Louth — week of Mon, 24 Feb

What your Louth TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Feb – 2 Mar 2025 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 43 questions · 2 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-02-25 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 88–62

Voted for 2 Erin McGreehan · Paula Butterly

Voted against 2 Ged Nash · Joanna Byrne

Did not vote 1 Ruairí Ó Murchú

Erin McGreehan — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 24 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 24 total

Housing 9 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the actions taken in Louth by the Land Development Agency, and to list the State-owned sites that might be available for potential development. [7300/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any active plans to build social and affordable housing units on State lands in Louth by the Land Development Agency. [7301/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there has been a directive from the Department to local authorities to limit the number of approved housing body units that can be delivered in a local authority area. [7303/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the work that has been done in cooperation with the Department of Health with regard to the forward planning for future young adults who have a disability who will have a housing need. [7304/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing units have been delivered specifically for people with intellectual disabilities over the years 2020 – 2024, per local authority area, in tabular form. [7305/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make disability access training compulsory for technical and planning staff within each local authority. [7316/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make funding available for each local authority for accessibility auditing and accessibility improvements to services to the public. [7317/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make funding available for each local authority to ensure each event organised by the local authority would have individuals’ accessibility needs addressed. [7318/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make disability equity and awareness training compulsory for all local authority staff. [7319/25]
Health 6 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the specific policy and procedure that apply to the discharge of patients by taxi from the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if the policy is adhered to in circumstances (details supplied). [7320/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if he will review a policy and procedure specifically concerning the psychiatric unit at Drogheda Hospital (details supplied) and provide a report on this review. [7321/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to clarify the policy in the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda specifically concerning communication with inpatients during their stay and the role of the key nurse assigned daily to a patient; if their role is solely confined to the distribution of medications; and if not, if it is to care for each patient as an individual and their specific care needs. [7322/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the staffing vacancies with the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and the way this impacts on numbers of inpatients that the unit can care for. [7323/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health to issue a review on the practices within the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when an individual arrives seeking urgent treatment during a mental health crisis; and the actions that are taken to care for each individual to engage with and ensure that they do not leave the unit without being assessed by a suitably qualified person. [7324/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health the policy within psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when a person who has presented looking for help and treatment during a mental health crisis leaves and sadly dies by suicide; if it is practice that an automatic review into the case occurs; if so, the duration of that review; and if not, the reason. [7325/25]
Social 3 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for preventing an individual who works in the public sector to apply for the work and access support grant considering that reasonable accommodations and supports are not guaranteed in the public sector and the offering of such supports for a public sector employee is down to internal budgetary restraints and not the individual’s needs. [7314/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Social Protection how the number of appeals in relation to disability payments compares to appeals for other social protection payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8431/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce an annual cost of disability support payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8430/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Louth benefiting from the national childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7726/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Louth currently on the waiting list for an assessment of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7727/25]
Defence 2 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence how the Defence Forces are contributing to enhancing cybersecurity; the collaboration in place that the Defence Forces has with educational stakeholders in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5811/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the efforts being made to establish a unit of the Naval Reserve in Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5810/25]
Tourism 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the Night Time Economy Accessibility Survey that closed for submissions in June 2024; and if he will provide the report of the consultation. [7315/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Education what engagement she has had with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to pensions for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8591/25]

New lobbying 1 return

Polio Survivors Ireland Social Protection
- Annual Cost of Disability Payment

Ged Nash — Labour Party 1 vote · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Health 3 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied) from the Minister of State for Mental Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7188/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the range of specific financial supports or grant aid the HSE provides to not-for-profit organisations that operate emergency accommodation in cases where such bodies also provide medical supports such as supervised medication management, addiction supports and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8692/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the reason the decision to close down the HSE’s heartwatch programme was taken; if she is aware that the programme’s closure is having a significant impact on those who depended on the programme to monitor their heart health, particularly those not in receipt of a medical card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8730/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details on the policy approach that the Revenue Commissioner takes to the resolution and repayment of outstanding tax or VAT liabilities of firms arising for companies adversely impacted by the energy cost crisis since 2022, in the context of court-appointed examinership processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8334/25]

Joanna Byrne — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 3 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 3 total

Tourism 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the measures put in place to ensure that output performance measures, key performance indicators or targets will be applied to the eight of his Department’s 14 high-level strategies that did not previously have corresponding output performance measures or targets in the revised estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7450/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when the Ministerial brief will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8020/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Transport the timeline for the extension of the use of Leap Cards at Drogheda train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7999/25]

New lobbying 1 return

IRISH MUSIC RIGHTS ORGANISATION CLG Arts
- Sharing of information on IMRO, its activities, objectives and its policy proposals

Paula Butterly — Fine Gael 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Ruairí Ó Murchú — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [6984/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [6985/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide the updated figures from the CDNT workforce report carried out in October 2024; if she will outline the strategy to deal with the current vacancy rate in CDNTs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6975/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown, by county, of the numbers of children waiting on assessments of needs and therapies across the State; the plans in place to reduce the backlogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6976/25]
Defence 2 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the current involvement of Irish Defence Forces personnel in UNIFIL missions in Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5944/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will detail the most recent interaction there has been with the United Nations regarding the death of a person (details supplied); the work being done to expediate the response from the UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5943/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education to outline plans for the creation of additional autism places at primary and secondary schools in County Louth for the next academic year, 25/26; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6003/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the school inclusion model; to outline future plans for the delivery of holistic therapies in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6002/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide an update on the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme; if there are future plans for the expansion of these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6982/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to a system whereby those who on carer’s allowance, and who are working, are able to provide information on their working hours on a more regular basis to the Department avoiding unintentional accrued debts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6983/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the review of the primary medical certification and appeal schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8870/25]