Kildare North — week of Mon, 17 Jan

James Lawless — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 15 questions · 40 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 15 total

Health 6 questions
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if the case of persons (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63582/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if an issue in relation to the rental income earned through renting the home of an elderly person in long-term residential care will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63596/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to vaccine certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1083/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health the current situation in relation to the provision of psychology services for children in Celbridge, Maynooth and Clane, County Kildare (details supplied); and the steps that are being taken or planned to rectify the current situation. [1831/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health his plans to assist persons who cannot afford dental treatments due to the withdrawal of dental services from those on the medical card scheme as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2362/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health when the general practitioner visit card which was extended in Budget 2022 to children under eight years of age will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2645/22]
Transport 2 questions
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if a feasibility study has been undertaken to assess if the old disused rail line between Enfield, County Meath and Edenderry, County Offaly could be converted into a greenway thus linking both the Royal Canal and Grand Canal Greenways which is approximately 18 kilometres in length; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1082/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if an issue with a bus service (details supplied) will be examined and addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1844/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education if provision will be made for a person (details supplied) in an autism unit when they transfer to secondary school in September 2020 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2328/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education if she has examined a matter regarding air purification goods (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2425/22]
Foreign 1 question
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2375/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-01-19 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine a situation (details supplied) in relation to the ECCE scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63051/21]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-01-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her strategy to support jobs and businesses in the night-time economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2508/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-01-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Finance when he plans to hold a review of the primary medical certificate criteria given that the Disabled Medical Board has resigned due to concerns in relation to the strict criteria for the primary medical certificate scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2823/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-01-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection the way to proceed with contracts for participants under 60 years of age (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2822/22]

