Dublin Bay South — week of Mon, 22 May

What your Dublin Bay South TDs did this week

Mon, 22 May – 28 May 2023 · 4 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 29 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022

2023-05-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 53–66

Voted for 2 Chris Andrews · Ivana Bacik

Voted against 2 Eamon Ryan · Jim O'Callaghan

Did not vote 2 Eoin Hayes · James Geoghegan

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 54–67

Voted for 2 Chris Andrews · Ivana Bacik

Voted against 2 Eamon Ryan · Jim O'Callaghan

Did not vote 2 Eoin Hayes · James Geoghegan

Hospital Waiting Lists

2023-05-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 67–55

Voted for 2 Eamon Ryan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Chris Andrews · Ivana Bacik

Did not vote 2 Eoin Hayes · James Geoghegan

The motion · motion passed 67–55

Voted for 2 Eamon Ryan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Chris Andrews · Ivana Bacik

Did not vote 2 Eoin Hayes · James Geoghegan

Eoin Hayes — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Ivana Bacik — Labour Party 4 votes · 8 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Taoiseach 5 questions
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22860/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22862/23]
- 2023-05-24 Deputy Ivana Bacik 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. [22863/23]
- 2023-05-24 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update them. [22864/23]
- 2023-05-24 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [22865/23]
Finance 1 question
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance if there is a clause in the enhanced help-to-buy scheme which allows separated or divorced people who are not first-time buyers to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24068/23]
Tourism 1 question
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media how she proposes to ensure effective enforcement of the rights afforded to film directors in the Irish film industry under SI 567/2021, which enacted the EU Copyright Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24820/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide information regarding the reasoning behind the decision by the Citizens Information Board that volunteer information officers would not return to their normal work when citizen information centres reopened in autumn 2021 and Covid rules were relaxed, and the decision that from 31 August 2022 these volunteer information officers could not return unless they accepted a reduced administrative role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24821/23]

New lobbying 2 returns

Irish Exporters Association Economic Development and Industry
- Highlighting issues in CSRD and the impact it will have on businesses
Dyspraxia Association of Ireland Health
- To raise awareness of the lack of assessment and follow on support services for children and youth with Dyspraxia.

James Geoghegan — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Jim O'Callaghan — Fianna Fáil 4 votes · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Health 10 questions
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health to confirm that no sickness insurance scheme provided for by law or regulation exists in Ireland within the meaning of Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC), laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (the "EU Staff Regulation"); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24549/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours for older people provided in each LHO area in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the allocation in each LHO for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24560/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2023. [24851/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients who have been removed from outpatient lists in 2023 as a result of a validation exercise, and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [24852/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 May 2023; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [24853/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges for each public/voluntary hospital at the end of April 2023, in tabular form. [24854/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost in each owing to delayed discharges for each public/voluntary hospital to date in 2023, in tabular form. [24855/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours between the beginning of January and end of April 2023; and the hospitals where the wait occurred. [24856/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2023, in tabular form; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40 minutes for same; the number that waited longer than 60 minutes for same; the number that waited longer than 90 minutes for same; the number that waited more than 120 minutes for same; and the number that waited more than 180 minutes for same. [24857/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when funding plans for the training of counselling psychologists will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24941/23]
Social 2 questions
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused an old age pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24089/23]
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is not receiving their full pension entitlement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24115/23]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2023-05-24 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [23071/23]
- 2023-05-24 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [23072/23]
Justice 2 questions
- 2023-05-25 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice if consideration has been given to designating South Africa and Brazil as safe countries under section 72 of the International Protection Act 2015, on the basis that the legal situation in both countries, the application of the law within what are two democratic systems and the general political circumstances show that in both countries there is generally and consistently no persecution, torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and no threat by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict. [25358/23]
- 2023-05-25 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice if consideration will be given to the establishment of a regulator for owner management companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25473/23]
Finance 1 question
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in tabular form on a county basis the number of businesses in each county that have successfully applied for inclusion under the temporary business energy support scheme as of 16 May 2023; the estimated value or worth of the support in each county to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24411/23]
Housing 1 question
- 2023-05-23 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homebuyers in each county who have now been approved under the first-home shared equity scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24915/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-05-24 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education is she will provide the number of special needs assistants in each county in the school years 2020/2021, 2021/22 and 2022/23, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25086/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-05-25 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if SI 121/2018 remains in force; if not, when and how it was revoked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25464/23]