Cork North-Central — week of Mon, 20 Jun

What your Cork North-Central TDs did this week

Mon, 20 Jun – 26 Jun 2022 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 79 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services

2022-06-22 · 3 votes

A sub-amendment · motion failed 52–68

Voted for 1 Thomas Gould

Voted against 2 Colm Burke · Pádraig O'Sullivan

Did not vote 2 Eoghan Kenny · Ken O'Flynn

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 68–53

Voted for 2 Colm Burke · Pádraig O'Sullivan

Voted against 1 Thomas Gould

Did not vote 2 Eoghan Kenny · Ken O'Flynn

The motion · motion passed 69–53

Voted for 2 Colm Burke · Pádraig O'Sullivan

Voted against 1 Thomas Gould

Did not vote 2 Eoghan Kenny · Ken O'Flynn

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-06-21 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 66–48

Voted for 2 Colm Burke · Pádraig O'Sullivan

Voted against 1 Mick Barry

Did not vote 3 Eoghan Kenny · Ken O'Flynn · Thomas Gould

Colm Burke — Fine Gael 4 votes · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Housing 4 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the compliance with the new requirement for landlords to register their tenancies with the Residential Tenancies Board annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32884/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if community buildings will be included in the changes to planning rules making it easier to install solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32885/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding to local authorities for the adaptation of homes for older persons and persons with disabilities will be reviewed given the rising costs of construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32889/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social homes provided in County Cork in 2021; the way that the figure compares with the totals for each of the previous seven years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32890/22]
Tourism 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of a successor to the Tourism Action Plan 2019-2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32485/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will report on the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; the details of the operation of the scheme; the geographical spread of the pilot scheme in order that all counties will benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32484/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a progress report on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan; the number of properties connected to 31 May 2022; the number of properties connected in Cork county, and the number of properties pending surveyed in Cork county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32541/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education if consideration will be given by her Department to reclassifying a school (details supplied) as DEIS 1 from its current status as DEIS 2 due to the fact that it is an inner-city school and this status would be more appropriate given the demographics of the students attending the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32279/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a grant available for community associations and groups to train volunteers and staff on how to use defibrillators; if not, if she will confirm that her Department will give consideration to providing such a grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31936/22]

Eoghan Kenny — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Ken O'Flynn — Independent Ireland 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Pádraig O'Sullivan — Fianna Fáil 4 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Tourism 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the measures that are in place to meet labour supply and skills requirements in the tourism sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32267/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funds or programmes that are available to make areas in County Cork a designated Gaeltacht area or to promote the Irish language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32266/22]
Housing 2 questions
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications made per local authority for the single stage process housing scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32948/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding that has been allocated for affordable housing projects in Cork; the status update on these projects; the envisaged timelines for these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32945/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an update on his recent discussions with the British Labour Party Leader Mr. Starmer; if he will provide a further update on the situation in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33181/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has had recent discussions with his European Union counterparts on the need to progress Ukraine’s European Union Membership application to candidate status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for a reduction in the contribution to the ECCE scheme (details supplied); if this can be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33295/22]

Thomas Gould — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 52 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 52 total