New lobbying 40 returns

Restaurants Association of Ireland Tourism
- Briefing of the Fianna Fail Parliamentary Party
Muscular Dystrophy Society of Ireland GLC Budgetary matters
- As part of MDI's Pre-Budget 2022 campaign (see May-August 2021 return also), members were invited to take part in a letter-writing campaign to local TDs and senators, asking for their support for our submission. Key asks include: increase funding for Personal Assistance; increase core social welfare rates affecting people with MD and their carers; extend medical card eligibility for children aged 16 years and over who have MD; increase funding for housing/accommodation and supports etc.
Society of the Irish Motor Industry Taxation
- Budget Submission 2022 - SIMI prepares an annual Submission for the Budget. The Society held 2 lobbying days inviting all TDs and Senators to Buswells Hotel to outline the contents of the of the SIMI's Budget submission, focusing on the renewal of the national vehicle fleet with newer lower emitting vehicles
Irish Episcopal Conference Justice and Equality
- Seeking the introduction of amending legislation to ensure the inward transfer of Irish prisoners overseas can recommence. Seeking clarification on and proposing changes to the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021.
Gambling.com Group Justice and Equality
- Regulation of gambling reform.
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland Banking and Financial Institutions
- Discussions around Fraud and Financial Crime
The Medical Protection Society Limited Justice and Equality
- Letter asking the Minister for Justice to implement revised pre-action protocols for clinical negligence claims
KARE Promoting People with Intellectual Disabilities Budgetary matters
- KARE and the Muiriosa Foundation are members the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers. In 2021 they participated in a campaign organised by the National Federation in relation to Budget 2022, to highlight the key budget 2022 priorities and discuss the importance of investment in budget 2022 in line with the Disability Capacity Review and to highlight the issues facing people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
MSD Health
- Cancer Care in a post-pandemic COVID-19 era
DOCHAS - THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF NON- GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS Foreign Affairs
- Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Climate Change & COP26
Big Picture Communications Ltd Justice and Equality
- Policy and future regulation on lotteries
The Irish Traveller Movement Justice and Equality
- Traveller Education, Anti Racism, Accommodation , Representation and Inclusion , Joint Oireachtas Committee on Key Issues Affecting Travellers
CPL Fuels Ireland Ltd. Energy and Natural Resources
- To discuss and support the overdue announcement of a nationwide ban on smoky coal in Ireland; to highlight the problem of smuggling and cross border fuel sales
Dyslexia Association of Ireland Education and Training
- Oireachtas Presentation for Dyslexia Awareness Month presenting findings from a recent survey on the experiences of Irish people with dyslexia, and highlighting issues which need to be addressed.
DHR Consultancy Limited Health
- Programme for Government commitment to roll out free contraception - activity from 1 September
Defence Security Industry and Research Ireland CLG Defence
- Letter to Ministers, Deputies, Senators and the Secretary General after 25 November 2021 Department of Defence and Defence Forces Funding event
Gibney Communications Agriculture
- To highlight the imminent crisis facing the horticultural sector as a result of restrictions placed on the harvesting of Irish horticultural peat.
Ibec · 2 returns Economic Development and Industry
- Engagement on business priorities for the Dublin & Mid-East region
- Dáil decision on the Unified Patent Court
SIPTU - Services Industrial Professional Trade Union Children and Youth Affairs
- Budget 2022 campaign
Pender & Associates Ltd Justice and Equality
- Gaming, gambling and lotteries industry activity and related legislation
Liquid Gas Ireland Energy and Natural Resources
- To highlight the role of LPG and BioLPG in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to cleaner air in rural Ireland. Consumer choice and affordability of energy solutions will be key for the economic recovery of rural household and businesses in order to reduce carbon emissions.
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 5 returns Environment · Agriculture · Health · Budgetary matters
- Signpost Farms
- IFA's Response to the CAP Funding Proposals 2023 – 2027.
- Green Ribbon Walks 2021 - IFA's Let's Talk and Walk
- IFA Budget 2022 Submission - Tax Measures to Support Growth & Restructuring.
- IFA Budget 2022 Submission - Expenditure to Support Farm Enterprises.
Law Society of Ireland Justice and Equality
- Joint Committee on Justice - Courts and Courthouses
FTI Consulting Trade
- Seeking the opportunity to brief public representatives on the extent and impact of the illegal trade in tobacco products.
Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail Transport
- Update on Iarnród Éireann’s Strategy 2027, Investment plans, and the role rail can play in addressing the climate emergency through a sustainable transport network
Retailers Against Smuggling · 2 returns Finance
- A mailout outlining RAS activities from Q3 2021
- Meeting request to discuss increased tobacco smuggling rates & growing black market
ITMAC - Irish Tobacco Manufacturers' Advisory Committee Community
- End-of-year mailer to all Oireachtas members highlighting key 2021 successes of the Show Me ID - Be Age Ok responsible retailing programme.
Irish Council for Civil Liberties · 5 returns Justice and Equality · Public Expenditure and Reform
- Procedural Rights in Police Custody Event
- Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021
- Reform of Data Protection Commission
- An Garda Síochána Reform Legislation
- ICCL 2022 Pre-Budget Submission
Irish Penal Reform Trust Justice and Equality
- Sentencing and Sentencing Guidelines in Ireland
Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) Education and Training
- Wrote to all members of Oireachtas to invite to international student report launch

