Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 13 Jun — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Jun – 19 Jun 2022 · 5 TDs · 5 bills voted on · 36 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (Resumed)

2022-06-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 64–50

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

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2022-06-15 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 65–51

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

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy

Special Educational Needs School Places

2022-06-15 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 64–51

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

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy

The motion · motion passed 64–51

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

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy

Energy Security

2022-06-15 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 64–50

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

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-06-14 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 65–57

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

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 2 Ciarán Ahern · Paul Murphy

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 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Finance 2 questions
- 2022-06-16 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance when planned changes to corporation tax will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30136/22]
- 2022-06-16 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance the action that he is taking to address economic uncertainty and reduced consumer and business confidence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30135/22]
Public 2 questions
- 2022-06-16 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe for the completion of a new public sector pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30137/22]
- 2022-06-16 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is examining any further expenditure measures to alleviate cost of living pressures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30138/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education the history of her Department’s involvement and policy role in the provision of early-intervention education; the responsibilities of her Department and others in relation to early-intervention education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29323/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the history of his Department’s involvement and policy role in the provision of early-intervention education; the responsibilities of his Department and others in relation to early-intervention education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29324/22]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 0 votes · 28 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 28 total

Health 8 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at the end of March 2022 over 5,458 persons nationally have been assessed by the HSE as needing HSE funded homecare and for whom no carer is available; and if he will engage with homecare providers to ensure a practical solution is provided for this shortage. [29428/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for immediate action on the reform of regulation in the nursing home sector; and his views on the recent submission by the organisation to the Oireachtas Committee on Health which raises a number of issues (details supplied). [29449/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if it was a policy decision to obtain anticipatory prescriptions for end-of-life medications for all residents in nursing homes in 2020 and 2021 including for residents who were otherwise healthy. [29738/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the person who made the decision for nursing homes to decide that residents would be denied access to hospital treatment for Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021. [29739/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if nurses in nursing homes were given additional powers above their grade to make decisions regarding the administration of end-of-life medication without a doctor or palliative specialist examining the resident. [29740/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the amount of temporary assistance payment funding that has being given to nursing homes to date by nursing home or company. [29741/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with a group (details supplied) in relation to the reason that it is calling for an immediate public inquiry. [29742/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1551 of 26 April 2022, if persons who are working for an organisation (details supplied) which is part funded by the HSE, particularly those in a residential setting for adults with disabilities, are entitled to the pandemic bonus payment given that they have not received payment or clarity in relation to when they will receive same. [31193/22]
Transport 4 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount that the Dublin Airport Authority paid in redundancies during the period 2020 to date. [29477/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount that the Dublin Airport Authority will have to pay out in compensation for lost flights due to the queues in Dublin Airport. [29478/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the cost to the Dublin Airport Authority of rehiring workers by outsourcing the recruitment contract to an organisation (details supplied) after the lockdowns and the return of non-restricted international travel. [29479/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the requirement to actively involve disabled persons’ organisations in the public consultation on the new national electric vehicle charging infrastructure strategy (details supplied) in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; if his attention has been drawn to the survey not containing any questions on disability, accessibility or universal design; the steps that his Department will take to ensure that the voices of people with disabilities are being heard in this strategy and in the survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29755/22]
Agriculture 4 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 12 May 2022, if he will request Horse Racing Ireland to explain the discrepancy in figures provided (details supplied); if HRI will provide the names of the horses killed at racecourses and point-to-points and the number of horses injured including the nature of the injuries. [29466/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 906 of 29 March 2022, the reason that the figures provided in his response do not correlate with the figures previously supplied [29484/22]
- 2022-06-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will end the provision of State grants for greyhound racing and ban greyhound exports given the growing movement against the cruelty involved which has prompted the recent announcement by a United Kingdom-based organisation (details supplied) that it is to minimise the importation of greyhounds from Ireland to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/22]
- 2022-06-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and location of rabbit meat farms currently operating in Ireland; the relevant legislation in the area including in relation to slaughtering methods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31460/22]
Justice 3 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to the significant delays experienced by Turkish English language course students with some now going beyond six months waiting for a visa decision; the actions that are being taken by her Department to tackle these waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29689/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice when the decision was made to provide short-term letters of permission on 27 May 2022 to stamp 2 visa holders whose permissions were due to expire on 31 May 2022; and if she will account for any delay between the decision and announcement. [30491/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if her Department communicated with the Department of Transport or the Dublin Airport Authority on the number of persons who would have expected to have to leave the country before 31 May due to the expiration of their permission to stay. [30492/22]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [26004/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [30726/22]
Housing 2 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unlike tenants of local authorities or approved housing bodies, most housing assistance payment tenants also pay an additional top-up payment directly to their landlord to cover the gap between the maximum rent that the local authority will pay and the actual market rent which it has, given that even rent protection zones have seen a legal increase of over 20% since 2016, which is the last time housing assistance payment levels were increased; if his attention has been further drawn to the five proposals that an organisation (details supplied) has suggested to prevent households in receipt of HAP from poverty and risk of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29496/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 10 May 2022, the number of times that dwellings have been deemed to be inactive and notified to his Department by a local authority in the past five years in tabular form. [30345/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence if an exemption can be made in relation to a person (details supplied) due to the circumstances surrounding the unforeseen delays in the application process. [29448/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will request the State Examinations Commission to address an issue in relation to the cohort of students who are due to sit their Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate applied exams in June 2023 who have never sat a State examination, by extending the same adjustments to the State written examination for 2023 as are in place for the 2022 examinations (details supplied). [29500/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the policy under which the payment of child benefit claims for 16 and 17 year olds is only issued for July and August if the child returns to school in September 2022; the system that is in place to inform child benefit recipients that they will not receive their payment in July; the rationale behind this system; and if her Department considered that parents will have to purchase schoolbooks and uniforms in August 2022 without the help of the child benefit payment. [29443/22]
Public 1 question
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the number of special advisers of each Minister as well as the Taoiseach and Tánaiste; the related costs in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31091/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when he intends on implementing the Labour Court recommendation of March 2020 to regularise the contracts of adult education tutors and establish a salary scale given that many AETs are facing into yet another summer of signing on for social welfare; if he will recognise prior service; if he will resolve the outstanding issues relating to contracts of indefinite duration; if he will raise post-2011 entrants' pay to parity with their colleagues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31343/22]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Justice 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Justice the current number of peace commissioners. [30334/22]