Dublin Mid-West — week of Mon, 23 May

What your Dublin Mid-West TDs did this week

Mon, 23 May – 29 May 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 89 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2022-05-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 58–70

Voted for 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Voted against 1 Emer Higgins

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages

2022-05-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 60–71

Voted for 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Voted against 1 Emer Higgins

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association

2022-05-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 72–59

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Emer Higgins — Fine Gael 3 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Justice 3 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Justice if she will report on her Department’s progress in increasing the number of women’s refuges available across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26069/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Justice the steps her Department is taking to support victims of crime through the judicial process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26070/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Justice the current position regarding the review of the compulsory retirement age for members of An Garda Síochána; when an announcement on the matter will be forthcoming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26316/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Education if adjustments will be made to the leaving certificate examination 2023 to compensate for the disruptions experienced by current fifth year students as a result of Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26326/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection when the Government response to the Pensions Commission Report is expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26317/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health when the expansion of general practitioner care without charges to children aged six and seven years of age is expected to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26329/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Transport when the application process for the electric small public service vehicle (eSPSV2) grant scheme will be un-paused to allow for new applicants to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26923/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn by An Garda Síochána to the significant irregularities in the postal voting system in County Sligo in 2019; if so, the nature of those irregularities; and his plans to ensure that such irregularities cannot occur again in any local authority. [27103/22]

Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 27 total

Environment 16 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the microgeneration support scheme will be established; and when microgenerators will begin receiving payments. [25815/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if each State body (details supplied) is exempt from obligations under the Climate Amendment Act 2021 given that they are exempt from freedom of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, in tabular form. [25816/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the data required (details supplied) for a social impact assessment is collected as part of the warmer homes scheme under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's 2020 inconclusive social impact assessment in tabular form. [25817/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of VAT paid on solar panels in schemes administered by his Department.. [25819/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline the programme, proposed outputs and timeline for the pilot to achieve B2 retrofits in the warmer homes scheme. [25820/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of the cost of retrofitting a dwelling to B2 under the better energy community grant scheme. [25821/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average depth of retrofit of each retrofit scheme in 2021 and in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25822/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits completed per month under the warmer homes scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [25823/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost of completion per dwelling under the warmer homes scheme for each of the years 2019 to 2022. [25824/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the value for money of each of the retrofit schemes expressed as estimated CO2 savings per Euro invested in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25825/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the number of installed oil and gas-boilers from both the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing scheme for the years 2016-2022, in tabular form. [26224/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of funds spent on installed oil and gas boilers from both the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing scheme for the years 2016-2022, in tabular form. [26225/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes that have received retrofit works from both the energy-efficiency obligation scheme and the retrofit schemes operated by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland per year for the years 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [26227/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the emissions saved per-retrofit scheme for the years 2016-2020, in tabular form. [26228/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of each retrofit scheme per kWh of primary energy saved annually and per-lifetime tCO2 saved over 15 years, in tabular form. [26229/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will outline the number of dwellings that were assessed for a heat pump for the years 2019 to 2022; and the number of dwellings that failed to pass that assessment for the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [26230/22]
Housing 6 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the expression of interest document that his Department and the Housing Agency are circulating to developers related to the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [26270/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all the developers, building contractors, professional organisations and others that his Department and the Housing Agency consulted in developing the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [26271/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a standard developer's margin will be permitted in the market price charged for apartments benefiting from the croí cónaithe cities scheme.. [26272/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if build to rent apartments with the build to rent design standards will not be eligible to apply for funding via the croí cónaithe cities scheme.. [26273/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that all allegations of conflicts of interest, allegations of inappropriate decisions and behaviour and allegations of inappropriate relationships with planning or potential planning applicants by members of An Bord Pleanála are included in a report by a person (details supplied) commissioned on these matters by him. [26868/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the details of funded housing programmes including social housing, affordable purchase housing, cost rental housing, private sector activation schemes broken down by scheme, funding allocation, funding drawdown, delivery targets and actually delivery in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form. [26869/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if there are 29 ASD classes at primary-level and 1.5 ASD classes at second level in schools in the Dublin mid-west area; and her plans to rectify the discrepancy between the number of placements at primary and secondary level across this area. [26867/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if the reconfiguration pilot scheme for primary schools has commenced; if an area (details supplied) was included in the pilot scheme; if it is possible for communities to request reconfiguration of schools in their area; and if the public will have any role in consultation in relation to reconfiguration. [27105/22]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office considers grants that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland provides for oil and gas-powered boilers under the retrofit schemes as subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry. [26226/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue raised through VAT on solar panels. [25818/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if he will increase the number of nurses working in neurology services in a hospital (details supplied). [25661/22]

