Dublin Central — week of Mon, 7 Mar

What your Dublin Central TDs did this week

Mon, 7 Mar – 13 Mar 2022 · 4 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 36 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Excise: Financial Resolution

2022-03-09 · 4 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 61–71

Voted for 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 1 Marie Sherlock

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 7–77

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Abstained 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Did not vote 1 Marie Sherlock

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 59–73

Voted for 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 1 Marie Sherlock

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 60–73

Voted for 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Voted against 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 1 Marie Sherlock

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-03-08 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 65–53

Voted for 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Voted against 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Did not vote 1 Marie Sherlock

Gary Gannon — Social Democrats 5 votes · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Further and Higher Education 6 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the lack of eligibility to student grants for persons who hold stamp 4 visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12848/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if students who are heading one-parent families are a priority group for supports into further and higher education at all levels of education; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a systemic disadvantage for one-parent family recipients who wish to pursue a PhD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12850/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when the SUSI review will be published; when he plans to implement the recommendations from the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12849/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the work by his Department on reducing the issue of precarity of employment in the higher education sector. [12851/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide the participation rates of students in recipient of SUSI on the Erasmus+ programme in each of the years 2016 to 2019. [12906/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to calls by Irish students studying medicine in Ukraine seeking to continue their education to become doctors; if assistance will be provided to them to transfer them home to study at medical schools here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13704/22]
Education 6 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the annual amounts paid to third parties for the rental of properties for school accommodation from 2010 to date broken down by county, year and school in tabular form. [12905/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the status of the Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021; and if she will expedite the work on the Bill. [13664/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the recommendation from the Joint Committee on Education to provide emotional counselling and therapeutic supports on site in all primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13534/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when the review on alternative education will be published; and the reason for the delay. [13535/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education her plans to support the education and emotional needs of Ukrainian children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13533/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when the reprofiling exercise originally planned to take place in 2021 will be conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13532/22]
Health 4 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by an association (details supplied) which is seeking an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists across Ireland; if he has engaged with this association; if so, the details of the engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12901/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Mater Misericordiae University is currently operating with a shortage of neurology nurse specialists; the estimated cost of an additional eight neurology nurse specialists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12902/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting a neurology outpatient appointment in the Mater Misericordiae University. [12903/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health his views on whether investing in neurology nurses is a cost-efficient way of improving the efficiency of outpatient clinics, reducing waiting times and ensuring patients have access to the specialist support they need to manage their conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12904/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance the annual expenditure from the Revenue Commissioners towards additional healthcare expenses for a child from 2017-2021; the average annual relief claimed for child oncology patients in tabular form. [12899/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of 16- and 17-year-olds living with cancer who applied for disability allowance from 2018 - 2021; the number of applications that were accepted and refused; the annual expenditure on accepted cases in tabular form. [12900/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department will review the impact of participation in the basic income for artists scheme on existing social protection supports, in particular if artists in receipt of payments, such as a disability payment, will not be precluded from participating in the scheme, given the proposed trial is to be launched imminently. [13705/22]
Foreign 1 question
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to two Irish medical students (details supplied) currently in the Sumy State University in Ukraine. [13703/22]

Marie Sherlock — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mary Lou McDonald — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Taoiseach 5 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Civil Service management board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, will next meet. [9274/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the German Chancellor. [11090/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the dates on which each Cabinet Committee (details supplied) met from June 2020 to date inclusive [13114/22]
- 2022-03-09 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [11088/22]
- 2022-03-09 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach his plans to update the national reform programme. [12410/22]
Health 5 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health further to the advice from NPHET on the removal of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions from 28 February 2022, if the Keltoi residential addiction unit, St. Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park will be reopened. [12355/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the weekly number of residential patients with Covid-19 at the social inclusion Covid isolation facility temporarily located at the Keltoi residential addiction unit, St. Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park from 1 January 2022 to the end of February 2022, inclusive in tabular form. [12356/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the unacceptably long waiting list for persons seeking access to the National Gender Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13639/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in each CHO area currently awaiting an assessment by the National Gender Service; the average waiting times for each CHO area; and the current waiting time in each CHO area in tabular form. [13640/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the status of each recommendation made by the National Transgender Healthcare Steering Committee in 2020; the progress on the implementation of each recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13641/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education if the Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion has met with the parents of children attending a school (details supplied) regarding the under provision of special needs assistants as committed to on 16 February 2022. [12378/22]

Paschal Donohoe — Fine Gael 5 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns