Dublin South-West — week of Mon, 13 Nov — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin South-West TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Nov – 19 Nov 2023 · 5 TDs · 5 bills voted on · 40 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages

2023-11-15 · 3 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–81

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Voted against 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 49–81

Voted for 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Voted against 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

The motion · motion passed 117–10

Voted for 5 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2023-11-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 80–60

Voted for 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Imposing Sanctions on Israel

2023-11-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 85–55

Voted for 3 Colm Brophy · Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 2 Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

Did not vote 1 Ciarán Ahern

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023

2023-11-15 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 3–5

Voted against 1 Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 5 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 4–6

Voted against 1 Francis Noel Duffy

Did not vote 5 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · John Lahart · Paul Murphy · Seán Crowe

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-11-14 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 78–38

Voted for 2 Francis Noel Duffy · John Lahart

Voted against 1 Seán Crowe

Did not vote 3 Ciarán Ahern · Colm Brophy · Paul Murphy

Ciarán Ahern — Labour Party 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Colm Brophy — Fine Gael 5 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Lahart — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Housing 3 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in light of reports of fires in multi-storey car parks, some of which seem to emanate from either car or bicycle batteries, he will outline any steps his Department has taken to carry out investigations in terms of the safety of multi-storey car parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49272/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on census figures which show a much higher proportion of properties being rented out than those that are registered; his views on the discrepancy; how this can be addressed to ensure tenants have a fair deal from their landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49279/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline what the position is with ground rent that might not have been paid on a residential property in many years; whether it is still due; whether an interest or moiety has accrued on it; at what level that can be charged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49934/23]

Paul Murphy — People Before Profit-Solidarity 5 votes · 35 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 35 total

