Dublin Mid-West — week of Mon, 20 Jun

What your Dublin Mid-West TDs did this week

Mon, 20 Jun – 26 Jun 2022 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 36 questions · 1 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 2 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny

Voted against 1 Emer Higgins

Did not vote 3 Mark Ward · Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 68–53

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 2 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny

Did not vote 3 Mark Ward · Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

The motion · motion passed 69–53

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 2 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny

Did not vote 3 Mark Ward · Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-06-21 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 1 Eoin Ó Broin

Did not vote 3 Mark Ward · Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Emer Higgins — Fine Gael 4 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Tourism 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her plans to help rebuild Ireland’s tourism sector which had achieved record numbers of visitors prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. [32198/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will set out the plan to achieve the commitment of the previous government to double investment in arts and culture by 2025. [32199/22]
Housing 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the rate of compliance with the new requirement for landlords to register their tenancies with the Residential Tenancies Board annually. [32806/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of national housing completions annually since 2016; and the number in the 12 months between Q2 2021 and Q1 2022, and also for Dublin. [32807/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland's present National Sexual Health Strategy runs to 2020; if he intends to update the strategy; if he will be consulting on the new strategy; the timeline for the new strategy to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32546/22]
- 2022-06-22 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health the strategy for supporting and treating persons with long-Covid. [33035/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contribution of Ireland to ensuring the safety of journalists, photographers and other members of the media. [32918/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the priorities during Ireland’s six-month presidency of the Council of Europe. [32902/22]

Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 14 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 14 total

Housing 12 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of affordable cost rental at a location (details supplied); the level of affordable housing fund allocated; and the estimated cost of the cost rental homes. [32018/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of affordable homes on the glass bottle factory site in the Poolbeg SDZ; if he will provide a list of meetings held by him in the past six months with stakeholders; the name of the stakeholders; and the details of progress on the delivery of affordable purchase or affordable cost rental homes on the site. [32019/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of social housing delivery to date; the number of schemes and units that have been delivered as part of the new build and acquisitions by each local authority and including approved housing body activity to the most recent date for which data is available. [32020/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional measures he is taking to address the alarming increase in homelessness in recent months. [33472/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable housing in areas (details supplied). [33473/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the delay in the sale of affordable housing in Cork city and south County Dublin. [33474/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the review of the social housing income thresholds; and if he will indicate whether he intends to raise the thresholds. [33082/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans with respect to funding and support for the four Limerick regeneration areas post the end of the current projects in 2024. [33085/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details the work of his Department with respect to the refurbishment of large vacant buildings to provide emergency accommodation of Ukrainian refugees. [33084/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans with respect to the Mulcahy Report into planning matters in County Donegal; if he intends to take action on the matter; and if he intends to publish the report. [33083/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will detail his engagement with the banks on the issue of mortgage provision for households purchasing local authority affordable homes; and if his attention has been drawn to pillar banks refusing mortgages to potential buyers on the grounds that the property is funded via the Affordable Housing Fund. [33086/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the proposed scheme that will support first-time buyers to repair derelict properties; and if he will provide a timeframe for the opening of the scheme. [33378/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the steps that he has taken to date on ensuring a contribution from relevant industries to the funding for dealing with defective block and or future defective building remediation; if he will provide a list of all meetings to date; the dates when these meetings occurred; if he will provide a report from the meetings; and the plans on the issue of industry contributions at this time. [32021/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) who started their adoption tracing process in September 2020 is yet to be assigned a social worker. [32576/22]

New lobbying 1 return

Social Justice Ireland Housing
- Meeting with Deputy Eoin ÓBroin TD on our Housing Costs and Poverty 2022 policy briefing.

Mark Ward — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Health 5 questions
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the progress on the refurbishment in Mount Carmel including any additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32158/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the recruitment plans the HSE have to fill vacant mental health nursing posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32159/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing Traveller mental health funding by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32529/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the make-up of a crisis resolution team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32536/22]
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the current and capital cost of establishing and operating a 24/7 multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalating team in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32537/22]
Housing 2 questions
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to homelessness and, in particular, the rising levels of family homelessness and the lack of homeless temporary accommodation in the past 12 months. [32748/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will introduce a rent freeze to take cost of living pressures of workers and families and to stop them entering homelessness. [32747/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the plans that are in place to tackle the backlog in issuing passports. [32745/22]
- 2022-06-23 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will consider as a matter of urgency opening a passport office in Belfast in view of the current backlog and volume of applications on the island of Ireland including an unprecedented number from the North of Ireland. [32746/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-06-21 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Transport the reason the National Transport Authority ceased the 88X bus route and curtailed the 51D bus routes; and if the service will be returned. [31780/22]

Paul Nicholas Gogarty — Independent 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Shane Moynihan — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.