Kildare North — week of Mon, 19 Jun

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Mon, 19 Jun – 25 Jun 2023 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 110 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Flood Insurance Bill 2021

2023-06-21 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to provide for fairness in the market for property insurance, and to provide for related matters

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 69–53

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

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-06-20 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 60–55

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

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 · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Defence 2 questions
- 2023-06-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the strength of the permanent Defence Force as of 1 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28295/23]
- 2023-06-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the strength of the reserve Defence Force as of 1 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28296/23]
Education 2 questions
- 2023-06-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education to provide the figures on a waiting list (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29618/23]
- 2023-06-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education the plans in place to address the current lack of places in a school (details supplied); how many students the school can currently accommodate in a junior infants class; how many are on the waiting list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29693/23]
Finance 2 questions
- 2023-06-22 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Finance the action he will take to ensure budgetary policy is calibrated so as to avoid adding to inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30032/23]
- 2023-06-22 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Finance for a report on modified domestic demand to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30031/23]
Justice 1 question
- 2023-06-20 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Justice if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29707/23]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2023-06-21 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the queries raised in the correspondence provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30104/23]

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 2 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Education 10 questions
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education for an update on the long-awaited Celbridge schools’ project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29418/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will move with all alacrity on the matter of a school (details supplied), given the long delays are having a major, negative impact on the school itself, the students attending and the position of An Ghaeilge culturally and linguistically within society and the education system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29873/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether a school (details supplied) has applied for and been approved-sanctioned for two special needs classes; if so, when this was done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29888/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) has asked for the DES section dealing with school capital appraisals to assist it; if so, if she will provide a copy of any report issued to the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29889/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether a school (details supplied) has applied for relevant training, accommodation and IT grants for special classes; if so, when and if these have been approved by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29890/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether a section 37A notice has been issued to a school (details supplied); if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29891/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether her Department or its agencies have provided any advice on how to deliver classrooms for a school (details supplied) without the need for additional land, given the school is citing the need for additional land to build special needs classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29892/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she can confirm that no building can proceed on land zoned as amenity and the provision of such zoned land will not allow the immediate provision of special needs classes at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29893/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the reasons her Department cannot supply two prefabs for use by a school (details supplied) in time for the new school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30101/23]
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will provide six prefabs on a greenfield site to prevent the temporary split campus involved in a school (details supplied), which is highly inconvenient for parents and extremely difficult for staff to operate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30102/23]
Finance 3 questions
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the specifics of how Ireland 'positively influences' the IMF in the context of overseas aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29075/23]
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline how Ireland challenges any conditionality in IMF programmes that undermines our own, stated commitment to public services, our own aid programme and those concerning women's rights in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29076/23]
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if Ireland will conduct an assessment of the impact of IMF programmes in the context of both gender and human rights; if Ireland will examine whether or how they undermine Irish Overseas Aid objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29077/23]
Public Expenditure 3 questions
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he is satisfied that the proposed development of the lands immediately surrounding Castletown House will not impact negatively on the structure and its historical, aesthetic, architectural and cultural integrity; if he will publish the expert basis for that satisfaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29679/23]
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the reason the State did not purchase the lands adjoining Castletown House; if the purchase was ever a consideration; if so, the reason it was not concluded by and for the State; if he will publish the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29680/23]
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the State has conducted an environmental and wildlife assessment of development of the lands adjoining Castletown House; if so, if he will publish the results of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29681/23]
Defence 1 question
- 2023-06-20 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he is willing to apply the terms of reference provided by the Women of Honour group to the planned statutory inquiry into abuse and bullying in the Defence Forces. [29859/23]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2023-06-21 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of the countries to which alumina refined at Aughinish is exported; the proportion of same to each country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29952/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-06-22 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a case (details supplied). [30316/23]