Dublin Bay South — week of Mon, 18 Mar

What your Dublin Bay South TDs did this week

Mon, 18 Mar – 24 Mar 2024 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 38 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2024-03-20 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 70–61

Voted for 2 Eamon Ryan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Chris Andrews · Ivana Bacik

Did not vote 2 Eoin Hayes · James Geoghegan

Eoin Hayes — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Ivana Bacik — Labour Party 1 vote · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 24 total

Health 8 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health his plans to include pharmacists in the MMR catch-up programme, given the current GP shortage, which may delay the provision of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11705/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health his views on recent legislation passed in Westminster to create an optional bereavement certificate for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks' gestation; and his plans to introduce a similar initiative here. [11946/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the status of the independent review of the radiation therapist profession, which was agreed between the HSE, his Department and an organisation (details supplied) under the auspices of the Workplace Relations Committee, which has been underway since December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13433/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of people who have participated in the Laura Brennan HPV vaccination catch-up programme to date; the targets set for the programme; if he will report on the programme extension review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13434/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding to date which has been allocated to the National Skin Cancer Prevention Plan 2023 - 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13435/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing prescription charges for all medical card holders. [13436/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme to a €60 threshold per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13437/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the amount of annual funding budgeted for the National Skin Cancer Prevention Plan 2023-2026 to conduct its annual activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13438/24]
Housing 4 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if allowing for publication of election candidates' home addresses is mandated in statute; and, if not, if he has given consideration to issuing a memorandum or statutory instrument, ending the practice of publication of home addresses of election candidates. [11747/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he expects the tripartite agreement on the delivery of social and affordable housing in the Poolbeg SDZ will be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11766/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on a circular issued to staff at polling centres which would, in certain circumstances, prevent some disabled people from accessing assistance in casting their ballot in the final two hours of voting; if he will end the practice of such advice issuing; his plans to ensure that voting in referendums or elections is accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12457/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has carried out a review of his Department's voids programme to take account of construction inflation; if not, his plans to do so; the average cost of a void turnaround in each local authority area; and the average time taken to convert a void in each local authority area, in tabular form. [13082/24]
Children 4 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of beds for international protection applicants which were empty in each week of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11669/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason emergency measures to temporarily house international protection applicants who are sleeping rough were lifted; and the method used to determine when such measures should be ended. [11670/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on conditions for international protection applicants sleeping in tents in congregated areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13153/24]
- 2024-03-21 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of core funding provided in Budget 2022 which was used to uplift wages in the early years and school age childcare sector; the amount which has remained unspent; and if the balance is publicly available on an ongoing basis. [13419/24]
Environment 3 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of windfarms; the related installed capacity of these windfarms which have exited their support scheme contracts under the alternative energy requirement support scheme and, separately, the renewable energy feed-in tariff support scheme, in the years 2000 to 2023, in tabular form. [11609/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when a noise abatement order under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 is granted; what responsibility does a local authority have to enforce it; what actions it can take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11671/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when a noise abatement order under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 is granted; what responsibility does the EPA have to enforce it; and what actions it can take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11672/24]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 15 February 2024, the rationale for the Government’s position of non-intervention in the Gambia v. Myanmar case before the International Court of Justice. [11665/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the deteriorating situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. [12221/24]
Education 2 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education the reason that funding sanctioned in June 2020, for four new classrooms for an ASD unit at a school (details supplied) has not yet delivered; when resources will be allocated for provision of autism classrooms at the schools; and if she will make a statement on the need for more provision for autistic and neurodiverse children in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 8 and Dublin 6W. [11664/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if she will expedite the tender process for construction of permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied); if construction will be completed within the previously announced timeline; and if the permanent accommodation will be completed in advance of the start of the school year commencing 2024. [11666/24]
Finance 1 question
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that applicants for the help-to-buy scheme who are still repaying Covid supports are being automatically rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13080/24]

James Geoghegan — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Jim O'Callaghan — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Justice 4 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice how many prosecutions for dangerous cycling were taken in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11637/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide an update on the deployment of body cameras for Gardaí in the DMR north central. [12098/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice when the new statutory instrument extending Garda retirement age from 60 to 62 years will be signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12291/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice the resources that were allocated in 2023 by An Garda Síochána to providing daily security outside the Russian Embassy; the cost of this security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12692/24]
Finance 2 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Finance the steps his Department is taking to ensure that community centres and halls have access to insurance for public liability. [11697/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Finance whether services such as yoga, pilates, boxercise and spinning are being afforded a financial advantage over activities such as martial arts and gymnastics, which are required to charge VAT. [12701/24]
Education 2 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education the reason for the delay in the tender process and construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11630/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education the breakdown, by county of the 212,000 students enrolled in approximately 670 post-primary schools who will benefit from the new scheme to provide free schoolbooks, in tabular form. [11794/24]
Housing 2 questions
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown, by county of the 39,900 homes, in the context of planning measures introduced in 2021, with some 39,900 homes granted planning permission with conditions prohibiting the bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to a single purchaser between May 2021 and December 2023. [11767/24]
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the regulations restricting short-term lets in rent pressure zones. [12097/24]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of occasions since January 2018 that his Department has sanctioned a financial package for an individual leaving the public service on foot of the provisions of circular 9 of 2018 issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and to identify the individual departments/agencies and the costs involved in each case. [11789/24]
Children 1 question
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the rationale for capping the amount of funding for the Early Learning and Care Building Blocks Capital Grant Stage 2 at €100,000 to include professional fees and VAT, while not allowing early learning and care services the use of their own reserves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13083/24]
Health 1 question
- 2024-03-20 Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the patient discharge policy operating in St. Vincent's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12219/24]