Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 21 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 21 Feb – 27 Feb 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 34 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages

2022-02-23 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 77–57

Voted for 2 Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy

Carbon Tax

2022-02-23 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–61

Voted for 2 Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy

The motion · motion passed 73–61

Voted for 2 Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers

2022-02-23 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–61

Voted for 2 Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy

The motion · motion passed 73–61

Voted for 2 Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy

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 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Health 5 questions
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to standardise home care rates of pay and benefits across Ireland (details supplied). [9261/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure better terms and conditions will be provided to enable Alzheimer's organisations (details supplied) to retain home care staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9262/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he is considering increasing the funding for organisations (details supplied) to operate a buddy system or to allow new starters to work alongside more experienced staff for a meaningful period of time. [9263/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health his views on the need for a review to provide a balance between State providers of home care services and their NGO and private sector counterparts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9265/22]
- 2022-02-23 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he will address a series of issues (details supplied) relating to the EU Digital COVID Certificate. [10190/22]
Finance 3 questions
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to maintain Ireland’s economic competitiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9494/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance if an update will be provided on the work of the Office to Promote Competition in the Insurance Market since its establishment. [9495/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance if he plans to change the measure whereby a childless, single person can only leave substantially less to a sibling, niece or nephew free of inheritance tax than to a son or daughter, who can inherit €335,000 from a parent before paying the tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9267/22]
Tourism 3 questions
- 2022-02-24 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of meeting the target of 40% female representation on the boards of sporting organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10433/22]
- 2022-02-24 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the development of local sports plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10432/22]
- 2022-02-24 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the requisites for an Irish speaker within the public service; if an honours leaving certificate in Irish constitutes the same given the announcement recently with regard to a proportion of jobs being allocated to Irish speakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10609/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education her plans to increase further the number of SNAs for the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9869/22]
- 2022-02-24 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a lack of resourcing for reading schools in Dublin (details supplied); if she has any plans to increase supports for reading schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10517/22]
Environment 2 questions
- 2022-02-24 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is a timeline for the establishment of the national residential retrofit oversight steering group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10480/22]
- 2022-02-24 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is a timeline for the establishment of the national residential retrofit oversight steering group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10608/22]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the plans of the Central Statistics Office for census 2022. [10083/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-02-22 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice if a person (details supplied) is entitled to continue to work from home due to their circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9188/22]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 5 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Finance 4 questions
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue raised by VAT, by quarter, in each of the years 2015 to 2021. [9108/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue raised from excise duty on energy products and electricity, by quarter, in each of the years 2015 to 2021. [9109/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue raised from VAT on energy products and electricity, by quarter, in each of the years 2015 to 2021. [9110/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue raised from the carbon tax, by quarter, in each of the years 2010 to 2021. [9111/22]
Health 4 questions
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent revelation in the media (details supplied) that a critical peer review by a person of a key section of the Askeaton Inquiry Report was not published at the time of the report in 2001; if an inquiry will be conducted into the reason this happened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9258/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the status of plans for improving podiatry services for persons in south-west Dublin and nationally in relation to the HSE model of care for the diabetic foot (details supplied). [9293/22]
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans for dedicated Huntington's disease clinics, staffing and funding; if he will establish a working group under the joint auspices of the National Dementia Office and the integrated care programme ensuring that the work is completed within the next six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9551/22]
- 2022-02-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the actions his Department has taken to ascertain the number of persons that are dealing with a vaccine (details supplied) related narcolepsy in Ireland. [10141/22]
Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the plans of the CSO for census 2022. [6397/22]
- 2022-02-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Europe will next meet. [9709/22]
- 2022-02-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the shared island unit will hold its next dialogue. [9710/22]
Environment 2 questions
- 2022-02-23 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has costings or projected figures for the additional cost of the National Broadband Plan as a result of the poor infrastructure of the existing network (details supplied); if additional costs attributable to this will be met solely by the State or the winning tenderer for the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10359/22]
- 2022-02-24 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the proposed energy grant will be reviewed in light of ongoing inflation in energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10280/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there has still been no contact made between staff and the external support in the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will take action to ensure that the recommendations from the whole school evaluation are implemented urgently. [9874/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the increasing number of older persons falling into poverty as a direct result of the cost of living increases; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact the value of the €5 increase agreed for the State pension in Budget 2022 has already essentially been wiped out with the rise in carbon taxes, fuel costs and cost of living; if she will commit to a secured annual increase in the State pension to address the increasing cost of living for those in receipt of the pension given that almost 70% of persons reliant on the State pension did not qualify for the extension of the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9846/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-02-22 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to the two-month visa process in relation to vulnerable Ukrainian family members of Irish citizens to travel to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9301/22]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns