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

What your Mayo TDs did this week

Mon, 3 Mar – 9 Mar 2025 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 21 questions · 3 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 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

The motion · motion passed 87–71

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

Waste in Public Expenditure

2025-03-05 · 3 votes

A sub-amendment · motion failed 56–102

Voted for 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

Voted against 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 90–69

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

The motion · motion passed 90–69

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-03-04 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 1 Rose Conway-Walsh

Did not vote 1 Paul Lawless

Alan Dillon — Fine Gael 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Dara Calleary — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 0 questions · 3 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 3 returns

Irish SME Association Budgetary matters
- Availability of the Power Up grant
Coeliac Society Of Ireland Health
- School Meals Programme
Foróige, National Youth Development Organisation Children and Youth Affairs
- Letter highlighting importance of including a section dedicated to youth work in the Programme for Government

Keira Keogh — Fine Gael 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Paul Lawless — Aontú 5 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Environment 2 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount that has been paid out to companies engaged by the SEAI to conduct feasibility studies for enabling grant funds to be allocated to community groups trying to get renewable energy generation projects off the ground in each year since the enabling grant was introduced. [9095/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide details of all of the weather modification methods, climate engineering or geoengineering, such as adding alkaline chemicals to the ocean, spraying salty mixtures into clouds and reflective particles into the stratosphere, that are taking place in or around Irish air space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10310/25]
Health 2 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an orthopaedic surgery appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9684/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health when a person [details supplied] will receive an appointment in the Urology Department of University Hospital Galway for a TURP procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10265/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education the funding available to a secondary school (details supplied) to apply for developing a community garden on the school grounds and whether her Department will provide funding. [10261/25]

Rose Conway-Walsh — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Tourism 6 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocation for food tourism in each of the years 2011 to 2024, including a breakdown of the costs incurred, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9131/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if a new food and tourism strategy will be introduced; if the Taste the Island initiative, which was discontinued during the Covid-19 pandemic, will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9132/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a detailed breakdown of funding and sponsorship allocated to trade representative organisations by Fáilte Ireland from 2020 to 2024, including the purpose of each allocation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9133/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the details of funding and timelines regarding the commitment on page 22 of the Programme for Government (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9134/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide an update on cross-Border and all-island tourism projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10208/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide an update on the actions he is taking to address labour shortages in the hospitality and tourism sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6600/25]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the new disability unit in his Department. [8192/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [7770/25]
Transport 2 questions
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on connectivity between air, rail and road transport across County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9497/25]
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider adding non-visible conditions such as autism, Parkinson’s disease, dementia and arthritis to the list of conditions of eligibility for a disabled parking permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7768/25]
Health 2 questions
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on supports for people with eating disorders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10214/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on treatment options for people with scoliosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10217/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 25 February 2025, to provide details indicating the length of time the 175 children in Mayo have been waiting for their assessments of need, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10248/25]
- 2025-03-06 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies in County Mayo within children’s disability network teams; the length of time these positions have been vacant; if they are currently being advertised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10249/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-03-04 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Finance the total volume of warehouse taxes currently due; if he will include a sectoral breakdown; the timelines within which businesses are required to make these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9135/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-03-05 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if students attending full-time degree courses in a fully online capacity (details supplied) are eligible for SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10176/25]