Wexford — week of Mon, 2 Oct

What your Wexford TDs did this week

Mon, 2 Oct – 8 Oct 2023 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 32 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Childcare Fees

2023-10-04 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–62

Voted for 2 James Browne · Paul Kehoe

Voted against 2 Brendan Howlin · Johnny Mythen

Did not vote 2 George Lawlor · Verona Murphy

An Garda Síochána

2023-10-04 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 75–66

Voted for 2 James Browne · Paul Kehoe

Voted against 3 Brendan Howlin · Johnny Mythen · Verona Murphy

Did not vote 1 George Lawlor

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-10-03 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 72–56

Voted for 2 James Browne · Paul Kehoe

Voted against 3 Brendan Howlin · Johnny Mythen · Verona Murphy

Did not vote 1 George Lawlor

George Lawlor — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

James Browne — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Johnny Mythen — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Agriculture 3 questions
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the liming scheme until March 2024, taking into account the exceptional wet summer and soil saturation directly affecting 25,000 farmers who have applied for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42298/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider lime suppliers from the North of Ireland for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42299/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider an upward adjustment to the €8 million allocated for the lime scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42300/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-10-04 Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health the reason that the community intervention team nurses across Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Carlow and Wicklow have not received their pandemic special recognition payments to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42899/23]

Verona Murphy — Independent 2 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Health 9 questions
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health what provisions his Department has in place in regard to medical card applicants in County Wexford who are unable to provide a GP acceptance form due to the chronic shortage of GPs, resulting in GP practices operating at full capacity, with the majority unable to accept new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42159/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the application for a new 97-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; if the updated public spending code will expedite delivery of the capital project proposal at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42452/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the total number of nursing home beds in County Wexford, both public nursing homes and private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42501/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the total number of beds vacant, as of 26 September 2023, in both public and private nursing homes in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42502/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the current total number of persons waiting for a nursing home placement in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42503/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the current number of persons in a medical setting who are awaiting a nursing home placement in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42504/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he can advise on a response to the representation to his office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42771/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health the current status of the health sector's special scheme for front-line workers who contracted Covid-19 and who have been unable to work due to ongoing health issues associated with Covid-19; when the scheme is expected to come to an end; if the scheme will be extended beyond the current expected end date; if he will outline, in the absence of an extension to the scheme, the supports that will be available to those currently on the special scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42773/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he can advise on a response to a representation (details supplied) recently made to his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42783/23]
Education 4 questions
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Questions No. 629 of 11 September 2023 and 287 of 26 September 2023, the total number of school transport applications classed as concessionary applications in County Wexford for the 2023/2024 academic year whereby applications are classed as eligible or concessionary at the application process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42764/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Education the total number of school transport applications received through the school transport system for County Wexford for the 2023/2024 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42765/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Education the total number of concessionary school transport applications declined in County Wexford as of 1 September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42766/23]
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the additional educational needs class at a school (details supplied); to confirm that an additional educational needs class has been sanctioned for the school; to advise on an opening date for the new class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42781/23]
Housing 1 question
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the status of the review on the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme; when the review is expected to be complete; when the review report and revised grant scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42772/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-10-03 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the considerations her Department is currently making as regards the recognition of long-Covid as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42774/23]
Transport 1 question
- 2023-10-04 Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Transport to advise on the process involved in attaining a scribe to support an applicant through the driver CPC case study test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/23]