Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 14 Feb

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 14 Feb – 20 Feb 2022 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 49 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market

2022-02-16 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 71–60

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

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

The motion · motion passed 71–60

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

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-02-15 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 70–55

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

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

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 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Health 13 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health when the 2022 HSE service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7969/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health when he expects hospital waiting lists and waiting times to reduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7970/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure that older persons can age in their own home with dignity and independence as long as possible. [8096/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he will expand the home care sector. [8097/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to enhance the principle and concept of care in society, thereby promoting care giving as a profession. [8098/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to harvest data around the provision of home care and the need for such care in Ireland. [8099/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to analyse the need for home care in the State. [8100/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to equalise the inequity between different HSE regions with regard to provisions of home care and particularly with regard to the provision of travel expenses. [8101/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to tackle the level of unregulated care, including informal employment in a person's home in the home care sector. [8102/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to meet the challenges that are huge in Ireland with regard to ensuring a quantitatively and adequate long-term care workforce to meet the rising demand for long-term care and providing a choice and support for informal carers. [8103/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address what the World Health Organization Global Report on Ageism states is evidence of ageism in the provision of long-term care of older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8104/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure adequate services are provided given the increasing prevalence of dementia in Ireland which is projected to increase and more than double in the next 20 years. [8116/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to address care of people with dementia in their home given that some people may not meet the narrow criteria for personal care but do require other forms of care in the home such as stimulation and are denied any care as a consequence of not meeting narrow criteria. [8221/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-02-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice if she will expedite legislation on stalking. [8605/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice the steps that are being taken to combat knife crime. [8604/22]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Taoiseach if he will report on Harnessing Digital - The Digital Ireland Framework, which was published by his Department on 1 February 2022. [7967/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Transport the relevant regulation governing any obligation on private car park operators in areas such as shopping centre car parks to provide disabled spaces and to provide them free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7918/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance the reason that a community run and operated community centre (details supplied) which has not had an insurance claim over 15 years has seen its premia rise by €10 in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7919/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education if consideration will be given to the use of school buildings to facilitate the July provision in the context of the summer provision for children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7504/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the organisations in south-western areas of Dublin that have been in receipt of funding from her Department. [8362/22]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 3 votes · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 24 total

Health 7 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the action he has taken to date to ensure that those who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine have received adequate compensation. [6688/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that those who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine will receive appropriate compensation without going to court. [6687/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will consider including other workers who have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as those who work in residential drug services in the Covid recognition payment. [7476/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will request the women's health task force to consider the way care for women with hyperemesis can be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7483/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty experienced by those who hold a medical card and are seeking root canal treatment; and the way a family can proceed in order to receive this urgently needed treatment for a 17-year-old medical card holder from a low-income family who cannot afford the treatment given that the dentists they contacted have quoted up to €850. [8862/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 9 February 2022, if he will address the issue that this lack of access to recovery certificates is due to a failure of the HSE to provide PCR tests to potentially many thousands of persons therefore they are unable to obtain recovery certificates in lieu of a booster dose; and the way that his Department plans to resolve this issue for these persons. [8871/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 709 of 8 February 2022, if this combined briefing report on the three nursing homes by HIQA to the Minister for Mental Health and Older People contains information that is not in the published inspection reports; and if he will consider publishing the report without redactions. [8876/22]
Justice 6 questions
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to a person’s (details supplied) case; and if she will instruct the IPO to prioritise this application due to the high risk facing his family in Palestine. [8566/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider changing the law to make the expression of non-violent protest a defence against a charge of criminal damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8734/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will amend the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants scheme to ensure those who are unsuccessful in their application to the scheme will not suffer targeting and deportation as a result of their attempt to become documented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8732/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the steps that will be taken to put protections in place for persons who are engaged in the legal system from possible harassment and abusive behaviour by judges. [8733/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will amend the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants' scheme for undocumented persons to reduce the €850 application fee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8731/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will amend the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants' scheme to include all persons in need of regularisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8730/22]
Taoiseach 4 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [6396/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent communications with the President of the United States of America. [7683/22]
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the British Prime Minister. [7684/22]
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department’s Covid-19 and health unit. [7685/22]
Transport 3 questions
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the commitment made by the NTA in 2021 for route A of BusConnects from Rathfarnham to pass by the National Concert Hall, St. Stephen's Green and Kildare Street (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8582/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the issues with the 175 bus route (details supplied); if he will ensure that a company resolve this issue with its service; and if he will request that the company offers a customer comment form in order that customer feedback can be provided. [8818/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of motorcycle licence tests, compared with car licence tests, that have been completed since the start of 2021, by test centre. [8877/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if there is a process for receiving information from schools regarding teachers who have been unable to attend school due to illness or being a Covid-19 close contact; if these numbers were examined and taken into account when making decisions regarding the State examinations for summer 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8549/22]
- 2022-02-17 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her Department will allow trainee teachers to complete an online alternative to their mandatory Gaeltacht placement in summer 2022 (details supplied). [8855/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the incidents and injuries which caused racing fatalities at greyhound tracks in 2021; if post-mortems were carried out on the dead dogs; and if he will consider a ban on greyhound racing given the growing number of injuries and deaths at tracks, including 351 injuries and 154 deaths in 2021. [7477/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will consider implementing a policy that would see those on the disability allowance automatically entitled to the fuel allowance rather than basing the payment on a means test. [8581/22]

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

Questions asked 3 total

Health 3 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a preschool assignment and a psychological assessment by an organisation (details supplied) based in south-west Dublin. [7739/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given a date for a psychological assessment by an organisation. [7741/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if a recent examination has been undertaken of the drug and alcohol task forces’ catchment areas with a view to the changing needs for resources and funding; if so, when it was undertaken; and the details of same. [8457/22]