Dublin Mid-West — week of Mon, 17 Oct

What your Dublin Mid-West TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Oct – 23 Oct 2022 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 59 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 Emer Higgins · Eoin Ó Broin · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Emer Higgins — Fine Gael 1 vote · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Public 1 question
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the visitor numbers to the visitor centre in the Phoenix Park for a specified timeframe (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52246/22]

Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 28 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 28 total

Education 11 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 4 October 2022, if she will confirm that the application for school transport in this case was received before the initial April 2022 deadline; if she will identify the national school referenced in the response as closer; and if she will confirm the patronage of this school. [51125/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the status of a project for a school (details supplied) in Clondalkin; and if she will provide a timeline for the commencement and completion of the works.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51329/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the reason the Irish language allowance previously available to teachers was discontinued; and if there are plans to reintroduce the allowance. [51330/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if consideration will be given to the re-instatement of a band 3 in DEIS for schools that are not successful for entry to band 1 or band 2 but have a higher proportion of students with additional educational needs, from international communities and living in State-subsidised private rented accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51331/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her Department plans to provide professional supervision for teachers and, if not, if it will be considered in order to support teachers dealing with trauma. [51332/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the status of a project for a school (details supplied) in Saggart; and if she will provide a timeline for the commencement and completion of the works. [51333/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education when a school (details supplied) will be provided with an Internet connection. [51334/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the status of a proposed new school under the strategic development zone, SDZ, for an area (details supplied); if she can provide a timeline for the delivery of the school; and if the project will be expedited given the rapidly increasing population in the area. [51448/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the number of school places currently unfilled in schools in Lucan, County Dublin at both primary and secondary school level. [51449/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the steps that her Department is taking to increase capacity in schools across the Lucan, County Dublin area at both primary and secondary level. [51450/22]
- 2022-10-19 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for a school building; and if she will provide a timeline for commencement and completion of the works. [52362/22]
Environment 8 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide update on progress made towards transposing article 2 (15) of the Directive (EU) 2019/944 regarding dynamic electricity price contracts. [51303/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update regarding which of the following articles of Directive (EU) 2019/944 remain to be transposed; and if he will outline the financial penalties that have been imposed, if any, in tabular form. [51304/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of attics that would have been insulated by 2021 assuming that the rate of attic insulation would have continued at the rate seen in 2011 and been maintained in each subsequent year. [51306/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of attics that remain to be insulated. [51307/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including but not limited to oil, gas, electric heat pump and so on for the warmer homes scheme for the year to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51308/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will introduce a ban on advertising and sponsorships by fossil fuel companies; and if not, the reasons. [51961/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the maximum amount that was available to the State to apply for; and the reason that there was no application for the biomethane section of REPowerEU that has a budget of €35 billion. [51962/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is a possibility of mobile phone and broadband blackouts this winter which could leave people unable to make emergency calls in the event of power cuts and if he has consulted the telecommunications industry on risks and mitigation. [52470/22]
Housing 3 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an annual breakdown of the private rented and private ownership homes target for each year with respect to the housing targets set out in page 32 of Housing for All. [51452/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current upper limits per unit for the affordable housing fund and the cost-rental equity loan. [51510/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on his Department's engagement with the European Commission on the implications of State aid rules for financing and development by the Land Development Agency. [51572/22]
Children 3 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children with leave to remain living in direct provision, with a breakdown by local authority area and by household size, one and two-adult household with no children, households with one child, two children and three children and with more than three children. [51978/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme will be extended to those who spent less than the prescribed time period of six months in an institution given that many persons have been excluded from the scheme on this basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52490/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme if it is open to persons to challenge the Commission's interpretation of specific named institutions; and if so, if the process will be outlined. [52491/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport the breakdown of the amount of funding that was provided to each airport for the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [51960/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the annual corporate tax, and other named taxes, paid by the revenues generated by aircraft leasing firms based here in each of the years between 2014 and 2022, in tabular form;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51305/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to delays relating to security clearance for prospective employees of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52004/22]

Mark Ward — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 21 total

Health 16 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if CAMHS provide treatment for young people experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51579/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the total money allocated to mental health in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52590/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the percentage of the overall health budget that has been allocated for mental health in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52591/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the percentage of the overall health budget that has been allocated to mental health for each of the budgets 2019 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52592/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the way in which the additional funding of €14 million will be spent; the services that it will go towards; when these new measures will come into operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52593/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding that will be allocated to the progression of mental health waiting lists; the way in which it will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52594/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding that will be allocated to the progression of peer support and recovery services; the way in which it will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52595/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding that will be allocated to the progression of the roll-out of more digital mental health supports; the way in which it will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52596/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount in euro of the investment earmarked for approved centres to ensure that they comply with the Mental Health Commission's requirements and the centres to which it is allocated, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52597/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding that will be allocated for additional employment and housing supports for persons with mental health difficulties; the way in which the funding will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52598/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount in funding that will be allocated to funding for counselling and psychology training; the way in which the funding will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52599/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52600/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52601/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the additional funding in budget 2023 that has been allocated for child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, excluding existing levels of service; the way in which this funding will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52602/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the additional funding in budget 2023 that has been allocated for eating disorders, excluding existing levels of service; the way in which this funding will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52603/22]
- 2022-10-20 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the additional funding in budget 2023 that has been allocated for primary care psychology, excluding existing levels of service; the way in which this funding will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52604/22]
Education 4 questions
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education when a school (details supplied) will see work commence on their new school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51575/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education if he will provide an update on when a school (details supplied) will receive a permanent school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51576/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education if there are plans to provide clinical supervision to primary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51577/22]
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education if there are plans to expand the DEIS criteria to reflect the changing cultural and economic changes communities are facing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51578/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-10-18 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the scheduled work at Kishogue train station; when work is expected to commence; when work is expected to finish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51911/22]

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.