Clare — week of Mon, 3 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Clare TDs did this week

Mon, 3 Mar – 9 Mar 2025 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 37 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Oideachas trí Mheán na Gaeilge: Tairiscint (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]

2025-03-05 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 86–70

Voted for 2 Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Did not vote 1 Cathal Crowe

The motion · motion passed 87–71

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Waste in Public Expenditure

2025-03-05 · 3 votes

A sub-amendment · motion failed 56–102

Voted for 1 Donna McGettigan

Voted against 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 90–69

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

The motion · motion passed 90–69

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-03-04 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 93–66

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Cathal Crowe — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Education 5 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will urgently intervene to support a secondary school (details supplied) in County Clare which has applied to her Department for a grant to replace chronically poor and unusable tools and equipment, relating to the teaching of practical subjects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9372/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will introduce measures in order that degree graduates of early childhood education can register with the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9468/25]
- 2025-03-05 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education the number of Ukrainian pupils enrolled in Irish schools at primary level, and the number enrolled at post-primary level, as of 28 February 2025, or the latest date available, on a county-by-county basis, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10209/25]
- 2025-03-05 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education the allocation of primary school teachers in each county for 2024-25, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10211/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the application before her Department for new autism classes at a school in County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10488/25]
Health 3 questions
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when she expects HIQA to report on its review into access to accident and emergency care in the mid-west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9831/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an overview of planned capital investment in public healthcare facilities in County Clare for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9832/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will intervene to resolve ongoing problems with the delivery of radiation therapy at University Hospital Limerick, which is caused by hardware issues (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10531/25]
Social 3 questions
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the more than 400,000 households that received a €300 fuel allowance lump sum payment in Budget 2025, in tabular form. [10476/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the 213,000 people with disabilities that received a €400 disability support payment in Budget 2025, in tabular form. [10477/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the 46,000 households that received a €400 lump sum working family payment in Budget 2025, in tabular form. [10478/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [6491/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice if he will raise the issue of abandoning daylight savings time as agreed in a European Parliament vote in 2021 at a future meeting of the European Council. [8919/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if, in light of storm Éowyn and the long-term outages faced by people in rural areas, including those reliant on power for medical or work reasons, he will consider making grant funding available to those in rural communities to support the purchasing of power banks or electrical power sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9091/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-03-05 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers who have applied to have their flat rate expenses reinstated in 2025, broken down by category, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9886/25]
Tourism 1 question
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will provide an overview of ways in which his Department supports and promotes tourism activity through Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9830/25]

Donna McGettigan — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current average waiting time for approval for native tree area scheme applications; if they are exempt from planning and that applications are supposed to be approved within six weeks; the measures he will take to ensure the six-week target is met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9777/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the measures she will enact to ensure patients who are aged-out of childhood dental services due to excessive waiting lists maintain their entitlement, that their treatment regime is uninterrupted, that their waiting time is taken into account when they are moved to the adult waiting list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9233/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps that will be taken to address the anomaly created by the new adult educator contract, which has resulted in some educators in further education and training centres being classed as non-teaching staff, to ensure those who do the same job all have similar terms and conditions of employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9214/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-03-05 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Finance the reason PAYE workers entitled to the flat rate expenses previously available on their tax credit certificate now must claim this credit using PAYE Services; the number of taxpayers to date that have applied to have their flat rate expenses reinstated; and if he can provide a breakdown for the numbers in each category. [9872/25]

Joe Cooney — Fine Gael 6 votes · 15 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 15 total

Health 8 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, if she will provide details of the retail impact assessment and small- and medium-sized enterprises test carried out as part of her Department’s consideration of the measures being introduced via the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; if she will provide the research undertaken showing how a reduction in the number of retail outlets selling tobacco products will eliminate the illicit trade in tobacco products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9178/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of persons aged under 18 years-of-age currently on the waiting list for an audiometry test in CHO3. [9183/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the budgetary allocation to CAMHS psychology in CHO3 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [9184/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of x-ray, CT and MRI scanners in situ at University Hospital Limerick; the number of scanners not currently in working order, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10291/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health for an employment report, to include the following categories: medical and dental, nursing and midwifery, health and social care professionals, management and administrative, general support, and patient and client care for the National Ambulance Service Mid-West, for the years 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [10292/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the current status and any progress on the development of a new ambulance base in Kilrush, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10293/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of surgeries cancelled at Ennis Hospital during each month of 2024 and to date in January 2025; and if she will provide a breakdown of the surgical procedures cancelled. [10294/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of GPs per thousand of population, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10295/25]
Education 3 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 250 additional special needs assistant posts. [9181/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education the number of pupils enrolled in junior infants in existing primary schools in County Clare in tabular form for the school years 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10296/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the introduction of a basic cookery skills program at national school level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10297/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE staff, by job title from his Department that are based at Shannon Airport as of 20 February 2025; and if he will provide same figures as of 20 February 2022, in tabular form. [9182/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to provide an occupational therapist service for those with mild intellectual disability in County Clare. [9180/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport the reason there is no obligation on the providers of electric vehicle charging points to advertise the cost per unit of electricity in the same way as fossil fuels are required to advertise the price per litre to customers in advance of their purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10300/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will review the recommendations contained within Circular 05/2015 regarding the day subsistence allowance, and, in light of the nature of the work involved, consider exempting emergency personnel of the National Ambulance Service from the requirement to be further than eight km away from their base over the course of their work to avail of the ten-hour rate of subsistence.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10298/25]

Timmy Dooley — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Education 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Education the current status of planning for a new school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9087/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is such a backlog in dealing with foresters’ native tree area scheme applications in light of their exemption from planning (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9519/25]