Dún Laoghaire — week of Mon, 4 Nov — Watch Them Work

What your Dún Laoghaire TDs did this week

Mon, 4 Nov – 10 Nov 2024 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 25 questions · 5 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020

2024-11-06 · 1 vote · Aontú PMB

A bill to ensure the provision of an equitable price for beef to farmers operating in that sector in order to ensure that it is a sustainable means for them to earn a livelihood

full description

A bill to ensure the provision of an equitable price for beef to farmers operating in that sector in order to ensure that it is a sustainable means for them to earn a livelihood; and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 57–69

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 2 Barry Ward · Richard Boyd Barrett

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2024-11-05 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 72–58

Voted for 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages

2024-11-05 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 75–55

Voted for 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

Barry Ward — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Lir Communications Ltd Education and Training
- Letter to invite local politicians to visit Explorium following its reopening in 2024.

Cormac Devlin — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 7 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 7 total

Education 4 questions
- 2024-11-07 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45519/24]
- 2024-11-07 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the provision of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45520/24]
- 2024-11-07 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45521/24]
- 2024-11-07 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45522/24]
Housing 1 question
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a development (details supplied) comes under the defective apartment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45205/24]
Transport 1 question
- 2024-11-07 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport the number of kilometres of new rail track laid since 2020; the funding provided by his Department in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45523/24]
Justice 1 question
- 2024-11-07 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice the conditions necessary for a spouse of an Irish citizen to apply for citizenship, with particular reference to the Minister's powers to waive the residency requirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45518/24]

New lobbying 1 return

Lir Communications Ltd Education and Training
- Letter to invite local politicians to visit Explorium following its reopening in 2024.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Lir Communications Ltd Education and Training
- Letter to invite local politicians to visit Explorium following its reopening in 2024.

Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity 2 votes · 18 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 18 total

Taoiseach 5 questions
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on the work of his Department's shared island unit. [43250/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [44998/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to provide an update following his attendance at the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit and European Council. [45241/24]
- 2024-11-06 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on the launched report of the Dublin City Taskforce. [45240/24]
- 2024-11-06 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on his meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Lebanon. [45239/24]
Education 4 questions
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education her plans to fill the almost 1,000 vacant teaching posts across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44992/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the measures she is putting in place to ensure that children with additional needs are not left without their SETs due to the shortage of teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44993/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will give a firm timeline for the move of a school to a new site (details supplied); and to outline the issues if any to ensure a timely move from the current to site to Ballyowen-Meadows. [45107/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the full details of all unfilled posts across the Dún Laoghaire constituency, by school. [45108/24]
Foreign 4 questions
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will examine an issue regarding the issuing of an Irish passport (details supplied) under a name legally changed by deed poll, and where evidence of usage does not meet the criteria set out in sections 10(3) and 10(4) of the Passports Act 2008 (and amendments), but where the applicant is relying on section 10(5) of the Act, which deals with the factual assumption of a person not having such evidence, and is requesting that the Minister exercises his power under section 10(5) and issues the applicant’s Irish passport under their new name with an observation noting their former birth name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44480/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is monitoring the increased crackdown on freedom of assembly and expression in Bahrain in response to pro-Palestine protests since October 2023; if he will raise concerns about the arrests of hundreds of individuals, including minors, clerics, and protesters since late September, who have expressed solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon across Bahrain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44588/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of the conditions in Bahrain’s Jau Prison, where political prisoners have been on strike since March 2024 following the death of a political prisoner (details supplied); if he will raise concerns about reports of recent escalatory measures taken against political prisoners held in Building 6, who have been held incommunicado after telephone calls were cut off three weeks ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44589/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will raised the cases of award-winning human rights defenders (details supplied) in Bahrain who have been arbitrarily imprisoned since 2011; if he is concerned about their health deterioration due to the denial of medical care; if he will make representations with his counterparts to secure their immediate and unconditional release; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44590/24]
Further and Higher Education 3 questions
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will review the guidelines around SUSI grants to automatically ensure that all mature students are assessed as independent even if they are living with a parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43924/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will review the stipulation in the guidelines for SUSI grants to ensure that the “first point of entry” requirement for assessment is changed to ensure that if an applicant’s circumstances change over their years in college, they can be reassessed to take into account new circumstances, including details of a change of address that would result in being assessed as “independent”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43925/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if she will allow SUSI to have a discretionary role in assessing applications as not all circumstances fit easily into criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43926/24]
Health 2 questions
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 256 of 2 October 2024, when a reply will issue from the HSE to the request to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts in the Ireland East Hospital Group in September in 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; the details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and, broken down by hospital and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44217/24]
- 2024-11-05 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 2 October 2024, when a decision will be made on the business case for the CT scanner which was submitted to HSE in 2023 for St. Michael’s Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; the reason the decision is taking this long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44614/24]

New lobbying 1 return

Lir Communications Ltd Education and Training
- Letter to invite local politicians to visit Explorium following its reopening in 2024.