Meath West — week of Mon, 3 Jul — Watch Them Work

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 3 Jul – 9 Jul 2023 · 3 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages

2023-07-05 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 58–75

Voted for 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Damien English

Did not vote 1 Aisling Dempsey

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 54–74

Voted for 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Damien English

Did not vote 1 Aisling Dempsey

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022

2023-07-05 · 1 vote · Govt (Children)

A bill to provide, in recognition of the circumstances experienced by certain persons while resident in certain institutions in the State, for the establishment of a scheme to b…

full description

A bill to provide, in recognition of the circumstances experienced by certain persons while resident in certain institutions in the State, for the establishment of a scheme to be known as the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme for the purpose of the making of payments and the making available without charge of health services to such persons; to provide for the making by such persons of applications for such payments and services; and to provide for related matters.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 75–61

Voted for 1 Damien English

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Did not vote 2 Aisling Dempsey · Peadar Tóibín

Nature Restoration Law

2023-07-05 · 2 votes

A sub-amendment · motion failed 57–75

Voted for 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Damien English

Did not vote 1 Aisling Dempsey

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 121–9

Voted for 2 Damien English · Johnny Guirke

Voted against 1 Peadar Tóibín

Did not vote 1 Aisling Dempsey

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-07-04 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 72–57

Voted for 1 Damien English

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Did not vote 1 Aisling Dempsey

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 5 votes · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 27 total

Taoiseach 4 questions
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the total number of times taoisigh have issued State apologies in the past decade. [30823/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will list the State apologies issued by his Department in each of the past ten years. [30866/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if his Department collates statistics on the number of SMEs which close each year; and if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with statistics pertaining to each of the past ten years. [30824/23]
- 2023-07-05 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of each of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [30867/23]
Environment 4 questions
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of times he has met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ since he took office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32165/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of times he has met with or corresponded with members of the board of RTÉ since he took office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32169/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of public funding, in money terms, the Government has provided to RTÉ in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32172/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of times his predecessors (details supplied) met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ while they were in office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32177/23]
Public Expenditure 4 questions
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of times he has met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ since he took office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32166/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of times he has met with or corresponded with members of the board of RTÉ since he took office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32170/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when his Department was first alerted to the fact that RTÉ had entered an agreement to guarantee an annual income of €75,000 to an employee (details supplied). [32176/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of times his predecessors under this Government and the last, met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ while they were in office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32178/23]
Tourism 4 questions
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of times she has met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ since she took office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32164/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of times she has met with or corresponded with members of the board of RTÉ since she took office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32168/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount of public funding, in money terms, the Government has provided to RTÉ in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32171/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when her Department was first alerted to the fact that RTÉ had entered an agreement to guarantee an annual income of €75,000 to an employee (details supplied). [32174/23]
Children 3 questions
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have gone missing from State care in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32082/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) which expressed concerns over the sexual exploitation of children in care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32081/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 27 June 2023 (details supplied) regarding unaccompanied minors; if he will instruct the International Protection Accommodation Service or his Department to answer the question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32360/23]
Transport 2 questions
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the number of times his predecessor (details supplied) met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ while he was in office; and the dates upon which such meetings or correspondences took place. [32167/23]
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport if he will put in place a free electronic toll pass for residents within a 10km radius of Obelisk Bridge in east Meath for the duration of the closure of the Obelisk Bridge which will seriously discommode those living in the area and trying to cross the river Boyne for school, work, shopping, church and social reasons. [32196/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-07-06 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the local authority home loan scheme which enables successful applicants to borrow up to 90% of the market value of the property; if he will detail the number of people who have applied for the scheme; and the number who have been successful. [32083/23]
- 2023-07-06 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many of the promised 1,850 cost rental homes with State-backed rent of at least 25% below what they would be on in the private market, for 2023, have thus far been delivered [32084/23]
Social 2 questions
- 2023-07-06 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the total amounts paid out in jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker's benefit in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32133/23]
- 2023-07-06 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection what social welfare packages can be made available to people who lost their jobs in Tara Mines, County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32134/23]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2023-07-04 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene in a situation where a practising doctor in County Galway (details supplied) has been refused a stamp 4 support letter from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32391/23]
Foreign 1 question
- 2023-07-05 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he can expedite a passport application for a person (details supplied). [32887/23]