Dublin Central — week of Mon, 30 May

What your Dublin Central TDs did this week

Mon, 30 May – 5 Jun 2022 · 4 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 52 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2022-06-01 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 52–66

Voted for 1 Gary Gannon

Did not vote 3 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald · Paschal Donohoe

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-05-31 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 69–51

Voted against 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Paschal Donohoe

Gary Gannon — Social Democrats 2 votes · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 21 total

Further and Higher Education 6 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of SUSI maintenance grants that were paid to recipients on full-time courses whereby disability allowance was declared by the applicant broken down by post Leaving Certificate, undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the academic years 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and to date in 2021/2022, in tabular form. [27504/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time third-level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28497/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to €4,225 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate-level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28498/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending a non-adjacent maintenance grant to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28499/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to €2,415 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28500/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending an adjacent maintenance grant to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28501/22]
Education 4 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a press release from one of the organisations (details supplied) involved in the recently published review of out-of-school education provision, which states that the data it provided in relation to the number of students achieving the Leaving Certificate was misrepresented in page 51 of the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27505/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education to provide the data provided by each of the organisations involved in the recently published review of out-of-school education provision in relation to the number of students achieving the Leaving Certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27506/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when the SNA allocations for the 2022/2023 school year will be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28803/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if her Department is reviewing when the SNA allocations are released; if the information will be released earlier in the school year to reduce the stress caused by school leaders and SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28804/22]
Foreign 3 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the behaviour of the Israeli riot police who stormed a group of mourners as they attempted to carry the coffin of a Palestinian-American journalist (details supplied) from a hospital in east Jerusalem to a church in the Old City and the fact that police fired stun grenades and used batons to beat peaceful mourners and those carrying the coffin which at one point almost fell to the ground; the action other than condemnation that he will propose at European Union level to sanction Israel for this extreme conduct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27502/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport of a child (details supplied) will issue. [27507/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports on the activities of the Israeli military in the past weeks against the Palestinian people (details supplied); and the additional action that he proposes to take at national and European Union-level to advance a solution and alleviate the suffering of these Palestinian communities. [27634/22]
Social 3 questions
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the precise legislative provision that authorises home inspections as envisaged by article 4.2 and 4.3 of the Code of Practice for Social Welfare Inspectors. [28800/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of any circular or memo issued by her Department that authorises home inspections for social welfare inspectors. [28801/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 22 March 2022, if she will provide further information regarding the rules-based approach to reviews; when this approach was initiated in her Department; the approach that existed prior to the rules-based approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28802/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice if marriages of Irish citizens in Utah, USA, are recognised in Ireland in cases in which the ceremonies have taken place virtually; and if not, the reason given that these marriages are entered on the country’s civil register and all legal formalities have been followed. [28798/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice if a marriage licence between persons (details supplied) will be reviewed given that the couple followed all legal formalities and that their marriage is on the civil register in the United States where they married; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28799/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to list the disability consultative groups and members of these groups that her Department engages with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27503/22]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the leaders of the political parties in Northern Ireland following the Stormont elections. [26206/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has liaised with the ESB to ensure that a human rights assessment is carried out on the communities surrounding Colombian mines to ensure the protection of indigenous and local communities who have suffered as a consequence of these mines given that Ireland recommenced purchasing coal from Colombian mines. [28727/22]

Marie Sherlock — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mary Lou McDonald — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27605/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagement with the British Prime Minister following the recent Stormont election. [25801/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the preparation of the language scheme of his Department. [22877/22]
Transport 2 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Transport when he will complete his consideration of a request from the Dublin Port Company, in line with the provision of the Dublin Port superannuation scheme 1996, for his consent to a 2.5% increase in pensions in payment and in deferment under the scheme and if he will address the delay in concluding this matter. [27552/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Transport the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale, in tabular form. [27607/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27595/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27596/22]
Public 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27602/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of staff employed in her Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27606/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27600/22]
Foreign 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27597/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27592/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education the number of staff employed in her Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27593/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff employed in her Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27604/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27591/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27598/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the number of staff employed in her Department, by gender and by civil service salary scale, in tabular form. [27601/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by Civil Service salary scale, in tabular form. [27599/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff employed in his Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27590/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff employed in her Department by gender and by civil service salary scale in tabular form. [27603/22]

Paschal Donohoe — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.