Tipperary North — week of Mon, 14 Feb

What your Tipperary North TDs did this week

Mon, 14 Feb – 20 Feb 2022 · 3 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 23 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 against 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

The motion · motion passed 71–60

Voted against 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-02-15 · 1 vote

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

Voted against 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Alan Kelly — Labour Party 3 votes · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Taoiseach 6 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [5963/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent communications with the President of the United States. [7921/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the publication of Harnessing Digital - The Digital Ireland Framework, published by his Department. [7922/22]
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the British Prime Minister. [7925/22]
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department’s Covid-19 and health unit. [7920/22]
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [5964/22]
Health 4 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year capital and current costs that would be required to increase the opening hours of the heart failure clinic at Nenagh Hospital from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Monday to Friday to 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. [7639/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent clinical nurse specialists in stoma care in each of the years of 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022; and the hospitals in which these clinical nurse specialists are located, in tabular form. [7640/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the hospitals that currently operate a helipad within their grounds and are able to accept flights on a 24-7 basis; and the hospitals that have a helipad within their grounds but are unable to accept flights on a 24-7 basis, in tabular form. [7641/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of procedures procured by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2021 and to date in 2022, by the type and speciality of each procedure in tabular form. [7642/22]
Transport 2 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost in 2022 if Iarnród Éireann doubles the number of its revenue protection officers. [7643/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost in 2022 if Iarnród Éireann increased its funding on security personnel by a further 25% within its stations and trains compared to the amount spent on security in 2021. [7644/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities to answer Parliamentary Question Nos. 476 and 478 of 30 November 2021. [7632/22]
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda band as of 7 February 2022; and if she will provide same figure as of 1 February 2020, in tabular form. [7634/22]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to Italy is scheduled for the first half of 2022. [7636/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Finance the number of fuel tanks tested for marked fuel in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and the number of positive tests in each year in tabular form. [7631/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the changes she has made to the selection and awarding of sports capital grants in the latest round of funding; and when these grants will be announced. [7598/22]
Foreign 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to allow first-time applicants access to passport online for persons living in South Africa, India and Japan. [7645/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when section 9 of the Greyhound Racing Act 2019 will come into force. [7638/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of whole-time equivalent posts that are currently vacant in the Charities Regulator; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of these vacancies; and when these vacancies will be filled in tabular form. [7635/22]

Michael Lowry — Independent 0 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Environment 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the fact a company (details supplied) which provides satellite broadband to the Kilcommon, Rearcross areas of County Tipperary will permanently shut down its broadband network on 30 June 2022; the alternative broadband options that will be available in this area when the company closes; the steps taken by his Department to ensure adequate rural broadband is available to this location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8266/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-02-15 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to deliver on a capital building programme in a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the project costs for the school have increased by approximately 60% from the price that was initially indicated on the application submitted to her Department; the steps her Department is taking to provide additional financial assistance to this school considering the entire building industry in Ireland had seen substantial inflation increases as a direct result of Covid-19, Brexit and the uncertain availability of raw materials and skilled labour in the building industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7474/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-02-16 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Finance if provisions will be prioritised for the removal of VAT from defibrillators in the wake of agreement by European Union finance ministers to amend Council Directive 2006/112/EC on 7 December 2021 given that the removal of VAT from the cost of defibrillators would greatly increase the ability of sports clubs, first responder groups and other community organisations to provide vital emergency assistance in the event of cardiac arrests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8587/22]

Ryan O'Meara — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.