Dublin Mid-West — week of Mon, 5 Dec

What your Dublin Mid-West TDs did this week

Mon, 5 Dec – 11 Dec 2022 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 53 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Air Transport Agreement

2022-12-07 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 76–46

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 2 Eoin Ó Broin · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-12-06 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Emer Higgins — Fine Gael 2 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Environment 3 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason for the exclusion of glass bottles in the recently announced deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60562/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if extenuating priority consideration can be given to applicants for the one stop shop full grant house BER improvement scheme in cases in which a person is terminally ill and requires their home to be made warmer and more comfortable for health reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60588/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason that a group of 95 apartment owners can avail of domestic rate electricity usage in respect of their apartments but have to pay commercial rate usage on the lighting of common areas, halls, stairways landings, corridors and so on in their apartment block; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61560/22]
Social 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures are in place to assist people who feel their pension was devalued by mismanagement through wind up, (details supplied). [60584/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider adapting the living-alone allowance criteria to allow a person to rent a room in their home to an international healthcare worker who has come to Ireland to work, without this impacting on their living alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60608/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to address the long wait times for home care packages in CHO 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61343/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health the steps that his Department is taking to address the long wait times for respite services for people with intellectual disabilities in the CHO 7 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61344/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Justice her plans to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour in our capital city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60629/22]
Foreign 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 29 November 2022, if he will provide a sectoral breakdown as between pharmaceutical, financial services, aircraft leasing, migration-work permits, interstate adoptions, miscellaneous notarial certs and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60664/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are in place to support mothers of children under three years of age who cannot find childcare before they return to work after maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60193/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-12-07 Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has engaged with the HSE to examine if a site at Crooksling, Brittas, County Dublin is suitable for use for medium-term accommodation for Ukrainian refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61110/22]

Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 22 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 22 total

Housing 11 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional gross and net annual cost to the state of every €1,000 increase to the social housing eligibility income thresholds up to €10,000 in tabular form. [60520/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated additional annual expenditure that would be required from the Exchequer on the housing assistance payment by increases to the income eligibility thresholds for social housing in €1,000 increments from €1,000 to €10,000 respectively; and the number of additional households that it is estimated would become eligible for HAP as a consequence of the same increases in tabular form. [60521/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average HAP payment per recipient funded by the Exchequer; and the average cost to the State per recipient net of differential rents. [60522/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the gross and net average cost to the State per HAP recipient. [60523/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average differential rent paid in the State. [60524/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of additional persons that became eligible for HAP in counties Carlow, Clare, Laois, Westmeath and Galway as a result of the decision in September 2022 to increase the social housing eligibility income thresholds by €5,000; and the percentage increase to the number of HAP recipients prior to the move that this equates to in tabular form. [60525/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated additional annual gross and net cost to the State of the decision in September 2022 to increase the social housing eligibility income thresholds by €5,000 in counties Carlow, Clare, Laois, Westmeath and Galway. [60529/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated number of additional households that would become eligible for social housing supports if the band 3 threshold was further revised from €30,000 to €35,000; and the estimated cost of supports for them. [60722/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated additional gross and net cost of social housing supports for the 16,000 additional households that will become eligible as a result of the decision announced on 29 November 2022 to increase the baseline thresholds; the breakdown of the cost estimate; and the estimated projected number of these 16,000 households that will be eligible for HAP due to shortage of social housing. [60723/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the review of social housing income eligibility or his Department otherwise considered changes to the treatment of family income supplement or the income of adult children who are unable to leave the family home due to the housing crisis; if so, the changes considered; the estimated numbers impacted by; and the estimated cost of the changes. [60724/22]
- 2022-12-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the legal basis for his appointment of an interim chair to An Bord Pleanála. [61144/22]
Education 4 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the number of fifth class places currently available in primary schools in an area (details supplied). [60190/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the available supports related to school transport for students who cannot obtain a school place in their locality during the school year and must continue to travel to schools a distance away from their home. [60191/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the fact that secondary schools in Clondalkin, Dublin 22 are already operating waiting lists for the 2023-2024 school year, that numbers on these lists are significant; if her Department intends to provide increased resources in order for secondary schools in the area to increase their intake; and if there are other actions her Department is considering in order to ensure enough school places for young people in the area. [60661/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if there is a shortfall of approximately 90 school places between the number of 6th class school places and 1st year school places across schools in the Clondalkin area. [60662/22]
Environment 3 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on whether a ban on advertising and sponsorships by fossil fuel companies would be a good policy decision; and if not, the reason for same. [60275/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department is considering further support payments to households in order to assist in meeting increased fuel costs. [60322/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration will be given to allowing households transfer the €200 electricity credit payment onto their fuel accounts in order to assist in meeting fuel costs. [60323/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of the panel that makes the decisions regarding the Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the criteria on which nominees are judged. [60842/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there is a timeframe on posthumous nominations regarding the Presidential Distinguished Service Awards; if so, if this impacts the assessment of a nomination; if posthumous nominations can be resubmitted if unsuccessful; and the way posthumous nominations are assessed against nominations of individuals who are alive. [60843/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport if there are issues relating to the number of airport police or gardaí deployed at Dublin Airport; and if he will explain the reason there were no police or Garda personnel available to provide assistance at the airport on a specific date (details supplied). [60310/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Residential Property Services has been transferred to the LDA; if so, when this transfer happened; the number of residential units held by NARPS on transfer; the value of these properties; and the number of these properties currently in social housing leasing arrangements. [60939/22]

Mark Ward — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Health 5 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of mental health peer support workers to be recruited by CHO area including trainee staff; the current number of peer support workers employed by the HSE by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60424/22]
- 2022-12-07 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if genetic counsellors will be recognised as a profession in Ireland; when accredited training for genetic counselling will begin in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61279/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the terms of reference and timeframe for the Mental Health Commission review into child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS; if he will outline the concerns raised by the Mental Health Commission with the HSE and the nature of those concerns; if he will outline the HSE's response to those concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61489/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in CHO 7; the number of vacant positions for public health nurses in CHO 7; the current recruitment process in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61273/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of community disability network teams in Dublin Mid-West; the staffing levels per team; the location of each team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61274/22]
Social 2 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports available for fuel allowance applicants who are marginally over the qualifying limit; if exceptions can be made for these people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60219/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if individuals who qualify for the living alone allowance can be considered for the fuel allowance if they are over the qualifying limit by the amount received in their living alone allowance; if exceptions can be made in these cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60220/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding for Horse Racing Ireland can be allocated to urban horse rearing projects such as an equine club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60839/22]

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.