Cavan-Monaghan — week of Mon, 30 Jan — Watch Them Work

What your Cavan-Monaghan TDs did this week

Mon, 30 Jan – 5 Feb 2023 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 101 questions · 5 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2023-02-01 · 3 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 66–74

Voted for 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Voted against 2 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

Amendment again put: · motion failed 64–74

Voted for 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Voted against 2 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–66

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021

2023-02-01 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 to make provision for an entitlement to bereavement leave to an employee who is a bereaved parent of a child who has died a…

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A bill to amend the Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 to make provision for an entitlement to bereavement leave to an employee who is a bereaved parent of a child who has died and to provide for related matters.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–64

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-01-31 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 73–56

Voted for 3 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

Brendan Smith — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 10 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 10 total

Foreign 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his attendance at the recent British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4264/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with the United Kingdom government on Northern Ireland legacy issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4265/23]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Northern Ireland for discussions with the political parties there. [4220/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. [4221/23]
Defence 2 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the review by his Department and the Defence Forces of the recommendations in the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5145/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will review the structures and organisation of the Defence Forces with particular reference to the security needs of the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5146/23]
Education 2 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education if there are proposals to extend the current Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4950/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the level of funding and plans for the 2023 July Provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4949/23]
Transport 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline the Government’s commitment to help progress the proposed upgrade of the A5 road in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4081/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will ensure that persons who live over their business premises where the same electricity connection covers the entire premises, both residential and business, will have their accounts credited through the electricity costs emergency benefit schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5140/23]

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper

Cathy Bennett — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

David Maxwell — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Matt Carthy — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 43 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 43 total

