Meath West — week of Mon, 13 Jun — Watch Them Work

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Jun – 19 Jun 2022 · 3 TDs · 5 bills voted on · 37 questions · 1 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 against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2022-06-15 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 65–51

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

Special Educational Needs School Places

2022-06-15 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 64–51

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

The motion · motion passed 64–51

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

Energy Security

2022-06-15 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 64–50

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-06-14 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 1 Damien English

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Foreign 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the average number of Passport Office staff working from home; the average number working in the office for each of the Passport Offices for each month of 2022 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29825/22]

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 0 votes · 36 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 36 total

Foreign 11 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the average waiting time for a regular passport in the State; the longest waiting time for a passport in 2022; the number of staff who are working in the Passport Service; the number of passports that it has processed this year; and the average waiting time for a diplomatic passport. [28984/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has compiled an inventory of Russian assets held in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29146/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the State has frozen or confiscated any Russian assets in Ireland; and if so, if he will list these assets. [29147/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has compiled a list of Russian assets in the State; and if so, if he will provide a list of assets which have not been frozen or confiscated by the State. [29148/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has put in place additional supports for the welfare of staff at the Passport Office and the Oireachtas passport helpline due to the volume of applications and queries they have to process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29536/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount that his Department has given to organisations (details supplied) in each of the past five years; if his Department has given money to organisations that have board members, directors, staff and employees that were members of former or existing paramilitary organisations; if so, the name of these organisations; the level of funding that has been given to each in each of the past five years; the steps that are taken to ensure that any organisation in receipt of funding from his Department has no toleration of sectarianism or community control; if all funds allocated by his Department are fully and openly competed for by way of a tender process or other transparent and fair competition; and if not, the recipients of funds that were not allocated by a tender process or open and transparent competition. [30515/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline the recruitment process of his Department in recruiting persons to positions as ambassadors; and if he will clarify whether or not such processes were followed in the recruitment of the new British Ambassador. [31347/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the position of the Irish Ambassador to Britain was publicly advertised; the number of persons who applied for the job; the number of persons who were interviewed for the jobs; and the dates upon which these interviews were conducted. [31348/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a curriculum vitae for a person (details supplied) was received by his Department in advance of his appointment to the position of Irish Ambassador to Britain. [31349/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline the diplomatic background of a person (details supplied); and if he will clarify whether the person has sat diplomatic exams. [31350/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will list the languages a person (details supplied) is fluent in. [31351/22]
Health 10 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if an assessment of need for a child (details supplied) will be expedited. [28857/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if a positron emission tomography scan can be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will address the reason for the long waiting list for the particular scan involved in this case. [29028/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of cancelled hospital appointments in the State broken down by individual hospital in each of the past five years and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [29231/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the proportion of the 314,000 additional public patients on waiting lists are on the waiting lists due to postponed or denied treatment because of health service closures during Covid. [29253/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if an investigation has been undertaken by his Department in relation to the person or body that made the decision to close the emergency departments in Nenagh and Ennis hospitals; the way this has contributed to the record overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick; and if a person or body will be held to account for these decisions. [29446/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 29 March 2022, if a marketing company (details supplied) has submitted a pricing and reimbursement application; and if it will be made available to medical card holders if medically indicated by a doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29501/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the assessment of need for a child (details supplied) who will be unable to access their right to education through an ASD unit within a school setting without a formal diagnosis and intervention supports and who is not eligible for the domiciliary care allowance. [29727/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 25 May 2022 (details supplied), the advice that National Immunisation Advisory Committee would provide in such circumstances and if it can be left to the discretion of their doctor; if the HSE details and guidelines for Covid boosters for high risk children and their carers can be made available as soon as possible in view that currently only guidelines are available for high risk vulnerable adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31136/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the investigations he has carried out into the increase adverse incidents that have happened in hospitals around the country; and the investigations HIQA has carried out into the overcrowding at each hospital in the State. [31145/22]
- 2022-06-15 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the investigations that HIQA has carried out into the decisions made by senior HSE management to close capacity in the health service that has directly led to overcrowding in hospitals (details supplied); if he has investigated this and the contribution these closures had on the overcrowding in Limerick; and if he has investigated the people who made the decisions to close them. [31146/22]
Children 5 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the access-and-inclusion model payments will be reviewed for September 2022 in line with the employment regulation order given that currently there is a shortfall in funding per-AIM support worker that is subsidised by the provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29143/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to extend the access-and-inclusion model support beyond the three hours for children with additional needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29144/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the access-and-inclusion model payment of €14 per hour to a maximum of 15 hours will be increased to cover the employer shortfall on employer PRSI and accrued leave given the increase in salary scale due to the impending employment regulation order. [29145/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who were referred to Tusla in 2021; and the location from which they were referred; the person or body that referred them; and the reason they were referred. [29404/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to an increase in the number of children being referred to Tusla in each year; if his Department has undertaken any study as to the reason that the number is increasing; his views on the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29405/22]
Housing 2 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the terms and conditions for Fresh Start applicants under the local authority home loan scheme to include circumstances in which one of the former partners who remains in the home, and takes over full responsibility for the mortgage, can qualify for the scheme to prevent a sale of the family home and homelessness during a national housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29495/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he identifies the number of houses that are bought by private companies each year in order to understand the ownership trends in the market; if a company (details supplied) is buying up homes; and if so, the number of homes that it owns within the market at the moment. [30354/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education if young children in primary schools will be taught about transgender politics/ideology; if so, the scientific basis that exists behind the material to be delivered; if she will give references to the medics and scientists behind this material; the ages that this will be delivered at; and if parents will have the right to withdraw their children from these classes. [29044/22]
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education if she has informed herself and conducted any analysis in relation to the number of primary schools that have vacant places in ASD units currently which cannot be availed of due to the waiting times for children of school going age waiting for an assessment of need; and if she has discussed the issue with the Minister for Health and the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29415/22]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the amount that his Department has given to organisations (details supplied) in each of the past five years; if his Department has given money to organisations that have board members, directors, staff and employees that were members of former or existing paramilitary organisations; if so, the name of these organisations; the level of funding that has been given to each in each of the past five years; the steps that are taken to ensure that any organisation in receipt of funding from his Department has no toleration of sectarianism or community control; if all funds allocated by his Department are fully and openly competed for by way of a tender process or other transparent and fair competition; and if not, the recipients of funds that were not allocated by a tender process or open and transparent competition. [30516/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the amount that has been raised in tolls on the East Link Bridge in each of the past 20 years; and if the Government will reduce or scrap the tolls to ease the cost-of-living burden on commuters. [29254/22]
Public 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts that are being undertaken by the State to expand flood-relief measures beyond built-up areas (details supplied) in County Wexford to support low-lying houses in the area which are at risk from flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29150/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update on a meeting with officials from her Department regarding the live performance support scheme (details supplied). [30847/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence the role that the Army has in the guarding of prisoners in Irish prisons; the number of prisoners who are guarded and their locations; the number of man-hours which are spent by the Army in guarding prisoners annually; the pay which soldiers receive for each hour guarding prisoners; the way that this compares with prison officer pay for each hour guarding prisoners; the allowances which are provided to soldiers for this work; and the way that this compares with prison officer allowances for guarding prisoners. [29051/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-06-14 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of her Department’s engagement with the Spanish pensions office to obtain information regarding the work and pension contributions history in Spain of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is having difficulties in gaining a response from the Spanish pensions office. [28943/22]

New lobbying 1 return

Marc Coleman Children and Youth Affairs
- Promoting improved funding of early childcare on behalf of client