Mark Ward — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 40 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 40 total

Health 35 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the current and capital cost of establishing and operating a 24/7 multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalating team in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26245/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 16 September 2021, the status of the first pilot site for a dual diagnosis team planned for CHO3; the breakdown of staffing and costing per team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25965/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1839 of 19 January 2022, the cost of developing a liaison psychiatry model of care as per a Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26662/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully staffing and operating all 73-child and adult mental health services teams in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26663/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully staffing and operating one community adult mental health team including premiums and ER PSRI as well as none pay costs in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26664/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the current, capital and operating cost to fully implement the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26665/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the current, capital and operating cost of one fully staffed crisis resolution team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26666/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the capital cost of running a crisis community café, the free out-of-hours adult mental health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26667/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of staffing all emergency departments with liaison psychiatrists for one year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26668/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of regulation of counselling and psychotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26669/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing cross sectoral training for dual diagnosis for all existing staff in each drug and alcohol services in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26670/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing cross sectoral training for dual diagnosis for all existing staff in each mental health services in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26671/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 657 of 8 March 2022, the estimated cost to restore pay cut for consultant psychiatrics that was imposed in 2012, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26672/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of re-appointing a national director for mental health for a one-year basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26673/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated current and capital cost of establishing and operating a dual diagnosis team in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26674/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of a dual diagnosis team by staff funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26675/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of having a specialist children’s mental health bed within an adult acute psychiatric unit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26676/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated current and capital cost of implementing the Government's plan for inpatient and outpatient perinatal mental health care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26677/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the cost to fully implement the National Clinical Programme for ADHD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26678/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the cost to fully implement the National Clinical Programme for Early Intervention Psychosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26679/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fully implement the National Clinical Programme for Self-Harm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26680/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fully implement the model of care for Mental Health Services for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26681/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to increase mental health inpatient bed capacity by 50-beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26682/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to increase funding to homeless mental health services by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26683/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fully implement the recommendations of the Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community for each recommendation in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26684/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost to increase funding for recovery education by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26685/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of developing a rural mental health model of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26686/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding community mental health services in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26687/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the status of the national review of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS, following the mistreatment of children in south Kerry CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26377/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health his views on a study by the Maynooth University centre for mental health and community research that has led to calls for the implementation of a family focused approach to treatment in cases in which parental illness is identified and if the Government has plans to introduce a family focused approach to mental health treatment. [26279/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the reason that the Keltoi Rehabilitation Centre in St. Marys Hospital, Phoenix Park remains closed; when the centre will re-open for addiction services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26280/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the closure of 11 of the 23 beds in a unit (details supplied); when this occurred; and the reason for same. [27034/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of under-18 admissions to psychiatric inpatient facilities in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [27087/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescent on waiting lists for Linn Dara, CAMHS; and the average waiting times. [27088/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of having a specialist children’s mental health bed within each adult acute psychiatric unit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27207/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice the number of community gardaí in the Clondalkin, Ronanstown, Lucan and Rathcoole Garda stations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24872/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice the criteria to make an application to the Community Safety Innovation Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24871/22]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement that his Department had with other Departments in relation to a cross-Departmental approach to funding a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26717/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding streams that are available through his Department for urban horse facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26718/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education the provisions and plans that are in place to supply additional ASD classes in secondary schools in the Rathcoole, Newcastle, Brittas and Saggart areas of Dublin. [26294/22]

Paul Nicholas Gogarty — Independent 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Shane Moynihan — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.