Réada Cronin — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 13 questions · 18 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Health 8 questions
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if persons who have recovered from Covid-19 will have to wait six months for the booster vaccine given the reported highly contagious nature of the new omicron variant and its ability to reinfect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63135/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if persons vaccinated with a one-shot vaccine (details supplied) will be prioritised urgently for boosters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63136/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is asking persons including healthcare workers arriving at vaccination centres to replace their high-protection masks such as FFP2 with those of lower protection quality; if he will publish the scientific basis on which this request is made; if, in the circumstances of the highly-transmissible omicron variant, his Department is content for the HSE to continue with this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63579/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is persisting in its specific advice to high-risk and vulnerable persons to use blue surgical masks as opposed to the FFP2 and similar (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63580/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE and HIQA are taking a different stance on the use of FFP2 masks to that operating in other countries; if he will publish the scientific advice on which this is based; if he will require both bodies to advise FFP2 and similar in the context of the highly-transmissible omicron variant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63581/21]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health when booster vaccines will be sanctioned for those under 16 years of age given the number of parents anxious their children should avail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1572/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason schools have not been identified as significant sources of infection given that other European Union countries have found them to be so and have proceeded in their reopening on that basis; if he will publish the advice on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1576/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the amount that has been paid to a company (details supplied) since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of persons it has assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1618/22]
Education 5 questions
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she is satisfied that classrooms are sufficiently warm for children and staff with respiratory conditions given the low temperatures recorded due to the open windows policy and that such low temperatures can exacerbate lung conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1573/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if on public-health grounds, her Department is sanctioning the free distribution of FFP2 or FFP3 masks to staff in schools; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1574/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she is satisfied that all necessary mitigations have been put in place in schools to address the spread of Covid-19 and protect the immediate and long-term health of staff, students and also public health itself; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1575/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the basis on which teachers deemed by medical consultants to be very high risk are being reclassified as high risk by a company (details supplied); if the medical reasons for this reclassification are being provided to those teachers; if not, if she will make them available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1617/22]
- 2022-01-19 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the reason that FFP2/3 masks are not being made available to teachers as a matter of course without the need to request them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1619/22]

New lobbying 18 returns

Muscular Dystrophy Society of Ireland GLC Budgetary matters
- As part of MDI's Pre-Budget 2022 campaign (see May-August 2021 return also), members were invited to take part in a letter-writing campaign to local TDs and senators, asking for their support for our submission. Key asks include: increase funding for Personal Assistance; increase core social welfare rates affecting people with MD and their carers; extend medical card eligibility for children aged 16 years and over who have MD; increase funding for housing/accommodation and supports etc.
RIAI Environment
- During Cop26 and coinciding with our annual Conference, which was attended by over 1,700 delegates, the RIAI has published a new climate change initiative – 2030 Climate Challenge – which is to encourage the profession and wider construction industry to achieve net zero whole life carbon for all new and retrofitted buildings by 2030.
KARE Promoting People with Intellectual Disabilities Budgetary matters
- KARE and the Muiriosa Foundation are members the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers. In 2021 they participated in a campaign organised by the National Federation in relation to Budget 2022, to highlight the key budget 2022 priorities and discuss the importance of investment in budget 2022 in line with the Disability Capacity Review and to highlight the issues facing people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
The Irish Traveller Movement Justice and Equality
- Traveller Education, Anti Racism, Accommodation , Representation and Inclusion , Joint Oireachtas Committee on Key Issues Affecting Travellers
Friends of the Earth Energy and Natural Resources
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate and Environment consideration of EU legislation
Dyslexia Association of Ireland Education and Training
- Oireachtas Presentation for Dyslexia Awareness Month presenting findings from a recent survey on the experiences of Irish people with dyslexia, and highlighting issues which need to be addressed.
DHR Consultancy Limited Health
- Programme for Government commitment to roll out free contraception - activity from 1 September
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Health
- Treatment of student nurse and midwives during pandemic and publication and implementation of the McHugh Report
Gibney Communications Agriculture
- To highlight the imminent crisis facing the horticultural sector as a result of restrictions placed on the harvesting of Irish horticultural peat.
Ibec · 3 returns Economic Development and Industry
- Irish food and beverage sector work towards the transition to a low carbon economy
- Engagement on business priorities for the Dublin & Mid-East region
- Dáil decision on the Unified Patent Court
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 2 returns Environment · Health
- Signpost Farms
- Green Ribbon Walks 2021 - IFA's Let's Talk and Walk
Wind Energy Ireland Energy and Natural Resources
- Net-zero Irish energy system
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Energy and Natural Resources
- Engagement with elected officials on the recommendations contained in a joint report from SVP and Threshold on energy efficiency in the private rented sector
ITMAC - Irish Tobacco Manufacturers' Advisory Committee Community
- End-of-year mailer to all Oireachtas members highlighting key 2021 successes of the Show Me ID - Be Age Ok responsible retailing programme.
Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) Education and Training
- Wrote to all members of Oireachtas to invite to international student report launch

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