Dublin Central — week of Mon, 5 Dec

What your Dublin Central TDs did this week

Mon, 5 Dec – 11 Dec 2022 · 4 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 28 questions · 2 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Air Transport Agreement

2022-12-07 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 76–46

Voted for 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Did not vote 3 Gary Gannon · Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-12-06 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 70–53

Voted for 1 Neasa Hourigan

Voted against 2 Gary Gannon · Mary Lou McDonald

Did not vote 2 Marie Sherlock · Paschal Donohoe

Gary Gannon — Social Democrats 1 vote · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Housing 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the rising number of elderly people living on the brink of homelessness (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61011/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ringfence some social housing for persons coming out of care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61012/22]
Children 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of notifications of alleged sex abuse since 2020 (details supplied) which are yet to be investigated in tabular form. [61009/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider increasing funding for a charity (details supplied) supporting adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, after it had to close its waiting list for psychotherapy for four months of 2021 given that the waiting period went beyond one year. [61010/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will write to the leaders of all religious orders that run and have run schools to remind them of their obligation to retain all records in relation to abuse allegations (details supplied). [61013/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection when community employment ex-gratia payments are to be processed; and if it will be in 2022. [60357/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland is an outlier in Europe in relation to Colombian nationals requiring a short-stay visa to travel to Ireland, unlike the rest of the EU and the UK; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60356/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to improve the working conditions faced by occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60358/22]

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 · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Children 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has increased the renewed 2023 core funding provided by his Department to community development organisations in receipt of funding for the current and previous years to provide for increased operating costs arising from inflation, energy costs and related outgoings. [60659/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the new National Strategy for Women and Girls for 2022 to 2025 will be published; and if the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, which includes the National Strategy for Women and Girls, as well as the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy, will be published in early 2023 as committed to earlier this year. [61550/22]
Justice 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she will now initiate a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) as instructed by the Dáil on the 14 June 2018 in view of the completion of the scoping exercise. [60658/22]
- 2022-12-07 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice when she intends to publish the report on the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61112/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that persons applying for social housing or a social housing transfer due to a disability or medical grounds must provide medical references from two separate healthcare professionals when completing the HMD form 1; if he is aware that persons applying for other State supports due to disability or medical grounds are required to provide just one medical reference; and if he is aware of the difficulties arising from this procedure for vulnerable and elderly people. [60760/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the difference between accommodation that promotes itself as Fáilte Ireland-registered and Fáilte Ireland-approved; and if she is concerned at the confusion that may arise for consumers, particularly those visiting from outside the island. [61442/22]

Paschal Donohoe — Fine Gael 1 vote · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

Irish Hairdressers Federation · 2 returns Employment · Budgetary matters
- PRSI exemptions
- VAT to remain at 9% for the Hairdressing Sector