Roscommon-Galway — week of Mon, 2 May

What your Roscommon-Galway TDs did this week

Mon, 2 May – 8 May 2022 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-05-04 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 72–53

Voted for 1 Denis Naughten

Voted against 1 Claire Kerrane

Did not vote 2 Martin Daly · Michael Fitzmaurice

Claire Kerrane — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 14 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Social 6 questions
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered making lone parent family payments available in respect of the guardianship of foster children; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that lone parents cannot avail of those supports such as the one parent family payment and the jobseeker’s transitional payment for the children they are fostering; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22058/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that the guardian's payment is set at a rate of €191 per week; the way that this rate varies for additional children or for children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22059/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish her response to the Pension Commission's report considering she had initially indicated that she would report by the end of March 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22060/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish her response to the Child Maintenance Review Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22061/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the processes that are in place to support lone parents who are foster parents (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22123/22]
- 2022-05-05 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to increasing the threshold for travel allowance as part of the means testing assessment for carer’s allowance on reflection of the rapidly rising prices of petrol and diesel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22370/22]
Health 5 questions
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE needle exchanges and their operating hours in 2022, in tabular form. [21839/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number of bone anchor hearing aids fitted in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 in Roscommon University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21840/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1577 of 26 April 2022, if he will confirm details of a matter (details supplied); and if the matter has now been concluded. [22056/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the reason that school age services were transferred from a service provider (details supplied) to the HSE; the number of children on waiting lists for therapies under the HSE in County Roscommon following this transition; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that since this transition, children who were getting some service under the initial service provider albeit minimal are now getting no services at all; the actions he will take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22355/22]
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the reason that speech and language therapy services, occupational therapy services and physiotherapy services are not being provided to children with a condition (details supplied) in County Roscommon; when these services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22356/22]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to Portugal is scheduled before the end of the first half of 2022. [21841/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Transport if he will request Iarnród Éireann to increase the number of trains between Dublin Heuston to Roscommon from four times daily to five times daily from Mondays to Saturdays. [21837/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-05-04 Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Justice the number of bench warrants currently outstanding in each Garda division as of 26 April 2022, in tabular form. [21838/22]

Martin Daly — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Michael Fitzmaurice — Independent Ireland 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.