Health 29 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive speech and language therapy. [32237/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive occupational therapy. [32238/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive physiotherapy. [32239/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) remains on a waiting list for speech and language therapy. [32240/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the assistant chief nursing officer, who had been leading the progress on nurse prescribing of opioid substitution treatment has left that post; if this person has been replaced; and if the replacement will continue to have responsibility for progressing this vital initiative. [32406/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of the Keltoi facility when it was open. [33106/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of providing a State-owned addiction residential rehabilitation bed. [33107/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the capital cost per bed of providing a State-owned addiction residential rehabilitation service. [33108/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if his Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of opening State-run residential rehabilitation facilities. [33109/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of a State-owned community detox bed. [33110/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the capital cost per bed of providing a State-owned community detox bed. [33111/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the capital cost per bed of providing a State-owned medical detox bed. [33112/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the annual running cost, per bed of providing a State-owned medical detox bed. [33113/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the cost per facility of assessment fees for addiction residential rehabilitation and detox facilities; and the percentage of these fees that were waived in 2021 and to date in 2022, respectively in tabular form. [33114/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the average annual salary of a community development worker in the addiction sector. [33115/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of community development workers employed by the State in each of the drug and alcohol task force areas in tabular form in each drug and alcohol task force. [33116/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the average cost of providing professional supervision, counselling and mental health supports to social worker per worker. [33118/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the average annual salary of an addiction counsellor. [33119/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the cost, per bed of an addiction stepdown residential facility. [33120/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the cost per bed of recovery housing. [33121/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the average length of stay in recovery housing by facility in the years 2015 to date in tabular form. [33122/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the average cost of providing a needle exchange service in a pharmacy. [33123/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of needle exchanges by CHO; and if these are in a pharmacy or mobile in tabular form. [33124/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the annual average cost of providing a mobile needle exchange service; and the capital cost in establishing one. [33125/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the overall cost of the Drug and Alcohol Prevalence survey; the base cost for conducting same; and the additional cost per question. [33126/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost per uncompleted action of completing the unfinished actions in the 2017-2020 Action Plan included in the National Drugs Strategy. [33129/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the cost per year of opioid substitution treatment prescribing as paid to general practitioners. [33130/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the cost difference in nurse prescribing and general practitioner prescribing. [33131/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a business proposal submitted by a club (details supplied). [33375/22]
Housing 12 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received a report from senior counsel regarding alleged conflicts of interest in An Bord Pleanála; and if he will publish same. [32160/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected date for the sale completion of the first phase of Boherboy Road in Cork city. [33132/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will support local authorities that are encountering increased costs due to construction inflation, particularly in situations in which original central Government grant funding is no longer sufficient. [33133/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable houses, by project, in Cork city to be delivered in 2022. [33134/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses to be built by Cork City Council and by Approved Housing Bodies in Cork, respectively, in 2022. [33135/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is satisfied that affordable housing schemes in Cork meet the criteria for affordability; and if he will outline these criteria. [33136/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding given by his Department to local authorities to tackle dereliction. [33137/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the derelict sites levies collected by each local authority in 2021; the amount levied; the number of sites on each register and the cumulative amount owed by local authority, in tabular form. [33138/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of units by local authorities that his Department estimates to be vacant and or derelict. [33139/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of whole-time equivalent vacant homes officers by local authority in tabular form. [33140/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targets the vacant homes unit in his Department is working towards to tackle vacancy and dereliction. [32972/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on affordable housing in Cork city; and if he is satisfied with the progress of the scheme. [32973/22]
Tourism 3 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he has met with a sporting organisation (details supplied) to discuss barriers to attendance at games due to scarcity of hotel accommodation and increasing prices. [32193/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has engaged with Cork City Council or stakeholder groups to examine the potential of an urban Gaeltacht on the northside of Cork city. [32194/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the spending in 2021 on Sports Inclusion Grants; and the spending per stream of the grant and the cohort each stream is aimed at supporting. [33117/22]
Children 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an official in his Department will make contact with a person (details supplied) regarding accommodation for Ukrainian refugees given that numerous attempts to contact the International Protection Accommodation Services have been unsuccessful. [31829/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding that was made available for family support services in Budget 2021 was distributed through a tendering process; and the reason the decision was made to engage in competitive tendering for these services. [33127/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passports currently being processed with application addresses in Cork; and the average time for delivery. [32976/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to an international armed soldier presence on a ship in Cork city on 16 June 2022. [32977/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 24 May 2022, if he will instruct the Road Safety Authority to issue an answer on the aforementioned question. [32181/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education the status of the appointment of a project manager and team to oversee the building of a new school for a school (details supplied). [32473/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has met with third level institutions to progress the establishment of a neurology nursing course in this State. [32561/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered a VAT reduction in retrofitting projects. [33141/22]