Environment 8 questions
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications whether he supports taking waste collection back into public ownership to ensure better environmental management of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50236/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has engaged with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Taoiseach in relation to their promotion of beef exports to South Korea and to state whether he thinks prompting beef exports to South Korea is compatible with reducing emissions from agriculture under the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50235/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline what increases in emissions reduction targets will be included in the next Climate Action Plan, given the failure to reach previous years' targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50289/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline he and his Department's engagement with the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform regarding the Climate, Infrastructure and Nature Fund announced in Budget 2024; how that fund could be used to ramp up annual climate adaptation projects nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50290/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will outline his Government's aims, goals and targets for the upcoming COP28 negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50291/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on Ireland's position on the Loss and Damage Fund, which will be discussed at COP28; if Ireland will commit at least €500 million in new money, in the form of grants, to a Loss and Damage Fund at COP28; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50292/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on his engagement with his counterparts in the EU and other international governments ahead of the COP28 negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50294/23]
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what measures he proposes to reduce the impact of air pollution on the high levels of asthma and COPD in this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50295/23]
Foreign 6 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will take immediate action to stop the fighting in Sudan; if he will commit to delivering food and medical aid to the Sudanese people through organisations such as the UN World Food Programme and the Red Crescent; if he will strongly condemn the shipments of weapons into Sudan from countries that are opponents of peace, including but not limited to, the United Arab Emirates; and if he will urge military leaders (details supplied) to stop the conflict immediately and advocate for peace. [49787/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if is aware that the UN has stated that there is a record 6.9 million people internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating violence, for the sake of mining coltan and cobalt for the big tech companies of the world; the actions that have been or will be taken by his Department to bring an end to the violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49793/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what actions his Department is taking to ensure the safe release of an Irish-Israeli citizen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49908/23]
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to give a complete overview of the process that the US military must follow when moving personnel through Irish Airports on US Military aircraft transiting through Irish airports since January 2022. [50105/23]
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a record of all US Military flights that have passed through Shannon Airport since the beginning of October 2023. [50106/23]
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to give a detailed account of all oversight procedures implemented by his Department, other Government Departments and/or the Irish Aviation Authority on flights granted exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war, weapons and dangerous goods through Irish airports (inspections of aircraft, inspections of manifests, Garda deployment, etc.). [50103/23]
Social 4 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will instruct her Department to investigate a case (details supplied); if she will ensure this person receives compensation for the time they were unable to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49561/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will now accept that the approach of using precedential group and/or class decisions to make insurability of employment determinations on groups and/or classes of workers is unlawful [49833/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will clarify what steps she is taking to compensate workers for their losses by being unlawfully misclassified as self-employed by group and/or class by the Social Welfare Appeals Office, which the Minister has been aware of since at least 1995. [49834/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will make a public statement to the effect that the failure of the Social Welfare Appeals Office and Senior Management of her Department to halt the unlawful use of precedential sample/test cases when her Department was first informed of this unlawful practice may now result in a significant loss in PRSI and taxes, as per the Supreme Court comments. [49835/23]
Agriculture 4 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if hare coursing meetings at Fermoy and Trim, scheduled to take place last weekend, were called off; if so, to outline the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49563/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2012 and 2022; and the number of those inseminations that were carried out with sperm straws collected from now deceased stud dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49625/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022 will include a ban on surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49626/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the traceability system (RCÉTS) for greyhounds is not utilised to provide a full picture of what happens with greyhounds in Ireland, i.e., outlining on a regular basis how many pups are born in any given year, when they die and if they are exported. [49627/23]
Transport 3 questions
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport to provide a record of all exemptions provided to carry weapons and munitions of war through Irish ports and airports since January 2022. [50104/23]
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport to give a complete overview of the process that the US military must follow when moving personnel through Irish Airports on US Military chartered flights and to provide any/all records of US personnel transiting through Irish airports since January 2022 [50105/23]
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport to provide a record of all US Military contracted flights that have passed through Shannon Airport since the beginning of October 2023 [50106/23]
Finance 2 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is unable to avail of the disabled drivers scheme unless they modify their car, given that this person does not need adaptions to drive but needs to avail of the benefits provided by the scheme; if he will investigate this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49562/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if, further to previous correspondence where he confirmed that the Department of Education has an "administrative agreement" with the Revenue Commissioners, where home tutors are classified as self-employed entirely because of a precedential group or class decision of the social welfare appeals office to label all home tutors as self-employed for Department of Social Protection purposes but income tax and PRSI are deducted under Revenue's PAYE system for employees, he is aware that this kind of "administrative agreement" runs contrary to the Supreme Court judgements and deliberately misclassifies employees as self-employed; and if, in light of the 2023 decision, he will make available details of all similar "administrative agreements" where workers are or were labelled as self-employed for Department of Social Protection purposes yet taxed and PRSI deducted through Revenue's PAYE system for employees. [49796/23]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that serious concerns in relation to the WRC labour inspectorate's interactions with migrant workers - and, in particular, undocumented migrant workers - were raised in "protected disclosures" by a WRC labour inspector to the WRC and the Department in 2015, to Minister Frances Fitzgerald in 2017 and to Minister Simon Coveney in March 2023, and given also that similar concerns have been raised by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, by the GRETA Report on the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings by Ireland, by successive US State Department Reports on Trafficking in Persons and by a UN Special Rapporteurs’ Report on trafficking in human beings in the Irish fishing industry, if he can detail how the concerns raised in these successive “protected disclosures” were addressed and, in particular, how Minister Frances Fitzgerald dealt with the July 2017 “protected disclosure” to her, detailing how evidence provided in the 2015 disclosures to the Department had not been investigated and, similarly, how the current Minister and his Department dealt with the March 2023 “protected disclosure” to him detailing how the previous “protected disclosure” to Minister Fitzgerald had not been investigated. [50021/23]
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm whether a disclosure to Minister Fitzgerald in July 2017 (details supplied) was included in the Department’s Protected Disclosures Report for 2017, as required under Section 22 of the Protected Disclosures Act; and, if so, what specific wording was used to declare that disclosure. [50022/23]
Education 2 questions
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education to address the issue of the barriers to full Teaching Council registration for a teacher (details supplied) who has obtained qualifications outside the Republic of Ireland, despite the opening-up of a route to full registration. [49278/23]
- 2023-11-15 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education to outline, in tabular form, the NEPS areas across the country, and the number of psychologists appointed to each. [50043/23]
Defence 1 question
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence [49912/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of correspondence from Caredoc (details supplied); if he will keep the terms and conditions of these workers in line with Section 38 and HSE staff, given that the CIT team in Caredoc is the only national team not to have received the building momentum pay rises and 37.5-hour week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49775/23]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will outline his Department's road map for assisting the recovery in communities such as Midleton, County Cork, regarding flood relief and climate adaptation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50293/23]
Housing 1 question
- 2023-11-16 Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether there should be full transparency in relation to the data on water abstraction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50296/23]

Seán Crowe — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Education 1 question
- 2023-11-14 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education the reason behind the delay in the scoping inquiry into historic abuse at a school (details supplied); if she will give a commitment that the report's deadline of June 2024 will be held to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49496/23]