Kildare North — week of Mon, 4 Apr

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Mon, 4 Apr – 10 Apr 2022 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 122 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-04-05 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 64–57

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Aidan Farrelly — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

James Lawless — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Foreign 3 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if passport renewal applications (details supplied) can be examined and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17421/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the passport application by a person (details supplied) will be examined and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17493/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be examined and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17566/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-04-06 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange an urgent home help care package for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18465/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will examine a matter in which a person (details supplied) requires urgent dental treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18979/22]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2022-04-07 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will be updating company law to reduce the regulatory burden on the SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18789/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative changes that are planned in the area of competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18790/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-04-06 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education if she will provide assistance in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18641/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-04-07 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if she will address the large backlog on the waiting list for SOLAS; the steps that are being taken to alleviate this backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18969/22]

Joe Neville — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Naoise Ó Cearúil — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Réada Cronin — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Health 6 questions
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the plan that is in place to ensure that older people in State-run nursing homes get access to regular dental care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19093/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will examine the situation in which residents in State-run nursing homes are spending long periods of time on antibiotics for oral and dental infection in lieu of receiving the necessary dental intervention this being of further note in the context of antibiotic resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19094/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department has a dental welfare plan for State-run nursing homes given the close co-relation between dental health, heart health and new studies showing a connection to brain health in addition to basic chewing of food functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19095/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of dental procedures and checks, respectively that were carried out on residents of State-run nursing homes in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19096/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of social workers who are attached to each of the State-run nursing homes; the ratio per patient for each; the number of visits undertaken per patient in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19097/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the way that State-run nursing homes are assessing dental and oral health and pain in residents who are unable to speak or are cognitively impaired; the number of dental checks carried out on patients in this cohort in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19220/22]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position of the Government in relation to a factory (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15161/22]