Dún Laoghaire — week of Mon, 17 Oct

What your Dún Laoghaire TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Oct – 23 Oct 2022 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 31 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages

2022-10-19 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 9–118

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Richard Boyd Barrett

Barry Ward — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Cormac Devlin — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Education 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51386/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to support women who were impacted by mesh implants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51387/22]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill — Fine Gael 1 vote · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Health 4 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS pharmacists throughout Ireland; the location that each pharmacist is based; if there is any data on the number of people each pharmacist serves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51811/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Health if there has ever been a survey done of non-consultant/SPR hospital doctors on their working conditions, number of consecutive days worked and their annual leave allocated and taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51721/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Health if the HSE or hospitals have ever conducted exit interviews on doctors leaving the Irish medical system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51720/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Health the provisions that will be made for third year counselling trainee psychologists who will not benefit from the new funding support announced in the Budget 2023 and have invested €50,000 in their doctorate fees over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52472/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Justice her views on the possibility of including time accrued with student and graduate visas towards the five-year residency required to apply for citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51376/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide details of funding, resources and so on that are available in Budget 2023 for the domestic violence sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51377/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of women who are currently completing apprenticeships across Ireland; the steps that are being taken to continually increase participation rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51010/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Education her support in securing a meeting for a school (details supplied) with the planning and building unit of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51948/22]

Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity 0 votes · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 21 total

Further and Higher Education 7 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and postgraduates across multiple sectors of Ireland’s economy and public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51823/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps that he intends to take to address the inequality in and the inadequacy of stipends across PhD research students which is now exacerbated by the recent Budget 2023 increase of €500 only to those in receipt of SFI and IRC stipends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51700/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to address the chronic shortage of affordable accommodation for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51703/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will abolish the fees for graduate entry medicine programmes, given the chronic shortage of doctors across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51701/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will ensure that all postgraduate psychology students are provided with funded doctorate programmes and to end the discrepancies in funding between clinical, educational and counselling psychologists; if he will abolish all fees for these programmes to address the chronic shortage of these professionals across the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51702/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and postgraduates across multiple sectors of Ireland’s economy and public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51704/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, as an urgent measure, he will look into reforming the need for social work students to do four months unpaid full-time placements, especially in view of the need for more social workers in the country and the current cost of-living-crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51831/22]
Taoiseach 6 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [48746/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [49963/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue unit of his Department. [50102/22]
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a timeline for future citizens’ assemblies. [50103/22]
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, NESC. [50104/22]
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [51710/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the person who is responsible for inviting four separate NATO-connected warships to visit Cork harbour in recent months; the reason that such invitations were issued; if these warships having been welcomed into Irish ports or allowed to use Ireland’s seas violates the Hague Convention on Neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52044/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the State has ratified or signed the Hague Convention on Neutrality (V); the plans that exist for Ireland to come into full compliance with the Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52045/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital; the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist when a referring GP submits an urgent request at the same hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51430/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the action that he intends to take concerning the ongoing inability to staff the disability network teams; the impact that is having on early intervention for children with developmental delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50101/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will devise an alternative process other than the MRPN system for those on sub meters to access the electricity grants to ensure that those who are already struggling do not fall into energy poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51424/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will instruct NAMA to urgently pay for the remediation costs of the building defects leading to fire safety and water ingress issues at a location (details supplied); if he will ask NAMA for an explanation as to the reason that it has not done this to date when receivers controlled by NAMA in the neighbouring estate reportedly carried out similar remediation works for defects; if he will investigate whether NAMA have and are currently selling apartments in the complex without informing purchasers of the defects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51095/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the arms industry companies from Ireland and other parts of the world that attended the recent 6 October 2022 arms fair, organised by the Department of Defence in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52081/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the call from a group (details supplied) for forest premiums in the next forestry programme not to be available to large scale institutional forestry investment funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52086/22]