Dublin Central — week of Mon, 30 Jan — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin Central TDs did this week

Mon, 30 Jan – 5 Feb 2023 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 24 questions · 10 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 1 Gary Gannon

Voted against 1 Neasa Hourigan

Did not vote 3 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald · Paschal Donohoe

Amendment again put: · motion failed 64–74

Voted for 1 Gary Gannon

Voted against 1 Neasa Hourigan

Did not vote 3 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald · Paschal Donohoe

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–66

Voted for 1 Neasa Hourigan

Voted against 1 Gary Gannon

Did not vote 3 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald · Paschal Donohoe

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 1 Neasa Hourigan

Voted against 1 Gary Gannon

Did not vote 3 Marie Sherlock · Mary Lou McDonald · Paschal Donohoe

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-01-31 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 2 Neasa Hourigan · Paschal Donohoe

Voted against 1 Mary Lou McDonald

Did not vote 2 Gary Gannon · Marie Sherlock

Gary Gannon — Social Democrats 4 votes · 10 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 10 total

Education 5 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the work of her Department in ensuring that special education teachers, and special needs assistants, are not used to plug gaps in mainstream classes in schools suffering from a teacher shortage. [5163/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the revamped relationships and sexuality education junior cycle curriculum, which is due to be introduced in the coming months. [5058/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education her views on whether the two-year length of the Professional Master's in Education is a prohibiting factor for many wishing to enter the profession; and if she is considering shortening its length and lessening its cost. [5139/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the efforts of her Department to address teacher shortages. [5138/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will consider paying teachers in training for their work in placement schools. [5164/23]
Children 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list all properties that have housed Ukrainian refugees and/or other international protection applicants in the past twelve months by county, and in the case of Dublin, by postcode, in tabular form. [4789/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees and/or other international protection applicants who have been accommodated in the past twelve months by county, and in the case of Dublin, by postcode, in tabular form. [4790/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the average timeframe that an approval for reimbursement of the cost of Cariban takes after a consultant completes an initial application form for an individual reimbursement for Cariban. [4791/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the number of initial application forms for individual reimbursement for Cariban received since 1 January 2023. [4792/23]
Defence 1 question
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence his views and those of the Government on, “the triple lock”; and if he has any intention to change the current regime to a situation where the Government would have more flexibility to act militarily abroad. [5162/23]

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

Marie Sherlock — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

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
Oxfam Ireland Foreign Affairs
- Foreign affairs policies specifically Climate Justice, Business and Human Rights, Vaccine access, Sustainable Food systems

Mary Lou McDonald — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 8 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 8 total

Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [61817/22]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [4087/23]
Justice 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the number of convictions under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020. [4033/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the options that are available to a person (details supplied) when their stamp 1 visa expires. [4319/23]
Tourism 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funding available for an organisation (details supplied) to travel to a competition. [4271/23]
Housing 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the dates on which his officials engaged in preliminary discussions on a possible compensation scheme for Moore Street traders; and what other public and private bodies or organisations were represented at those discussion. [4734/23]
Rural 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a community centre (details supplied) did not receive capital investment. [3969/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 19 January 2023, when he will establish a network of family contact centres to enable supervised meetings or handovers of children between parents who are no longer together or where domestic abuse has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/23]

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

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

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