Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 7 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 7 Mar – 13 Mar 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 28 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022

2022-03-10 · 4 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 2–6

Voted against 1 Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 5 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 2–6

Voted against 1 Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 5 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 6–2

Voted for 1 Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 5 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

The motion · motion passed 6–2

Voted for 1 Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 5 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Excise: Financial Resolution

2022-03-09 · 4 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 61–71

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

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

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 7–77

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

Abstained 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 59–73

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

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

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 60–73

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

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

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-03-08 · 1 vote

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

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 4 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Further and Higher Education 3 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students in third-level institutions by institution and reason applying for support under the student assistance fund, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12765/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his strategy to end sexual violence and harassment in third-level education; the funding allocated by institution for this issue in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12764/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the current maximum income allowed for a household for a new SUSI applicant; if the applicants income is taken into consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12621/22]
Education 3 questions
- 2022-03-09 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education when a person (details supplied) who has an intellectual disability will be granted a school place. [13144/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education the strategies in place to support children and young persons in education whose primary language is Irish Sign Language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13487/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education her strategy to boost education outcomes and inclusiveness for children and young persons who are at risk of educational disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13488/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of free contraception for 17 to 25-year-olds; when it will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12939/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a cataract operation. [13128/22]
Defence 2 questions
- 2022-03-10 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Defence his views on and response to the finding of the Commission on the Defence Forces that it is clear, in relation to the Defence Forces, that there are recurring themes and specific HR-related issues that are a source of considerable frustration and, in some cases, exasperation; and that among the issues raised are those concerning aspects of career progression, career planning, the lack of a modern organisational perspective on worklife balance, the criteria surrounding pensions and extensions of contractual service, and the lack of flexibility within the current establishment. [13220/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Defence his views on and response to the belief expressed by the Commission on the Defence Forces that representative bodies should be active participants in future public service pay bargaining processes. [13221/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-03-10 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Transport the reason that the NTA has not moved to calibrate taxi meters appropriately given that there is an additional bank holiday in 2022 and taxi drivers will be out of pocket as a consequence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13618/22]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 5 votes · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Taoiseach 5 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Civil Service management board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, will next meet. [11773/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the German Chancellor. [12793/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [12794/22]
- 2022-03-09 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [12795/22]
- 2022-03-09 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he is planning to update the national reform programme for 2022. [11774/22]
Education 5 questions
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a letter from a union (details supplied) pointing out that the advice of her Department that CO2 concentrations of above 1,400-1,500 parts per million are likely to be indicative of poor ventilation was being publicly challenged by experts in the field and that the union noted that experts maintained that a concentration of 1,000ppm is a more appropriate upper limit for CO2 concentration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13319/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will take immediate action to reduce the average class size in Irish primary schools to below the European Union average of 20 pupils per class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13320/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of classrooms and school staffrooms that have yet to be supplied with adequate ventilation systems to ensure safe air quality standards in every school classroom and staffroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13318/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of teachers that were absent in February 2022 due to having Covid-19 symptoms, testing positive or being identified as a close contact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13316/22]
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the new ESRI report, Children of migrants in Ireland: how are they faring?; the steps that she will take to provide additional language supports for children with migrant parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13317/22]
Social 3 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons are still being referred to JobPath. [13014/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is engaging with JobPath is obliged to sign a personal progression plan; and if they refuse to do so, if they can face sanctions. [13015/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is on jobseeker’s benefit who is engaged in a Springboard course can be obliged to take up a job opportunity which they feel is not relevant to their career path; and if they can they face sanctions for not doing so. [13016/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide further details regarding the timeline surrounding in relation to an informed consent model of care (details supplied) given it is currently under consideration by HIQA in draft form. [12338/22]
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 23 February 2022 and in view of the fact that the HSE has responded to say that, the question does not fall under the remit of the HSE but rather the Office of the Chief Medical Officer in his Department (details supplied), if he will now detail the actions his Department has taken to ascertain the number of persons that are dealing with pandemrix-related narcolepsy in Ireland. [13077/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-03-08 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 17 February 2022, the reason that the option of running route A down Camden Street, Dublin was deemed better by the NTA; and the further reason the NTA took a decision on route A in 2019 prior to the completion of the public consultation process (details supplied) given the final phase of BusConnects was in December 2020. [12350/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-03-10 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence the details of Ireland’s defence spending projections into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/22]

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