Tipperary North — week of Mon, 4 Apr

What your Tipperary North TDs did this week

Mon, 4 Apr – 10 Apr 2022 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 19 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-04-05 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 64–57

Voted against 1 Alan Kelly

Did not vote 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Alan Kelly — Labour Party 1 vote · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Education 9 questions
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education if all relevant staff under the remit of her Department have been trained in on circular CI 48/2018; and if she would be concerned if this was not the case. [18598/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the number of times in total Circular letter Cl 48/2018 has been invoked at stage 4 of its process as opposed to stages 1, 2 and 3. [18601/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the process involved to determine when a case begins at stage 4 under Circular CI 48/2018. [18602/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the personnel that are involved under Circular CI 48/2018 in invoking stage 4; and the procedures that are undertaken to start proceedings at stage 4 and ensure that those making those decisions do not have conflicts when it comes to making those decisions. [18604/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the process under Circular CI 48/2018 an education and training board takes to investigate under this circular, who carries out these investigations; and if she is confident that all education and training boards have done so correctly. [18606/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the role that the internal audit unit of Education and Training Boards Ireland has in issues being dealt with under cl 48/2018; the remit of the unit; if it can investigate perceived fraudulent cases; and if this is within its remit. [18608/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education further to the fact that the recent Covid-19 grants to schools and centres of further education will expire this term, the amount of these funds that have been returned unspent by each education and training board in tabular form; and the reason in this regard. [18612/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some education and training boards withheld a percentage of the ICT grant funding allocated directly to schools over the Past five years for improving ICT provision as per each school’s ICT and e-learning plan; the financial amounts each education and training board withheld; and the amounts of the ICT grant each board withheld from their schools for each of the years 2018 to 2022, by education and training board in tabular form. [18613/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education her views on whether it is appropriate that a member of an education and training board senior management team direct an investigation into a school under CL 48/2018 in which such a member could be conflicted or party to the issues being looked into. [18909/22]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if all staff working in the education and training board sector have been informed by their relevant board that if they are working in the post leaving certificate sector that they are no longer being paid by his Department and have been moved to SOLAS; if their terms and conditions have changed; and the way this has affected teacher allocation and utilisation in dual provision schools. [18614/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if all staff working in the education and training board sector have been informed by their relevant board that if they are working in the post leaving certificate sector that they are no longer being paid by his Department and have been moved to SOLAS; if their terms and conditions have changed; and the way this has affected teacher allocation and utilisation in dual provision schools. [18615/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport if he will request Irish Rail to include the Limerick to Ballybrophy via Nenagh railway line on the manual level crossing upgrade project and to ring-fence the required funding to automate the manual level crossings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17573/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of employers and businesses that use the Disability Awareness Training Grant. [19217/22]

Michael Lowry — Independent 0 votes · 6 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 6 total

Education 3 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a request by an organisation (details supplied) that reasonable accommodations be made at State examinations for a particular provision for students with epilepsy; if examination candidates who suffered a seizure will be given the opportunity to re-sit any impacted examinations within the same examination cycle and within the same academic year; her views on whether students who suffered a seizure will have an unfair disadvantage in respect of other candidates in the same examination cycle; if she has discussed this matter with the State Examinations Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17638/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education if additional DEIS support such as schools completion and home school liaison supports will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18496/22]
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education the way that a teacher (details supplied) can transfer their reckonable teaching hours worked at secondary level over to primary level; if these hours can be used to increase their current pay scale point on the primary teachers’ pay scale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19077/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who was employed as a Covid-19 vaccinator did not have their employment contract extended; when they will be paid their final wages, bank holiday entitlements and holiday pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17837/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Transport if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) concerning an extension of the Government emergency support for the haulage sector which seeks the extension of the scheme to own account operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18524/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-04-07 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the case of a County Tipperary student who was studying dentistry in Ukraine (details supplied) and is now seeking to continue their education to a become dentist at an Irish university; the assistance that will be provided to this student to allow study at the appropriate university here in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18945/22]

New lobbying 1 return

Pro Life Campaign Health
- Requested meetings with politicians to outline the Pro Life Campaign's objectives as part of the three year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018

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

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.