Dublin North-West — week of Mon, 17 Mar

What your Dublin North-West TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Mar – 23 Mar 2025 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-03-19 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 84–69

Voted for 1 Paul McAuliffe

Voted against 1 Rory Hearne

Did not vote 1 Dessie Ellis

Dessie Ellis — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Paul McAuliffe — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Housing 4 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of fossil fuel boilers that were granted funding through the housing aid for older persons grant in 2023 and 2024, per local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11132/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on any discussions his Department has had with Dublin City Council or the Land Development Agency in relation to the Ballymun Shopping Centre site. [12677/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received for the vacant property grant to date in 2025. [12678/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration has been given to exempting community facilities, childcare facilities and social enterprise facilities from paying rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13236/25]
Environment 2 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are any changes to the better energy warmer homes scheme carried out by SEAI following the signing of the European Union (Energy Performance of Buildings) Regulations 2024 (S.I. No. 749/2024) in December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11129/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if fossil fuel boilers can still be installed through the better energy warmer homes schemes based on the recommendation of an assigned contractor following the signing of the European Union (Energy Performance of Buildings) Regulations 2024 (S.I. No. 749/2024) in December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11130/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Transport for a breakdown of the schemes submitted by Dublin City Council to the Greenways and National Roads Active Travel Infrastructure fund for the most recent round of allocations. [11883/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of delays with the construction project for a new purpose-built school (details supplied); the action her Department is taking to ensure that the school will be completed by June 2025; and if she will provide a date by which the school will be completed and available to the school community. [11176/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Social Protection to review the decision not to award the household benefits package to (details supplied). [12363/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase funding for drugs task forces; if this funding will be ringfenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10588/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Justice for an update on his plan to tackle the issue of knife crime. [12675/25]

Rory Hearne — Social Democrats 1 vote · 16 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Housing 8 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list the representatives from his Department who will be attending a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); the contents of the addresses and speeches that representatives from his Department will be making to the conference, including material to be distributed by his Department at the event; to list which events representatives from his Department will be partaking in at the conference; if representatives from his Department will take part in the Ireland Real Estate Investment Pavilion at the conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10602/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has been made aware of issues relating to the provision of emergency replacement mobiles or caravans to Traveller families affected by storm Éowyn; if his Department has engaged with local authorities in areas worst affected by storm Éowyn in this respect; the anticipated timescale for dealing with requests for these replacement mobiles or caravans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11062/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for emergency replacement mobile homes or caravans for Traveller families that have been received from local authorities by his Department in 2025, by local authority, in tabular form; the number of these applications that have been approved, rejected or pending, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11063/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans that are in place for Ireland to sign the Council of Europe FARO Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (2005) (details supplied); if there is a timetable for this; the reason it has not been signed up to this point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12364/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to recent CSO data showing that the number of new homes approved annually fell by over 21% in 2024; his plans to introduce an alternative policy measure to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12895/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to reverse the decision to restrict eligibility and funding for the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12897/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to address the fact more than 88,000 homes are currently vacant, in view of data showing that over 2,000 homes were liable for the vacant property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12898/25]
- 2025-03-20 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to accelerate and scale up the delivery of affordable housing via local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12896/25]
Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme office in respect of addressing one of its six priority areas: child and family homelessness. [6426/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Taoiseach if he has plans to establish a cabinet sub-committee on the delivery of Metrolink. [6425/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Taoiseach if there are plans to appoint a Minister of State for Traveller accommodation within the lifetime of the Thirty-fourth Dáil. [11064/25]
Finance 2 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Finance to list the representatives from his Department who will be attending a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); to outline the contents of the addresses and speeches that representatives from his Department will be making to the conference, including material to be distributed by his Department at the event; to list which events representatives from his Department will be partaking in at the conference; if representatives from his Department will take part in the Ireland Real Estate Investment Pavilion at the conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10603/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Finance to outline the details of the involvement of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) at a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); to outline the contents of the addresses and speeches that representatives from the ISIF will be making to the conference, including material to be distributed by the ISIF at the event; to list which events representatives from the ISIF will be partaking in at the conference; if representatives from the ISIF will take part in the Ireland Real Estate Investment Pavilion at the conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10604/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Education the number of schools in Dublin 11 that expressed an interest in opening a special class in the years 2023-2025; the number of these applications that were refused; the reasons given for any such refusals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12338/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Education the number of schools in Dublin 11 that were contacted by the National Council for Special Education in relation to the opening of a special class; the number of these schools that declined to open a special class; if her Department is aware of the reasons for any of these schools declining the opening of a special class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12339/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding widows pension (details supplied); the alternative supports, if any, available to the person. [10591/25]