Dún Laoghaire — week of Mon, 24 Jan

What your Dún Laoghaire TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Jan – 30 Jan 2022 · 4 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 44 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Leaving Certificate

2022-01-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–59

Voted for 2 Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Cormac Devlin

The motion · motion passed 74–59

Voted for 2 Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Cormac Devlin

Cost of Living

2022-01-26 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–60

Voted for 2 Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Cormac Devlin

Barry Ward — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Cormac Devlin — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Foreign 3 questions
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his attendance at the meeting of the European Union General Affairs Council on 25 January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3767/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his attendance at the meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council on 24 January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3766/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of efforts to resolve the situation involving a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4021/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2947/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health when he expects the final decision on awarding the tender for the independent chair of the commission to oversee the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will be finalised; the details of the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4018/22]
Housing 2 questions
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of a development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4016/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the proposed public housing development at Shanganagh Castle, Shankill, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4017/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education the status of the school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4019/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education the status of the school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4020/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice the budget allocated to the Legal Aid Board in each of the years 2016 to 2021; the number of legal aid certificates granted by the Legal Aid Board; the number of complaints received by the Legal Aid Board in respect of solicitors operating under legal aid certificates; the number of requests to change solicitor granted by the service in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4015/22]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill — Fine Gael 3 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Housing 2 questions
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of accommodation provision for members of the Travelling community; and the budget provision and spend in this area. [3055/22]
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the work underway to introduce maternity leave for councillors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3053/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the work his Department is undertaking to combat gender-based violence overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3643/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department supports initiatives or programmes aiming at tackling global inequality in terms of education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3644/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Defence the progress at tackling inappropriate behaviour in the Defence Forces arising from concerns raised in 2021 by a number of serving and retired personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3645/22]

Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity 3 votes · 29 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 29 total

Agriculture 13 questions
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on the forestry licensing dashboard on week 2 January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3000/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of kilometres of riparian native woodlands that have been planted under the woodlands for water funding to remove exotic conifers that were planted too close to rivers and streams and replaced with native woodlands. [3723/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been spent to rent or buy warehousing space in the UK and in general to mitigate against the negative effects of Brexit; the status of a partnership with a company (details supplied) in relation to a project; the costs the partnership has incurred; and the breakdown of the chemical composition of tricoya boards. [3725/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the continued clear-felling and replanting of 90% to 95% sitka spruce on sensitive and vulnerable upland bog sites in contradiction with current science (details supplied); and his views on same. [3726/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of land sold by his Department since 1989; the amount of forward selling of future Coillte forest harvests that have been sold; the person or body to which harvests have been sold; and if any of these sales have been subject to public tendering processes. [3727/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte farm forestry partnerships that have been and are currently subject to arbitration; and his views on same in relation to seeking to encourage farmers to plant trees on farms. [3729/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department last supplied the ESB, Eircom or other companies with utility and transmission poles; the reason the companies are no longer supplied with poles given that the ESB imports wooden poles with an average annual value of approximately €30 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3730/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of the 27,000 hectares of old woodland sites (details supplied) identified in 2001 that have been transitioned to native woodlands; the amount of hardwood Coillte has harvested since 2001, by firewood, sawn planks and saw logs; the value of each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3731/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the current forest policy review process, Project Woodland, has no provision to examine reforestation, the main forestry activity conducted by Coillte given that this is a continuation of a failed forestry policy that involves clear-felling and replanting of 90 to 95% sitka spruce impacting on approximately 50% of the total forest area; the reason that the review has no remit or focus on the remaining 0.2% of ancient woodland fragments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3737/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the University College of Dublin attitudes to forestry survey focused on counties Wicklow and Kerry conducted by a person (details supplied) will feed into Project Woodland and the current forestry review process; his views on a statement by the person encouraging the public to respond to the survey; the average value of one hectare of sitka spruce across all yield classes and for each yield class; if he will provide the most up-to-date cost benefit analysis for public spending on forestry; if this includes current forestry issues relating to water quality; and if damage to water by current forestry practices is being taken into account in cost benefit analysis for public funding. [3738/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that no records exist or cannot be found by his Department in relation to public access to information under the provisions of the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007 to 2018 pertaining to stakeholder meetings involving his Department and the Forestry Appeals Committee including recorded meetings on 20 November 2019, 10 January 2020 and 6 October 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3740/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average time taken for his Department to issue a statement of facts on an appeal of a forestry licence after a request for the same from the Forestry Appeals Committee between the three schemes, that is, felling, forest roads and afforestation and Coillte licences and private licences, respectively. [3741/22]
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the processes or procedures followed by the Forest Service Inspectorate when carrying out a post licence monitoring inspection of the felling licence in respect of tree felling licences that have been subject to an appropriate assessment under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive; the criteria or details that are routinely assessed; and the number and proportion of licences that have been subject to an appropriate assessment that involve categories (details supplied). [3742/22]
Foreign 5 questions
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to increase European Union military spending following the recent discussions at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3929/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has discussed the ongoing war in Yemen and the humanitarian crisis with his counterparts across Europe; if consideration has been given to the imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3926/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if proposals from NATO for increased European Union military spending were discussed at a recent meeting of European Union foreign ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3928/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts on the increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3930/22]
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has discussed the recent uprising in Kazakhstan with his counterparts in Europe; if he will report on his discussions in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3927/22]
Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the national risk assessment published by his Department. [3608/22]
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the first year of the shared island initiative. [3609/22]
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the European Council. [3610/22]
Children 2 questions
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the arrangements he is making for refugees in a centre (details supplied) having fled Afghanistan to have family members reunited with them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3206/22]
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to move Afghan refugees out of direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3207/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of options available to a person (details supplied). [3016/22]
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the transfer of a child (details supplied) from Sligo University Hospital to Temple Street Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3018/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has reviewed or plans to review staffing levels in the local authorities in view of the changes to the strategic housing development and large-scale residential developments legislation; if he will sanction extra posts to ensure that staff increases needed in the planning sections of the local authorities will not pull away from other sections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2455/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-01-25 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will consider the use of an antigen test to allow access to a leisure facility in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin for a child with special needs who cannot attend swimming therapy as their mother does not have a vaccine passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3152/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-01-26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide the full report, details and responses to the University College Dublin attitudes to forestry survey for counties Wicklow and Kerry conducted by a person (details supplied). [3739/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-01-27 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will consult with the National Transport Authority and a company (details supplied) to review the bus timetables of the services 59 and 111 serving Dalkey, Loughlinstown, Killiney and Dún Laoghaire to include a service that caters for school children attending schools, in view of the fact that there is currently no timetabled service that coincides with the finishing times of these schools resulting in many more cars on the road impacting traffic and emissions unnecessarily; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3980/22]