime. [57818/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice the action being taken to deal with the increase in domestic violence during the pandemic. [57819/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice if she will request statistical information from the Garda Commissioner on the number of instances of spiking that have taken place to date in 2021; if she will request the views of the Commissioner in this regard; if such spiking took place in the form of an injection into the body of a third-party by syringe; the number of reports that have been made of the spiking of drinks to An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58098/21]
Education 2 questions
- 2021-11-23 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education the strategies in place to offer enhanced mental health supports for primary and secondary students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57290/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education the strategies to support children and young persons who are at risk of the highest levels of educational disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57291/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-11-25 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58004/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons availing of the fuel allowance, by main social welfare payment, in tabular form; her plans to extend eligibility for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58005/21]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy John Lahart asked the Taoiseach the social impact assessments carried out by his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit. [57183/21]
Health 1 question
- 2021-11-25 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the number of instances of spiking, including either physical spiking of a person, perhaps through syringe into a part of the body, or of spiking of a drink, that have resulted in presentations at emergency departments in hospitals, by hospital, in tabular form; and the presenting symptoms of the patients to emergency departments in this regard. [58096/21]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 0 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Taoiseach 6 questions
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach the details of the social impact assessments carried out by his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit since 1 January 2016. [55802/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and European Union division of his Department. [55803/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference. [55804/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress report on the Programme for Government. [55801/21]
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [57326/21]
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach the key policy achievements of his Department since June 2020. [57327/21]
Education 5 questions
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will instruct her Department to immediately establish a rapid and transparent system for reporting Covid-19 cases in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57320/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the person or body that produced the homophobic materials recently removed from post-primary school teaching resources; the person or body that made the decision to include the materials as teaching resources; the actions she will take against those responsible; and the steps she has taken to ensure there can be no repeat of this. [57319/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the minimum 12-week wait for teachers providing additional tuition through the summer provision before they receive payment; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that when payment is received in cases in which they are paid and not paid under primary teachers employment, they are subjected to higher taxation; if her Department has plans to correct this issue given there is already a shortage of teachers wanting to participate in the scheme; and if her Department will improve conditions ensuring these teachers are paid on time and under the correct classification. [57074/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her Department will consider a special arrangement for current leaving certificate students for 2022, for example, accredited grades for two to three subjects to relieve some of the pressure given the disruptions they have experienced to their education due to Covid-19. [57081/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the status of the planned timetable for the building of the new secondary school in Citywest, Dublin. [58132/21]
Health 5 questions
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 16 November 2021, if he will provide the details of the notifications to date in 2021 given that he has advised that a notification of each termination of pregnancy carried out under the legislation must be notified to him within 28 days of it being carried out. [57446/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the circumstances by which there was a power outage at Tallaght Hospital on 17 November 2021; and the impact the outage had on the services provided at the hospital. [57473/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 is implemented ensuring that children are protected from alcohol marketing, particularly the broadcast watershed under section 19 that removes alcohol advertising from television until 9 p.m. and the content of advertisements under section 13, which, if enacted, ensures all self-regulatory and voluntary codes administered by the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland would become redundant and replaced by a statutory code (details supplied). [57597/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if patients who are in hospital and who are unable to leave hospital to go to a vaccination centre are being offered the Covid-19 vaccine in the hospital. [58130/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting list for paediatric orthopaedic care (details supplied); and the solution offered by his Department to rapidly tackle the crisis in providing paediatric care. [58246/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans in relation to coursing clubs (details supplied) which are based in areas in which live hare coursing is banned but have been able to run their live hare coursing meetings in Ireland; the location of the hares caught; the location of the storage of the animals; and the person or body that authorised these meetings. [57085/21]
Justice 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice his plans to improve the registration system at The Garda National Immigration Bureau, Burgh Quay Office given there have been reports that it is not possible to make an appointment currently. [57458/21]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 164 and 165 of 17 November 2021, if the final proposal referred to in his answer will be published; and when this criterion was adopted by Solas. [58131/21]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Health 3 questions
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the cause of the recent power outage at University Hospital Tallaght, leading to the cancellation of all scheduled outpatient and day appointments; and the measures that will be put in place to ensure that it does not occur again. [57618/21]
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of beds Peamount Hospital has for continuing care for neurological illness or acquired brain injury; if all beds are currently staffed full-time and open; and the number of vacancies for medical staff are currently unfilled at the hospital. [57749/21]
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the considerations that were made in the Covid-19 pass system for persons who are medically advised against receiving a Covid-19 vaccination. [57890/21]