Kildare North — week of Mon, 27 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Mon, 27 Feb – 5 Mar 2023 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 124 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022

2023-03-01 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 51–74

Voted for 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Voted against 1 Bernard Durkan

Did not vote 4 Aidan Farrelly · James Lawless · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021

2023-03-01 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to provide for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a person's social and economic disadvantaged background

full description

A bill to provide for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a person's social and economic disadvantaged background; for those purposes to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 69–55

Voted for 1 Bernard Durkan

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 4 Aidan Farrelly · James Lawless · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

National Ambulance Service

2023-03-01 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 70–58

Voted for 1 Bernard Durkan

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 4 Aidan Farrelly · James Lawless · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

The motion · motion passed 71–59

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Aidan Farrelly — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

James Lawless — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 12 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 12 total

Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2023-03-01 Deputy James Lawless asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [10064/23]
- 2023-03-01 Deputy James Lawless asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [10065/23]
- 2023-03-01 Deputy James Lawless asked the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the national security committee chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [10066/23]
Environment 3 questions
- 2023-03-01 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10281/23]
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10605/23]
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10606/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-02-28 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if a matter in relation to medical services for children in the east of the country (detail supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9624/23]
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the implementation of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10602/23]
Transport 2 questions
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the DART+ West project; and when the construction works are expected to be completed. [10388/23]
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the DART+ South West programme, which will service Celbridge. [10387/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education the enrolment figures for all the schools, at primary and post-primary, in Trim, County Meath on a class-by-class basis and, where relevant, by gender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10609/23]
Justice 1 question
- 2023-03-02 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Justice if he will advise and assist with an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10627/23]

New lobbying 1 return

Sisters of Mercy Education and Training
- Request permission for Helena Cala and her family to remain in Ireland so that she can complete her education in NUIG Helena has spent 8 years of her life in direct provision in Ballyhaunis. At present she is experiencing some distress that is affecting her BSc studies in NUIM Funding fees are €15,000 per annum and accommodation is difficult to source too

Joe Neville — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Naoise Ó Cearúil — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Réada Cronin — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Children 1 question
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the delay in the publication of the Shannon Report into historic abuse at an organisation (details supplied); when the publication of that report can now be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9763/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will examine the case of persons (details supplied) who were categorised as essential warehouse workers by the HSE, and are now being denied the pandemic bonus payment, on the basis of a technicality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9803/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-03-01 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 23 February 2023, the independent environmental evaluations and assessments undertaken in the matter of any planned of storage facilities (details supplied); the international credentials of those bodies undertaking such assessment; if he will publish their findings regarding same; whether any such planning and development of such facilities have been and will be undertaken within the context of Ireland’s Aarhus responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10331/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-03-01 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 23 February 2023, if she will publish communications with the European Commission on the matter of recognising long Covid as an occupational injury, together with her correspondence with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10317/23]
Transport 1 question
- 2023-03-02 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport if he will examine matters in relation to the CIÉ 1951 scheme (details supplied), given he has been satisfied by the trustees as to the liquidity of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10653/23]