Cavan-Monaghan — week of Mon, 4 Dec — Watch Them Work

What your Cavan-Monaghan TDs did this week

Mon, 4 Dec – 10 Dec 2023 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 63 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Renters

2023-12-06 · 2 votes

Amendment again put: · motion passed 67–60

Voted for 1 Brendan Smith

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

The motion · motion passed 67–59

Voted for 1 Brendan Smith

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

Immigration

2023-12-06 · 1 vote

A sub-amendment · motion failed 16–107

Voted against 3 Brendan Smith · Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 3 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell · Niamh Smyth

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-12-05 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 79–59

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

Confidence in the Minister for Justice

2023-12-05 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 83–63

Voted for 2 Brendan Smith · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

Brendan Smith — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [52547/23]
- 2023-12-06 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53189/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures that will be implemented at an early date to progress the proposal to extend the Shannon navigation from Lough Allen, County Leitrim, to Dowra, County Cavan, in view of the substantial preparatory work carried out on the project some years ago and the benefits of such a development for the upper Shannon region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53977/23]
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline details of the Voids Programme for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54190/23]
Social 2 questions
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if provision will be made to have child benefit paid in respect of students in full-time education who reach the age of 18 during the current school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54211/23]
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if measures will be introduced to assist applicants that have domiciliary care applications progressed where there are delays outside the control of parents in having necessary assessments carried out for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54212/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the progress to date in making a permanent appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54383/23]
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Health the measures that will be implemented to deal with the shortage of home support workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54400/23]
Finance 1 question
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance if measures will be introduced to assist in the provision of better credit facilities for small and medium enterprises as many businesses, particularly small enterprises, are facing serious difficulties due to the non-availability of reasonable loan and overdraft facilities from the pillar banks; if he is aware that some businesses that had reasonable credit facilities with banks that exited the Irish market recently do not have similar arrangements with their new banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54392/23]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the measures that will be made available to assist small and medium enterprises with the challenges that have arisen for such businesses due to increased costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54397/23]
Tourism 1 question
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the additional measures that will be introduced to deal with the spread of misinformation on social media platforms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54401/23]

Cathy Bennett — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

David Maxwell — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Matt Carthy — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 27 total

