Galway East — week of Mon, 3 Oct

What your Galway East TDs did this week

Mon, 3 Oct – 9 Oct 2022 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Defective Concrete Products Levy

2022-10-05 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 72–60

Voted for 2 Anne Rabbitte · Ciarán Cannon

Voted against 1 Seán Canney

Did not vote 3 Albert Dolan · Louis O'Hara · Peter Roche

The motion · motion passed 72–59

Voted for 2 Anne Rabbitte · Ciarán Cannon

Voted against 1 Seán Canney

Did not vote 3 Albert Dolan · Louis O'Hara · Peter Roche

Albert Dolan — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Louis O'Hara — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Peter Roche — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Seán Canney — Independent 2 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Housing 3 questions
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider supporting apartment owners who need to address fire safety issues in their apartment blocks, given these property owners are not at fault in terms of the problem but are faced with huge bills to have the matter addressed and, in the meantime, lives are endangered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48105/22]
- 2022-10-06 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department will issue the Ministerial Directive and guidelines to local authorities to allow them to process the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49382/22]
- 2022-10-06 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to issue the Ministerial Directive and guidelines to local authorities to allow them to process the new Croí Cónaithe vacant properties grant scheme for rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49383/22]
Health 3 questions
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the amount that is paid to each doctor for the performance of an abortion in a general practitioner-setting; the amount paid to doctors, midwifery, and any other hospital staff for the provision of abortion in a hospital setting; and if either amount has changed since 2019. [48352/22]
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the amount that was spent in relation to abortion provision to community-based groups which provide counselling and provision of abortion; and if he will provide a breakdown of the monies spent on advertising, training, consultancy, legal advice, and any other relevant services in each of the years 2019 to 2021. [48353/22]
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the amount that was paid to general practitioners for carrying-out abortions in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and the total amount paid for abortions carried out in hospital settings separately in that timeframe. [48354/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the low price being paid to electricity microgenerators through the feed-in tariff (details supplied); if he will introduce a scheme in which microgenerators will be incentivised to supply electricity to their neighbours, given this would be subject to low transmission and distribution costs and would avoid a situation where electricity supplied from power stations via the grid is subject to losses of 7 to 8%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47903/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the reason that prior teaching service by a teacher, which has not been reckoned for an incremental credit as teaching, cannot be reckoned as a credit for non-teaching experience (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48099/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will provide funding under the dormant account fund measures to support the employment of people with disabilities given that the present three-year funding expires in December 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48398/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-10-04 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will change the rules in relation to the three-year residency for children born outside the European Union whose parents have returned to Ireland to allow the children to become eligible for grants for third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48407/22]