Galway West — week of Mon, 24 Jun — Watch Them Work

What your Galway West TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Jun – 30 Jun 2024 · 6 TDs · 7 bills voted on · 40 questions · 4 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023

2024-06-26 · 1 vote · People Before Profit-Solidarity PMB

A bill to direct the Central Bank to cap interest rates on private dwelling house mortgages at 3 per cent

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A bill to direct the Central Bank to cap interest rates on private dwelling house mortgages at 3 per cent; and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 63–82

Voted for 2 Catherine Connolly · Mairéad Farrell

Voted against 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009

2024-06-26 · 5 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 65–82

Voted for 2 Catherine Connolly · Mairéad Farrell

Voted against 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 65–81

Voted for 2 Catherine Connolly · Mairéad Farrell

Voted against 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

The motion · motion passed 97–16

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 1 Catherine Connolly

Abstained 1 Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 65–85

Voted for 2 Catherine Connolly · Mairéad Farrell

Voted against 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

The motion · motion passed 97–16

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 1 Catherine Connolly

Abstained 1 Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

International Protection, Asylum and Migration

2024-06-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 63–88

Voted for 2 Mairéad Farrell · Noel Grealish

Voted against 3 Catherine Connolly · Hildegarde Naughton · Éamon Ó Cuív

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

The motion · motion passed 79–72

Voted for 2 Hildegarde Naughton · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 3 Catherine Connolly · Mairéad Farrell · Noel Grealish

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

Affordable Electricity

2024-06-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 79–66

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 2 Catherine Connolly · Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 2 John Connolly · Seán Kyne

The motion · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 1 Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 3 Catherine Connolly · John Connolly · Seán Kyne

Nomination of Member of Government

2024-06-26 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 86–60

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 1 Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 3 Catherine Connolly · John Connolly · Seán Kyne

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages

2024-06-26 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 80–62

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 1 Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 3 Catherine Connolly · John Connolly · Seán Kyne

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2024-06-25 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 69–50

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · Noel Grealish · Éamon Ó Cuív

Voted against 1 Mairéad Farrell

Did not vote 3 Catherine Connolly · John Connolly · Seán Kyne

Catherine Connolly — Independent 9 votes · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Children 4 questions
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the development of a formal policy on respite, including agreed access and prioritisation criteria, as promised in the Action Plan for Disability Services 2024–2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26805/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the promised respite investment plan; when will the plan be published; if the plan will focus on respite for persons with disabilities; if not, it will also include respite for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26806/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Farrelly Commission, investigation into the care home in the south east; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26822/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm that access to homeless services is permitted for those Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection who reach the 90-day cut off for State-provided accommodation and who have no alternative accommodation in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26896/24]
Finance 3 questions
- 2024-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the options available to a person under the new guidelines for self-employed persons to allow for recognition as a self-employed sole trader without the necessity to register as a limited company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27505/24]
- 2024-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance to provide details of the review undertaken in advance of the publication of the new guidelines for self-employed persons which obliges a sole trader to register as a limited company in order to be recognised as self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27506/24]
- 2024-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the options available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27507/24]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 23 May 2024, for an update on his plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students at the University of Galway; his plans for the building of additional student accommodation in Galway, in light of the recent scrapping of the proposal for the leasing of approximately 272 beds from the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27065/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 23 May 2024, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the review by Solas and his Department of the project proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27064/24]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 9 May 2024, for a status update on his engagement at EU level to seek a review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27142/24]
- 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 9 May 2024, the details of his engagement to date, both at bilateral level with his Israeli counterpart, and at EU level, with regard to the designation in October 2021, which remains in place, of six Palestinian human rights organisations as terrorist groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27143/24]
Environment 2 questions
- 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 14 May 2024, the status of the development by his Department of a monitoring and reporting system for the local authority climate action plans; the details of any engagement he or his Department has had to date with Galway City Council or Galway County Council with regard to their local authority climate action plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27151/24]
- 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 14 May 2024, if phase two of the small-scale renewable energy support scheme is now open for applications; if not, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27150/24]

Hildegarde Naughton — Fine Gael 13 votes · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

INTO - Irish National Teachers' Organisation · 2 returns Education and Training
- Invitation to National Lobby Day
- Seeking additional funding and resources for special education schools and mainstream schools with special education settings

John Connolly — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mairéad Farrell — Sinn Féin 13 votes · 13 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 13 total

Further and Higher Education 9 questions
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on progress in addressing the issues with the craft apprenticeship system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26566/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on progress in addressing the current challenges around student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26567/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when his Department’s new student accommodation strategy will be published. [26568/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the supports available for those students fleeing war from Gaza now studying in Irish institutions. [26570/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when the technological universities’ new borrowing framework will be put in place. [26572/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on the expansion of mental health service across third level institutions. [26569/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on the proposed new veterinary school. [26571/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when students can apply for grant funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26840/24]
- 2024-06-27 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Mairéad Farrell den Aire Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta an bhféadfadh sé soiléiriú a dhéanamh ar Cheist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 269 an 30 Bealtaine 2024 agus Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh 116 an 20 Meitheamh 2024 (sonraí tugtha) agus an bhféadfadh sé an cheist a fhreagairt ina iomláine [27686/24]
Environment 2 questions
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if an approved NGO observer at NASCO (details supplied) furnished any scientific evidence or data to his officials in the inland fisheries division that validates the current policy requiring all rod-caught Atlantic salmon above 65cm to be released alive and that harvesting of Atlantic salmon in September should cease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26922/24]
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to his Department's officials co-hosting with Inland Fisheries Ireland the forty-first annual meeting of NASCO in Westport, County Mayo between 3 and 7 June, where the threat of invasive pink salmon (oncorhynchus gorbuscha) to native Atlantic salmon was discussed; if he will continue with the perverse policy of conserving pink salmon in Irish waters, particularly in special areas of conservation under current fisheries legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26923/24]
Justice 1 question
- 2024-06-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the review of the criteria for residency permits for medical professionals, as outlined in correspondence (details supplied); if there is a date by which the new criteria are expected to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26897/24]
Defence 1 question
- 2024-06-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 11 June 2024, if he can clarify that the reply he gave was in relation to the year 2024, as this was the year the question was referring to; to confirm that in addition to the five nations mentioned, that personnel from the United States were also present and whether they had “participant” or “observer” status; the rank and role of the officers in attendance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27555/24]

New lobbying 1 return

INTO - Irish National Teachers' Organisation Education and Training
- Invitation to National Lobby Day

Noel Grealish — Independent 13 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Health 1 question
- 2024-06-27 Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the reimbursement of strips for the CoaguChek machine under the GMS and drugs payment schemes to bring Ireland into line with other European countries; if the policy not to refund these products can be reviewed by the Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27639/24]

Seán Kyne — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.