Dún Laoghaire — week of Mon, 31 Jan

What your Dún Laoghaire TDs did this week

Mon, 31 Jan – 6 Feb 2022 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 18 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages

2022-02-02 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 54–76

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Richard Boyd Barrett

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages

2022-02-02 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 54–75

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Richard Boyd Barrett

The motion · motion passed 74–52

Voted for 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Richard Boyd Barrett

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-02-01 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 26–18

Voted for 2 Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 3 Barry Ward · Cormac Devlin · Richard Boyd Barrett

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 3 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Taoiseach 1 question
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4810/22]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill — Fine Gael 4 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Social 2 questions
- 2022-02-03 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the progress on introducing the auto-enrolment pension programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5013/22]
- 2022-02-03 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Social Protection when the changes to the domiciliary care allowance and carer’s allowance payments in respect of children in hospital will take effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5014/22]
Children 2 questions
- 2022-02-03 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vulnerability assessments of international protection applicants undertaken in 2021; the way this compares to previous years; the most common vulnerabilities identified; the steps that are being taken to address and support those identified as vulnerable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5184/22]
- 2022-02-03 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons coming from Afghanistan to date that have been granted visa waivers to enter the Irish Refugee Protection Programme; if there are plans to issue more visa waivers for vulnerable groups and persons that do not qualify for the Afghan Admission Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5183/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Education the percentage increase and monetary increase in the funding for special education per annum over the past decade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4612/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Health the status of a site for public services for adults with ADHD in CHO6; the timeline for the same; if a consultant psychiatrist was appointed in quarter 4 of 2021 with service provision commencing at the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4265/22]

Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity 0 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Education 5 questions
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of the 42 new schools planned for 2019 to 2022 under the online patronage preference system that have permanent sites and buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4812/22]
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will now consider implementing the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third-level and getting rid of the traditional leaving certificate once and for all; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4813/22]
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a report on the online patronage process system that was opened in 2018 to decide 42 new schools to include name of school and catchment area, type of patronage of each school; if enrolment has opened on the schools; if the schools have temporary sites or permanent sites or both identified; the stage the building of these schools is at; when they are expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4855/22]
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the plans for a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4856/22]
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a full report on all the actions that have been taken to identify a temporary and a permanent site for a school (details supplied) including efforts to purchase or lease a site as well as using any existing site owned by her Department with a list of all the sites that were looked at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4857/22]
Taoiseach 4 questions
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4698/22]
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet.. [2221/22]
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4699/22]
- 2022-02-02 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [4700/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport the options a taxi driver has to renew their licence in cases in which they cannot get an answer to emails or phone calls to the National Driver Licence Service for over two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5036/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-02-01 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on whether all lectures should be held on campus including Maynooth University as opposed to online given that pubs, restaurants, football matches, cinema and so on are all back to full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5041/22]