Dublin Mid-West — week of Mon, 30 Sept — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin Mid-West TDs did this week

Mon, 30 Sept – 6 Oct 2024 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 26 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 94–47

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Financial Resolution No. 2: Value-Added Tax

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 81–62

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 89–53

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties

2024-10-01 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 87–52

Voted for 1 Emer Higgins

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Gino Kenny · Mark Ward

Did not vote 2 Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Emer Higgins — Fine Gael 4 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Housing 2 questions
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the pricing of homes under the affordable purchase scheme is based on an open market valuation, rather than the actual costs of delivery of the home; and to explain what happens to the portion of the affordable housing fund in cases where the cost of delivery is lower than the open market valuation. [38494/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the rules of the tenant purchase scheme where one tenant has been a tenant for over ten years and the other tenant has not. [38508/24]
Education 2 questions
- 2024-10-02 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if consideration is being given to introducing extra time in State examinations for those with certain learning differences (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39405/24]
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the options available to the parent of a student (details supplied) who has been unable to secure a placement in their school of choice. [39566/24]

Mark Ward — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Health 8 questions
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health to outline, given the pending sale of a nursing home (details supplied) to a for-profit private care provider, the efforts his Department, the older persons’ portfolio, and their Ministers, make to secure the facility as a high-quality, State-run public facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39055/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health to outline, given the lack of publicly funded older persons’ beds, the measures he has taken in his tenure as a Minister to ensure that private homes in crisis going for sale are secured by the State, in order that residents are not paying the price for State policy failures. [39056/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health to provide copies of all correspondence from his office to show the actions that were taken to secure a nursing home (details supplied) as a State-run facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39057/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health to outline, given the high death toll in nursing homes (details supplied), the steps he has taken by way of research to investigate the impact of transfer trauma on residents in these facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39058/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health for an update on the TrakCare system in the National Forensic Mental Health Service; to report on the improvement to services as a result of its use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39153/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health for an update on the integrated community case management system that was to be developed for services such as primary care; the cost of this system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39154/24]
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he can guarantee when inpatient residential dual diagnosis services will resume in a treatment centre, details supplied; the reason for the delay in reopening these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39162/24]
- 2024-10-03 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the progress made to date by the productivity and savings task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39161/24]
Justice 2 questions
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice the cost to the OPW of providing dog kennels in Garda dog handlers' homes, per kennel, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39002/24]
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice the cost to the OPW of providing electrical vehicle charging points in Garda stations in the Dublin metropolitan region, per station, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39003/24]
Environment 1 question
- 2024-10-01 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the options available to an SEAI warmer home scheme applicant (details supplied) who reports that the proposed works would not be up to the standards in section M of the building regulations; if this application, which has now been rejected, will be inspected by his Department; if assistance can be given to the applicant to carry out appropriate works in their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38770/24]
Children 1 question
- 2024-10-02 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting times for services in community disability network teams in Dublin mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39155/24]

Paul Nicholas Gogarty — Independent 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Shane Moynihan — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.