Mayo — week of Mon, 24 Feb

What your Mayo TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Feb – 2 Mar 2025 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 22 questions · 1 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 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 1 Paul Lawless

Did not vote 1 Rose Conway-Walsh

Alan Dillon — Fine Gael 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Dara Calleary — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Crosscare Food
- Yvonne Fleming wrote to Minister Calleary to invite him to Crosscare Food Services for an update on their food poverty case work service.

Keira Keogh — Fine Gael 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Paul Lawless — Aontú 1 vote · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Taoiseach if he will list the days on which his Department was closed due to weather warnings over the past year. [4495/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Taoiseach if he will outline the engagements he had with the National Emergency Coordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [4496/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Taoiseach if his Department collates statistics on the number of SMEs that have closed down in County Mayo in the past five years; and if so, to outline the figures that reveal how many SMEs closed in Mayo over each of the past five years. [6361/25]
Social 3 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection when the abolition of the means test for carers will occur as families are depending on this pre-election promise being fulfilled promptly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8339/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection how he plans to deal with the very slow delivery of reimbursements from the humanitarian assistance scheme despite saying at the beginning it would take mere days. [7935/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will offer rapid intervention on an urgent case of a person (details supplied) whose mobile home was entirely destroyed during storm Éowyn, thus deeming them homeless. [7936/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how she plans to improve retention and quality in early years education, considering early childhood educators have had to fight for wages and conditions in the sector that are unsustainable. [7895/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures her Department is taking to recruit and support more foster families considering the severe shortage of both residential and foster care placements are impacting on children in need (details supplied). [7894/25]
Health 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the funding stream available to apply for an AED defibrillator for a school (details supplied), or if her Department will supply one. [7934/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health to provide a copy of the report produced as a result of the review of the operation of the revised model of care for termination of pregnancy services undertaken by the HSE's National Women and Infants Health Programme. [8356/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education if she will cease the promotion of transgender ideology in primary and secondary school curricula, given the extensive research from comprehensive studies such as the Cass report, which provides stark warnings on the issue, and the fact that it is being implemented without consultation with parents, teachers, or consideration of school ethos. [8599/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education if she will allow a school (details supplied) to adopt a blended Irish-English approach instead of a solely Irish-language approach, enabling the school to address pupil numbers while maintaining a strong Irish-language ethos; and if she will meet with the principal and management to discuss these issues and grant the school the necessary flexibility in this regard. [8598/25]

Rose Conway-Walsh — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the Cabinet committee on water quality [6037/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [7769/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [8191/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the school transport scheme in County Mayo; if the service from Derryfadda and Boleyglass to Crossmolina, which operated until 2021, will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8616/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the level of training which teachers in mainstream classes receive in the Junior Cycle Level 2 Learning program (L2LP) course; if schools are allocated hours to provide specialised teaching for those accessing L2LP and L1LP within the mainstream classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8617/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for the carer’s allowance will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8605/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection when changes to the rural social scheme will be enacted to enable participants of the scheme to sign contracts for three years instead of one year; and if he will provide an update on the implementation of the report on the review of the rural social scheme. [8604/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Mayo waiting for an assessment of needs; the number of children in Mayo waiting for subsequent services and therapies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7767/25]
Defence 1 question
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for an update on his Department’s framework for resilience in essential services; the development of an enhanced national risk assessment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6036/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Justice if there are any funding streams open to charities working with survivors of sexual violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8267/25]