Foreign 15 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has been informed of a proposal by the European Commission to establish a programme modelled on the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) scheme, to support the EU arms industry; if he intends to oppose the establishment of such a programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53236/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to the Department’s correspondence to the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts on 16 July 2021 (details supplied), the total compensation sought by the West Bank Protection Consortium from Israel to date; the amount received; if payment was not received, if the Irish Government sought to ensure that payment was received in advance of Foreign Ministers of the European Union agreeing to renew the EU-Israel Association Council in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53453/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland sought for the European Union to make renewal of the EU-Israel Association Agreement contingent upon Israeli payment of compensation sought to the West Bank Protection Consortium; if such a payment was sought and if so, the amount received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53454/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the humanitarian assistance Ireland has provided to the people of Gaza during the temporary ceasefire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53460/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the humanitarian assistance that Ireland has provided to the people of Gaza in coordination with the European Union during the temporary ceasefire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53461/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland or the European Union have provided field hospitals to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53462/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland or the European Union have provided humanitarian assistance in the form of Civil Defence equipment to the people of Gaza to assist rescuing the estimated 6,000 Palestinians trapped under rubble; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53463/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in light of statements from Israel’s Heritage Minister that the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Gaza was ‘one of the possibilities’ with regard to Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, whether or not it is the position of the Irish Government that the state of Israel possesses nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53464/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his response to the reprimand of the Irish ambassador to Israel in response to a social media post by An Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53477/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in light of an announced rebuke of the Irish ambassador, if his Government has reconsidered the actions of the Deputy Head of Mission of the Israeli mission in Ireland, who levelled accusations against the Irish Government of funding Hamas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53478/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions he has taken in response to the forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank; the increased funding announced for illegal Israeli settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank, described by the High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy as a breach of international humanitarian law; the increased funding to ‘search and destroy’ European Union-funded projects in the West Bank; the funding for arming illegal settlements in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53479/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his response to President of the European Commission burdening NGOs with bureaucracy in an attempt to stem aid to Palestine, in the spirit of an announced cessation of aid to Palestinian rebuked by Ireland and other member states, and despite a recent review having concluded that existing safeguards ‘work well’ and that ‘no evidence has been found to date that money has been diverted for unintended purposes’; and so as to ensure parity of treatment with regard to aid to Palestine and trade with Israel, in line with statements of the Taoiseach, the actions he has taken to limit trade with Israel in a comparative manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53480/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his efforts to secure the release of Palestinian people interned by Israel in administrative detention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53481/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason Ireland abstained on the UN General Assembly resolution which called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Golan Heights in accordance with previous Security Council resolutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53733/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the UN General Assembly resolutions and UN Security Council resolutions that Ireland has voted on that called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Golan Heights, the dates of each resolution and the position taken by Ireland in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53734/23]
Defence 8 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service operations and patrols scheduled and cancelled in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53455/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of instances where a Minister has had to make alternative travel arrangements due to an Air Corps plane being unavailable due to mechanical or staffing issues in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date, by year, in tabular form; the cost associated with the alternative arrangements in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53456/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the legislative basis for mandatory selection which would compel members of the Defence Forces to serve overseas as part of an EU battlegroup; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53457/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the occasions on which the Defence Forces have used a process of mandatory selection to enlist members to missions or operations in each of the years from 2000 to date in 2023; the number of members involved in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53485/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he has any proposals for the Defence Forces to participate in overseas missions for which the triple-lock neutrality protection currently precludes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53486/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if there are proposals to deploy the German-led EU battlegroup to missions that Ireland is currently precluded due to the triple-lock neutrality protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53487/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for an update on the review of the processes of awarding military medals; when he expects the review to be completed; if he intends to implement changes to the processes involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53791/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he could utilise the same discretion that established the Independent Review Group on Jadotville to review the potential of awarding a military medal for gallantry to a person (details supplied); if he will ensure that such a review is completed before the 25th anniversary of the person's death in May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53792/23]
Justice 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number, in tabular form, of gardaí in total, and of each rank, based in County Monaghan currently, and for the end of each year 2009-2022, inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53482/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the Garda and the stations that were operational in each Garda station in County Monaghan for each year 2009-2023 inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53483/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education if she will engage with Bus Éireann to address the situation where a child whose application has been sanctioned is still waiting to be assigned transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53689/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 9 November 2023, which centre the two CT scanners and one MRI scanner are based in within the Cavan and Monaghan Hospital group; if a request has been made for additional MRI or CT scanners to be located at Monaghan Hospital; the status of any such request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53237/23]

Niamh Smyth — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Health 4 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53721/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if the ages for cancer screening are being reviewed by his Department for breast and bowel cancer; if lowering the age of same is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53737/23]
- 2023-12-06 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) cannot get a primary care certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53998/23]
- 2023-12-06 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health to please speed up an appointment for a person (details supplied) to see a physiotherapist in Bailieborough Health centre Kells Road, Bailieborough, Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54031/23]
Tourism 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has had discussions with RTÉ in relation to their new strategic vision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53576/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide details of the discussions held at the EU Sports Council meeting in Brussels on 24 November 2023. [53577/23]
Social 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection to review a case with regard to the free school meals initiative (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53727/23]
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the specifics regarding the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department presently if she will outline the specifics regarding the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department presently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53598/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department is taking to ensure affordable housing is provided in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53596/23]
- 2023-12-07 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the changes that took place to the tenant purchase scheme in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53597/23]
Justice 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Justice if a cap can be examined for the number of times a person can access free legal aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53736/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-12-06 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a child (details supplied) is waiting on an assessment of needs; if the appointment will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54036/23]