Mon, 1 May – 7 May 2023 · 5 TDs · 0 bills voted on · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying filings
Ciarán Ahern — Labour Party
0 votes ·
0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Colm Brophy — Fine Gael
0 votes ·
0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
John Lahart — Fianna Fáil
0 votes ·
3 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked3 total
Children2 questions
2023-05-03Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the drafting of legislation to ban conversion therapy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20236/23]
2023-05-03Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the research commissioned by his Department on capturing the views and experiences of people who have been subjected to conversion practices in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20237/23]
Transport1 question
2023-05-03Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Transport the residents in Dublin South-West who have received or will receive a letter of compulsory purchase order for the construction of the BusConnects programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20320/23]
Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity
0 votes ·
16 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked16 total
Transport4 questions
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the reason the 15B from stop 493 was listed on the TFI app as cancelled after two stops on 22 April 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20650/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport when the next phase of BusConnects in Dublin will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20786/23]
2023-05-04Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he has considered that free access to shared cars or hourly car library schemes should be part of free public transport; what he anticipates the impact of this could be on reducing private car ownership and use; if this was taken into account by a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20785/23]
2023-05-04Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport when BusConnects in Dublin south west will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20784/23]
Social4 questions
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person can apply for carer’s allowance while they are receiving jobseeker’s allowance; what happens to their jobseeker's payment while a decision is being made on the carer's allowance application; if it will be suspended as it will be deemed that they are not available for full-time work; and if their jobseeker’s payment is suspended, could they receive supplementary welfare allowance while waiting on carer’s allowance. [20622/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if the partner of a person is receiving half-rate carer’s allowance for their child, how the payments work if their partner is approved for carer's allowance for their parent, if they each have a child dependent on their claim. [20623/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is granted carer’s allowance is still eligible to complete their final year of a bachelor's degree via Springboard while also caring for the needs of their parent as the course is part-time in the evening. [20624/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise in relation to a person (details supplied) who has been refused invalidity pension and supplementary welfare allowance, given they have been without any payment since December 2022; and how her Department can provide them with the support needed. [20664/23]
Agriculture4 questions
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if proposed statutory instruments legislating that euthanasia of a greyhound must only be carried out by a vet have been adopted (details supplied); if he has concerns that Greyhound Racing Ireland's Code of Practice states that non-vets can kill greyhounds for reasons including "the greyhound has behavioural and temperament issues that deemed the greyhound as being unsuitable for rehoming”. [20261/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of active and inactive greyhounds killed by vets and non-vets in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [20262/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds exported, rehomed, retained as pets and that died in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, as recorded on Greyhound Racing Ireland's RCÉTS traceability system. [20263/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 29 March 2023, if the numbers of thoroughbred horse deaths in 2022 (1,874) and to date in 2023 (375) include horses killed in slaughterhouses; and if he will specify the reason for each killing. [20264/23]
Housing2 questions
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of licences issued to hunt fauna on State-owned foreshore over the past ten years; the number granted to gun clubs and individuals, in Ireland and outside the State; the breakdown of the number of birds killed by species and location; and if he will stop the granting of these licences given that many of the birds specified on the licence application form are threatened amber- and red-list birds of conservation concern. [20265/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned about the declining number of hares captured for coursing over the past ten years; and if, on the basis of this and in the interests of conservation, he will refuse to grant a licence for the capture of hares for coursing in 2023. [20704/23]
Health2 questions
2023-05-03Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether pharmacies use a different supplier for medical card holders and those who are buying their medications. [20607/23]
2023-05-04Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that those currently completing a doctorate in counselling psychology at Trinity College, Dublin will now be the only trainee psychologists without any funding; if he will assure that this issue is rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20939/23]
Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
2 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked2 total
Housing2 questions
2023-05-03Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost-rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project tosaigh in Dublin South-West, with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, for each of the years 2016 to 2022, and the number planned to be delivered in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20242/23]
2023-05-03Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Government intends to reopen applications for the caravan loan scheme; the funding that will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20243/23]