Agriculture 16 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1743 of 18 January 2023, if dogs and pets entering Ireland from Ukraine are considered EU or non-EU for the purpose of health certification and health documentation checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4273/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dogs and other animals that entered Ireland in 2022 from each applicable country; and the number within each that were subject to a health status and health documentation check in line with the EU Animal Health Law, Regulation 429/2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4274/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of land sold or transferred by Coillte in each county in each of the years 1988 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4569/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his efforts to secure amendment to EU state-aid rules that would allow State-owned companies such as Coillte to avail of grant aid under the Forestry Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4570/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that will be dedicated to forestry in each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [4579/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under subhead B10 of the Revised Estimates for 2023, in tabular form. [4580/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares of land disposed of by Coillte, by year and by county, since 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4581/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the revised State-aid rules allow for Coillte and other public bodies to access afforestation premiums funded exclusively through national resources. [4582/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any provisions under the revised State-aid rules that exclude Coillte and other public bodies from accessing afforestation premiums which are funded exclusively through national resources; and if he will indicate the relevant provisions in relation to same. [4583/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the types of State-aid for afforestation that Coillte and other public bodies may be eligible for under the revised State-aid rules; and the costs of the establishment of forest and woodland and annual premiums per hectare for maintenance and income foregone. [4584/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the recently announced €1.3 billion Forestry Programme between capital and current funding in each of the years 2023 to 2025 and 2026 to 2027, in tabular form. [4585/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of the recently announced €1.3 billion Forestry Programme that is pre-committed capital funding within his Department’s capital ceiling under the National Development Plan in each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [4586/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person who signed the shareholder letter of expectation to Coillte on 2 June 2022 on behalf of the State; the details of the letter; if the letter will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4587/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with a sectoral group (details suppled) to discuss the incoming forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4702/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current number of hectares and percentage of utilisable agricultural area under use for or in conversion to organic production; the targets for 2025, 2027 and 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4703/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications of a proposed acquisition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4883/23]
Health 7 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the reason Corlough health centre, County Cavan was sold by the HSE; if efforts were made to re-establish health services at the centre; the sale price agreed for the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3987/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) will be awarded the pandemic bonus payment given that they were a front-line worker at a nursing home until its closure in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4676/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting additional ten whole-time equivalent midwives for the maternity unit at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5022/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent vacancies by job title currently in the oncology day unit at Cavan General Hospital; when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5023/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of staff who are needed to reach full staffing levels in each of the children's disability network teams in CHO1; the number of staff who are currently in place in each of the children's disability network teams in CHO1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5024/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if staff within an organisation (details supplied) are eligible for the pandemic bonus payment given the essential service they provided throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5118/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) will be awarded the pandemic payment bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5421/23]
Education 4 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education the total number of enrolments in primary and post-primary schools; the total number of whole-time equivalent teaching posts in each of the years 2018 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4686/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education the total number of late applications received for the school transport scheme in relation to the 2022-2023 academic year; the number from County Monaghan; the number of which have been processed and approved; and the number outstanding. [4692/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education the timeframe for a decision in respect of the application for capital funding, under the additional school accommodation scheme by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4693/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education when guidelines and funding allocations for the free schoolbook scheme will issue to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5436/23]
Transport 4 questions
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport further Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, if he will direct the Road Safety Authority to ensure that applicants for the driver theory test with special needs, including those who are functionally illiterate, can apply for a reader recorder service by means other than writing to the Driver Theory Test Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4829/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, the locations of the driver theory test centres at which the reader recorder service is currently available to applicants; the number of applicants who used the service at each centre in each of the years 2018-2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4830/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport further Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, if he will direct the Road Safety Authority to promote and advertise the reader recorder service in order that applicants for the driver theory test with special needs, including those who are functionally illiterate, can be made aware of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4831/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport further Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, how the reader recorder service available to applicants for the driver theory test with special needs, including those who are functionally illiterate, operates in practice for the user; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4832/23]
Children 3 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the recourses available to those who feel that they were discriminated against during the job interview process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4704/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the legislative steps he has taken to protect interviewees from being discriminated against; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4705/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention was drawn to the anomaly within the national childcare scheme where parents who are paying their childcare provider for full-day attendance but who leave their children at the facility for shorter hours are, in the cases whereby the childcare provider uses the NCP app, receiving less subsidy and therefore paying more childcare costs than if they were to leave the child for longer hours; if he intends to resolve this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5119/23]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether recognising the State of Palestine at this time would contribute to protecting the integrity of the Palestine territory per the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4688/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the total number of outstanding passport applications on hand, including incomplete applications; the number on hand for more than one, two, three, four, five, and six months; the current number of staff in the Passport Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4689/23]
Defence 2 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of new recruits to the Defence Forces; and the number of discharges in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive. [4694/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he has received the final judge-led report into the allegations made by a group (details supplied); and when he will publish this report. [4695/23]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the jobs announcements made by Ministers in his Department in 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; the companies involved; the number of jobs announced; the location of the new jobs and the location in which the Minister made the announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4729/23]
Public 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the goods and services procured by the Office of Public Works in each of the years 2014 to 2022, inclusive, from companies (details supplied); and if such procurement was compliant or non-compliant or has been deemed to be compliant or non-compliant with procurement guidelines. [4690/23]
Tourism 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the expected timeline to finalise the national swimming strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4701/23]
Housing 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable homes completed by Monaghan County Council in 2022; the targeted figure for 2023; the corresponding figures for approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4691/23]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress that has been made on the Government commitment to fund access for third-level students from the North of Ireland to the EU's Erasmus study abroad programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3988/23]

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper

Niamh Smyth — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 14 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 14 total

Education 4 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education if she will investigate the reason that students (details supplied) from Kilnaleck, County Cavan are paying private bus fees each week to get to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4940/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education the number of applications for assistive technology for students with special educational needs received by the National Council for Special Education since the inception of the scheme by county; the number of these applications that have been successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4939/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the Creative Clusters Programme for primary and post-primary schools; the number of schools involved in the Programme; if there are plans to increase the number of participating schools each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5029/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the bringing live arts to students and teachers, BLAST, programme for primary and post-primary schools; the number of schools involved in the programme; if there are plans to increase the number of participating schools each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5030/23]
Health 3 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) has not received a hospital appointment in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4074/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason that the drug cariban is not available free of charge to pregnant women who are suffering with sickness during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason that women who suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum during pregnancy have to pay for vital medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4819/23]
Defence 2 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the strategies and improvements required to attract females to enlist in the Defence Forces and to feel fully respected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5032/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if has he full confidence in the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied) following his visit to Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5031/23]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [4219/23]
Finance 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Finance if it is possible for a person (details supplied) to get extra financial support for a car. [4270/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the parents' association of a core-funded preschool (details supplied) can hold fundraisers to raise money for the preschool; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4160/23]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason that a student (details supplied) did not get the full SUSI grant; if this could be looked into further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4342/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he could address the concerns on internet and broadband in west Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5055/23]

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper