Carlow-Kilkenny — week of Mon, 12 Jun

What your Carlow-Kilkenny TDs did this week

Mon, 12 Jun – 18 Jun 2023 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 44 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Retained Fire Services

2023-06-14 · 2 votes

Amendment again put: · motion passed 71–62

Voted for 2 John Paul Phelan · Malcolm Noonan

Voted against 1 Kathleen Funchion

Did not vote 5 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · John McGuinness · Natasha Newsome Drennan · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

The motion · motion passed 70–62

Voted for 2 John Paul Phelan · Malcolm Noonan

Voted against 1 Kathleen Funchion

Did not vote 5 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · John McGuinness · Natasha Newsome Drennan · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022

2023-06-14 · 1 vote · People Before Profit-Solidarity PMB

A bill to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to remove the lower minimum wage rates imposed on those employed between the ages of 16 and 20

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–59

Voted for 2 John Paul Phelan · Malcolm Noonan

Voted against 1 Kathleen Funchion

Did not vote 5 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · John McGuinness · Natasha Newsome Drennan · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Catherine Callaghan — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 18 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 18 total

Health 5 questions
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken regarding the recognition of Covid/long-Covid as having an occupational connection in social or health care and certain other settings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27064/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health if there are any plans to add an illness to the long-term illness scheme, medical card or drugs payment scheme for medications for an illness (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27377/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health if there are any plans to add an illness to the long- term illness scheme under the terms of mental illness, medical card or drugs payment scheme for medications for an illness (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27380/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetics and Genomics Medicine in Ireland; the status of the development of the promised National Testing Directory for genetics and genomics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28413/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health what engagement his Department has had with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to pay for services provided, and where its payments had been reduced in 2009 and have been frozen ever since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28450/23]
Rural 2 questions
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the projects funded by the Transitional LEADER programme in County Carlow, as well as the amount of funding Carlow has received under the initiative. [28285/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on thefunding allocated and works undertaken in Bagenalstown, County Carlow under the Streetscape Enhancement Initiative. [28284/23]
Education 2 questions
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Education the precise number of special needs organisers currently working in County Kildare; the number of positions currently vacant; her Department's plan to fill these vacancies; if she will otherwise outline the optimum number of special needs organisers required to fill the demand in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27517/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Education when a new special educational needs organiser will be appointed to the Carlow area following the vacancy arising (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28451/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the most up-to-date housing needs assessment for counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and the number on each of the local authority housing waiting lists for these counties. [28281/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the infrastructure fees waiver that has been announced includes septic tanks. [28282/23]
Justice 2 questions
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Justice the plans being put in place by her Department to address serious backlogs in atypical visa processing (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28374/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Justice the steps being taken to ensure adequate staff are available to service the nursing home care sector (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28375/23]
Finance 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm whether or not active farmland is excluded from RZLT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28397/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 23 May 2023, the reason those on non-contributory pensions were omitted from the Spring bonus cost-of-living supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28366/23]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any plans to introduce a scheme for private homeowners living in the countryside in addition to the €9 million in support to landowners with ash dieback infected plantations by removing and replanting their sites with alternative species to avoid an endemic spread of the disease to rural gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28378/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline on delivery of funding for a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28262/23]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the integration into the higher education framework in a region of an institution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27375/23]

John McGuinness — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Social 3 questions
- 2023-06-13 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the claim of a person (details supplied) to determine if they are in receipt of the correct benefit at the maximum rate and if they are entitled to other benefits; and she will provide a record of their contributions. [28409/23]
- 2023-06-13 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a State pension (contributory) based on their contributions and recent application; and if their record of contributions will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28472/23]
- 2023-06-14 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) for carer’s benefit, now under review, will be expedited and approved; and if the information provided of the care being given will be considered. [28736/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on the progress in the conservation of salmon stocks in the rivers in the south east; how the funds raised through the salmon licence payment are used; the amount collected in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27329/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education the status of the provision of a new school to accommodate the amalgamation of schools (details supplied); and if the process will be expedited. [28475/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the reason the social insurance record of a person (details supplied) shows 52 class D contributions for each year from 1988 to 2018, when in fact they only worked 26 weeks per year during that period. [28510/23]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2023-06-13 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when a person (details supplied) will be called to college as he is 18 months into his electrical apprenticeship; and if he will be given a place in Kilkenny. [27763/23]

Natasha Newsome Drennan — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Peter 'Chap' Cleere — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.