Kildare South — week of Mon, 17 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Kildare South TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Feb – 23 Feb 2025 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages

2025-02-19 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 101–55

Voted for 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

Provision of Special Education

2025-02-19 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 87–69

Voted for 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

The motion · motion passed 87–70

Voted for 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

Housing Crisis

2025-02-19 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–69

Voted for 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

The motion · motion passed 88–69

Voted for 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-02-18 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 84–67

Voted for 1 Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 2 Fiona O'Loughlin · Martin Heydon

Fiona O'Loughlin — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mark Wall — Labour Party 6 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Social 3 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to mark the 50th anniversary of the registration on 8 March 1975 of the first independent and impartial, State-supported Citizens Information Services (at an event in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, where Tánaiste Brendan Corish was guest of honour); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5662/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the metrics put in place to measure the quality of the Citizens Information Service before and after the restructuring of corporate governance structures enforced in 2018 despite a majority in Dáil Éireann deeming those changes "flawed and ill-considered" (Joint Oireachtas Committee Report, 1 June 2017); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5663/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is satisfied that the additional expenditure of €4.55 million on restructured Citizens Information Service, as reported to the Oireachtas committee on social protection in November 2017, represents value for money; whether the restructured corporate governance model has, as yet, achieved European Foundation for Quality Management accreditation, as the county-wide and area-wide Citizens Information Service did before restructuring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5664/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board tutors will receive proper employment contracts with guaranteed hours and improved conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6312/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the up-to-date position with an application for an Irish passport for a person in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7112/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware that emergency vehicles are being taken off ambulance officers given the importance of these vehicles to response times; the number of times these officers have been able to respond to incidents within their own communities, given that an issue with benefit-in-kind is being quoted as the reason; the efforts he had made to resolve the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7008/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education for an update on additional class space for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7006/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health the reason emergency vehicles are being taken off ambulance officers given the importance of these vehicles to response times; the number of times these officers have been able to respond to incidents within their own communities; the efforts she has made to resolve this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7007/25]

Martin Heydon — Fine Gael 5 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Seán Ó Fearghaíl — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Health 5 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses by location based in CHO7, as of 7 February 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5817/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that have attended the minor injuries unit at Naas General Hospital for each week since 1 December 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5818/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health if she will address the issues relating to long Covid awareness (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5841/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the national average ambulance response time; the Carlow ambulance average response time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5914/25]
- 2025-02-20 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health her views on whether audiology services in the south east are inadequate; when an audiologist will be appointed (details supplied); her views on whether repairs to hearing aids should only take place in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6822/25]
Housing 2 questions
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year costs to recruit four additional WTE hydrometeorologists for Met Eireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5814/25]
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to extend the temporary waiver in respect of development contributions payable to local authorities for building a house in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5876/25]
Defence 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the numerical strength of the Army, Air Corps and the Naval Service in each year from 2015 to date in 2025; if he will indicate the numbers of personnel who are male and female; if will provide the establishment figure for each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5634/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of disallowed applications for carer's allowance in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5815/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardai by rank attached to Kildare divisional drugs unit as of 10 February 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5816/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the lack of childcare places in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5921/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-02-18 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has met formally with the CEO of Solas since his appointment as Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5819/25]

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns