Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 30 May — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 30 May – 5 Jun 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 30 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 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Voted against 2 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · John Lahart

Property Services (Land Price Register) Bill 2021

2022-06-01 · 1 vote · Social Democrats PMB

A bill to amend and extend the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011 to provide for transparency regarding transactions involving property and for those purposes to expand the…

full description

A bill to amend and extend the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011 to provide for transparency regarding transactions involving property and for those purposes to expand the register that records residential property sales prices, to establish a land and other non-residential property transaction database and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 51–70

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Voted against 2 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · John Lahart

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-05-31 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 69–51

Voted for 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Ciarán Ahern — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Colm Brophy — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Tourism 4 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department will ensure that the exclusion of persons from the National Famine Commemoration Day will not reoccur. [27828/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the reason that her Department gave 24 days' notice for the National Famine Commemoration Day 2022 for Irish persons residing at home and abroad (details supplied). [27829/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her views on the best way that her Department can ensure a respectful, publicly inclusive National Famine Commemoration Day in 2023. [27830/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the reason that voice coaches are specifically excluded from the new artists subvention scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27854/22]
Children 3 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that the national childcare scheme addresses affordability for parents; the percentage reduction in costs that the scheme will yield for parents in 2022 and over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27903/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the next steps with regard to the establishment of a national memorial and archive for survivors of institutional abuse; when works will commence at the proposed Dublin 1 site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28468/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department’s strategy to deliver increased domestic violence refuge provision across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28466/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be granted an appointment with a consultant in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin regarding their carpal tunnel syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27899/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given a date for an operation in the Mater Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27900/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Transport the number of incidents and injuries for the past five years that have been reported due to cyclists getting caught in the Luas tracks in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27783/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-05-31 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons that were appointed to each junior counsel panel at the State Claims Agency; if they were previously on the State Claims Agency panel; if not, if they are new appointments. [27782/22]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 3 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Foreign 4 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department will cancel a passport application (details supplied) which will allow for the resubmission of an application by this person. [27345/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the Israeli High Court ruling on 4 May 2022 in favour of demolishing 12 communities in Masafer Yatta and displacing thousands of residents under the claim of being present in a firing zone area; if he will make representations to the Israeli government to halt the expulsion and forced transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27739/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of two Bahrainis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28611/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will request that a passport application by a person (details supplied) is expedited given that the delay has been caused due to an error in the Garda station when singing as a witness and not due to the fault of the applicant or their guardians. [28495/22]
Housing 3 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 283 and 284 of 17 May 2022 (details supplied) in regard to No. 14 of the licence, if he will provide details regarding the way that hares are distinguished from each other and the way it is known which location a hare is to be released back to. [27713/22]
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to ensure that there is a greater supply of long-term rental accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27737/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the last independent survey using objective research methods was carried out on the population of wild hares in Ireland. [28604/22]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 283 and 284 of 17 May 2022, his views that it would be better practice to have coursing specifically detailed in the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 rather than regulation by the organisation (details supplied). [27714/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has ever been a consultation between his Department and an organisation (details supplied) regarding hare coursing. [28606/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 706 and 707 of 24 May 2022, if he will address a query regarding a television documentary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28607/22]
Social 2 questions
- 2022-05-31 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a 65 year-old person in receipt of rental income greater than €7,500 per annum is eligible for the benefit payment for 65 year olds. [27827/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons with a long-Covid diagnosis will be entitled to illness benefits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28600/22]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister. [26003/22]
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress of the programme for Government. [24776/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the actions he will take in relation to the closure of beds in the busiest inpatient unit in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in the country ensure that resources are put in place so that these beds are re-opened as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28505/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will request his Department to launch an awareness campaign for patients and general practitioners to ensure that those with long-Covid can be supported and helped. [28599/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 615, 616 and 618 of 17 May 2022, if she will provide information in relation to the nine extensions referenced; the persons who were included in these extensions; the dates that they were announced; the time periods the extensions were processed; and if conditions were put on those who were included in these visa extensions. [28590/22]
- 2022-06-02 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if her Department will consider an appeal to an application (details supplied). [28630/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-06-01 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if persons who are nursing-home residents will be included in the category of those not to be taxed in the planned vacant property tax in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28300/22]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns