Dublin Central — week of Mon, 20 Jun

What your Dublin Central TDs did this week

Mon, 20 Jun – 26 Jun 2022 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 40 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-06-21 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 1 Paschal Donohoe

Voted against 1 Mary Lou McDonald

Did not vote 2 Gary Gannon · Marie Sherlock

Gary Gannon — Social Democrats 0 votes · 22 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 22 total

Education 8 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005, having regard to the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 will be included in the review currently under way; if not, the reason for its exclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32817/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the number of notifications made to the Tusla Educational Welfare Support Service in relation to the use of reduced timetables for the current academic year; the number of reduced timetables used for children with special educational needs or disability; and the number of reduced timetables used for children with a Traveller or Roma heritage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32818/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the way that her Department has acted on a report (details supplied) specifically in relation to the merit in a policy providing enhanced opportunities for career guidance training for teachers in special needs schools and in enhancing the access of such schools to wider career guidance supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32819/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if the State Examinations Commission has changed its policy in relation to supporting students who due to unforeseen serious medical circumstances are not able to complete a leaving certificate examination (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33506/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if students who cannot complete leaving certificate examinations due to unforeseen serious medical circumstances are eligible to apply for access to the deferred sittings. [33507/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will respond to claims that the treatment shown to Ukrainian students is preferential to any other children fleeing conflict and war from other regions in the world including Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33508/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she believes that Ireland’s education should equally support all children fleeing conflict and war in the world; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33509/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of expanding the 15 additional teaching hours to all children seeking sanctuary from conflict and war. [33510/22]
Social 7 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is currently a backlog of applications for the one-parent family payment; if so, the number of applications in the backlog; and the average time for processing a one parent family payment application.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32448/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the way that income from scholarships (details supplied) bursaries, stipend or scholarships for PhDs is treated to ensure that it is disregarded for persons in receipt of the disability allowance and blind pensions. [32449/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the gender breakdown for all social welfare inspectors employed by her Department. [32814/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding the fuel allowance to include those in receipt of the working family payment. [33247/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of social welfare overpayments recouped after death in each of the years to 2021. [33248/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the registration provisions for stillbirths following the consultation by the General Register Office. [33249/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider removing the necessity for dependent spouse State pensioners from having to apply separately for dental and optical checks in cases in which they have already been approved by the system. [33250/22]
Tourism 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her attention has been drawn to the barriers for artists with disabilities availing of funding from schemes initiated by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the steps that she is taking to eliminate these barriers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32446/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has had any engagement or interaction with the Minister for Social Protection in relation to ensuring that artists with disabilities do not risk losing their core social protection payments such as disability allowance or blind pension when receiving grants and bursaries from schemes initiated by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32447/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005 that outlines the main provisions of the assessment of needs process will be reviewed having regard to the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 that is currently under review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32816/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons who required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis for 2021. [33251/22]
Foreign 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he received correspondence from this Deputy relating to an issue (details supplied) sent on 30 May 2022; and if a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32813/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to parliamentary question No. 1298 of 14 June 2022, the amount that was recouped from overpayments through student repayments in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [32815/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will purchase the land at Bessborough or investigate if a compulsory purchase order is possible to protect the site from development and to allow for a detailed investigation for burial sites. [33246/22]

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 · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Foreign 1 question
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that parents of multiple children have to make multiple appointments when making an urgent appointment with the Passport Office which will not deal with a single family’s passport applications in one appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33392/22]

Paschal Donohoe — Fine Gael 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns