Meath West — week of Mon, 24 Feb

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Feb – 2 Mar 2025 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 63 questions · 0 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 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Social 3 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Social Protection the plans to examine what modifications or changes may be made to support women who currently fall outside the existing schemes to qualify for a State pension. [7908/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to examine what modifications or changes may be made to support women who currently fall outside the existing schemes to qualify for a State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8253/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have now been made to parents in Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8252/25]
Education 3 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education when a school (details supplied) will be divested to Meath County Council. [8585/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education if she will give a progress report on the school campus promised at a location (details supplied); and if she will confirm all the schools that will be located there and any sporting or other facilities that will be co-located there. [8603/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education if she will authorise a school bus service for children in the Rathcore area of County Meath attending second level schools in Trim, in accordance with the recommendations of the school bus review published last year. [8602/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [6494/25]

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 1 vote · 56 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 56 total

Justice 27 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for IPAS who reached the State via the north of Ireland last year and for each of the past five years. [7132/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for IPAS registered at the airports, ports and the IPO respectively, in 2024 and for each of the past five years. [7133/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for IPAS that have used the courts to appeal. [7134/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount the IPAS applicant process has cost for each of the past five years. [7135/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount the International Protection Appeals Tribunal has spent on external decision-making services in each of the past five years. [7136/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount the total International Protection Appeals Tribunal has cost in each of the past five years. [7137/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice how the average length of time the IPAS application process taken for each of the past five years; the length of time the longest IPAS application process has taken for each of the past five years. [7138/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of times EURODAC has been used for each of the past five years. [7140/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of checks for asylum seekers that have been undertaken along the border with the north of Ireland by the Gardaí, for each month, for the past five years. [7141/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of people that have been arrested for carrying a knife for each of the past five years; and the number of crimes that have been committed with a knife for each of the past five years. [7149/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí that were recruited for each of the past ten years; the number of Gardaí retired for each of the past ten years; the number of Gardaí that are employed by the state for each of the past ten years; the number of Gardaí that resigned for each of the past ten years; and the number of Gardaí have been injured for each of the past ten years. [7150/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí that have been fired for each of the past ten years; the number of Gardaí that have been suspended with pay for each of the past ten years; the average length of time a Gardaí has spent out on suspended with pay leave; the number of Gardaí out sick for each of the past five years; and the average length of time a Gardaí is out on sick leave for each of the past ten years. [7151/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice to examine the case of a person (details supplied). [7367/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice whether he will permit this Deputy to visit the International Protection Office to see the operation and to ask questions of the staff. [7368/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice it has emerged that the suspect being held for the killing of a person (details supplied) is currently facing charges before the courts for violent disorder and producing a knife during a dispute; the steps he is taking to reduce recidivism by people on bail; the travel restrictions the suspect was under as a result of the bail; and the reason an electronic tag not used in this case. [7497/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of electronic tags that have been used by the State on criminals or on people on bail in each of the past ten years; the travel restrictions that have been imposed on criminals or on people who are on bail for each of the past ten years; and the number of crimes that have been committed by people who are on bail for the past ten years. [7498/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to a finding of professional misconduct by the Medical Council in relation to the former deputy State pathologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7902/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if his Department records the number of court cases over the past two decades in which a former deputy State pathologist (details supplied) testified; and if such data can be shared with this Deputy. [7903/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of convictions or acquittals in court which resulted after testimony delivered by the former deputy State pathologist. [7904/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the information that EURODAC provides; if EURODAC provides information on criminal records, police checks or convictions; if EURODAC is linked to Europol; and if Europol has information on all IPAS applicants that have criminal records. [8649/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if DNA is used to prove family relationships with all family reunification applications; if not, the system that is used; and if applicants that fail these systems are refused entry and or deported. [8650/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the reason a person (details supplied), who was convicted for rape and attempted murder in Sligo, was granted asylum on appeal in Ireland, given that they were from Pakistan and on a student visa in Britain. [8651/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of sham marriages that have happened in Ireland for each of the past five years; the proportion of these sham marriages of the total that his Department/Gardaí have investigated for each of the past five years; if it is the case that documents are not verified for their integrity in the EU Treaty Rights Division, Immigration Service Delivery, Department of Justice, 13 to 14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2; if all of these documents are verified with the issuing banks and other organisations; the number of staff this division has had for each of the past five years; and the number of fraudulent passports this office has found in each of past five years. [8652/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if any banks have refused to verify the integrity of bank documents by those that seek to register a marriage under EU Treaty Rights; and the reason they have done this. [8653/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of people for each of the past ten years that have applied through the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrant scheme; and the number of people that have applied for this scheme that have already received a deportation order for each of the past ten years. [8654/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the immigration penalties that are enforced on those that apply for asylum under false pretences. [8656/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice to outline the security checks that are carried out before the issuance of an Irish passport in the case of a person who comes to Ireland on a student visa, then applies for the leave to remain status, and then goes on to marry an Irish national. [8657/25]
Housing 5 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes built and acquired in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [8073/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targets for delivery of social homes in each of the past ten years and for the next five years. [8074/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount paid out under the vacant property refurbishment grant in each month since its establishment, in tabular form. [8075/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount allocated to each housing body in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; the number of houses delivered by each body in each of those years; and what the targets were in each of those years. [8077/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the lowest and highest amount paid by a buyer for an affordable home in each of the past ten years. [8078/25]
Children 4 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times she has met with or corresponded with the CEO of Tusla since she took office; and the dates upon which such engagements took place. [7689/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childcare providers who have closed their businesses in each of the past ten years. [7690/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of modular units constructed for international protection applicants or refugees in each of the past three years; and the total cost of delivery of these units each year. [8076/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of CDNTs around the country that have no psychologist; and to detail where these CDNTs are located. [8959/25]
Health 4 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if there has been any investigation of reported irregularities associated with the €2.1 million spend by a body (details supplied) on a digitisation system launched in late 2020. [7270/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown had a broken CT scanner recently (details supplied) and if patients in need of CTs were transferred elsewhere by ambulance at great cost with two doctors each time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7970/25]
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all the most expensive machines that is, CT Scanners, MRI machines and so on, that are held in the HSE system; and the number of these that are currently not working; if a maintenance department tasked with keeping these costly machines working and serviced exists; and the steps that are being taken to ensure that machine malfunction do not impact on patient care. [7971/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS teams around the country that have no psychologist; and to detail where these CAMHS teams are located. [8958/25]
Social 4 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid out in fraudulent pandemic unemployment payment payments since the start of the Covid pandemic. [7722/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who applied for the various humanitarian assistance schemes introduced after the recent storm; the number who were successful in their application; the number who were unsuccessful; and the amount paid out under the humanitarian assistance schemes. [7723/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the total cost for each of the past ten years for the weekly social welfare payment given to international protection applicants; and the total cost of the additional needs payment claimed by international protection applicants for each of the past ten years. [8659/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of non-nationals that have claimed jobseeker's allowance for each of the past ten years; the total cost to the State of jobseeker's claims by non-nationals for each of the past ten years; and the proportion of all jobseeker's allowance claimed by non-nationals for each of the past ten years. [8660/25]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide immediate funding assistance for farmers who had damage to roofs in the recent storm. [7142/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures currently in place to protect poultry flocks from an outbreak of avian flu; the measures that will be put in place should an outbreak of flu occur; and the compensation or support that is available to flock owners should culling become necessary. [8694/25]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the number of persons in employment in County Meath for each of the past ten years. [4460/25]
- 2025-02-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach for an update on the legislative programme. [7685/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education the number of children within the education system on a waiting list for vital therapies. [7725/25]
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education the number of vacant teaching posts that exist within the primary school system and in the Gaelscoil sector. [7724/25]
Environment 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications given that there is an all-Ireland energy market, if there has been any discussion between Derry City and Strabane Council, or the Department of Infrastructure in the north of Ireland and the ESB or his Department in this jurisdiction on the demand on electricity by the proposed four new data centres in the Derry area; if there is any north south consultation in relation to the addition of significant demand on electricity supply. [8024/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT collected on building materials and construction services in each of the past ten years. [8084/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 13 February 2025, the estimated market value of the 67 vacant properties owned by the OPW. [7805/25]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2025-02-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a meeting can be arranged between this Deputy and the AI Advisory Council; why no mechanism exists for opposition Deputies to engage with the Advisory Council; if he will furnish contact details for the Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8096/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passports that have been revoked for each of the past ten years. [8655/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-02-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the reason drivers cannot recoup VAT on the M50 and Port Tunnel tolls. [8698/25]