Waterford — week of Mon, 17 Mar

What your Waterford TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Mar – 23 Mar 2025 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 50 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 Mary Butler

Voted against 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Did not vote 1 John Cummins

Conor D McGuinness — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Tourism 4 questions
- 2025-03-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Conor D. McGuinness den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cén amscála atá leagtha síos ag an Roinn chun maoiniú a fhógairt don chéad timthriall seacht mbliana eile de phleananna teanga i ngach limistéar pleanála teanga Gaeltachta i bhfoirm táblaí; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [11231/25]
- 2025-03-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Conor D. McGuinness den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán an mbeidh maoiniú ar fáil chun Oifigigh Pleanála Teanga a fhostú agus pleananna teanga a chur i bhfeidhm agus coistí stiúrtha agus Oifigigh Pleanála Teanga fós ag fanacht le cinneadh faoin gcéad timthriall seacht mbliana eile de phleananna teanga; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [11232/25]
- 2025-03-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Conor D. McGuinness den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cén tacaíochtaí a bheidh i bhfeidhm do mhná/d’fhir tí na Gaeltachta agus fadhbanna ollmhóra anois ag coláistí samhraidh Gaeltachta mná/fir tí a mhealladh chun scoláirí a choimeád; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [11233/25]
- 2025-03-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Conor D. McGuinness den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cén dáta a fhoilseoidh Údarás na Gaeltachta na pleananna atá ullmhaithe aige chun tithíocht a chur ar fáil do mhuintir na Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [11234/25]
Housing 4 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of serviced sites under the ready-to-build scheme that have had applications received for development by each local authority since 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11217/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of serviced sites under the ready-to-build scheme that have had applications approved for development by each local authority since 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11218/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of sites under the ready-to-build scheme currently being developed by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11219/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of serviced sites under the ready-to-build scheme completed by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11220/25]
Rural 2 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he can provide an update on the reviews of both the SSNO and the community and voluntary pillar funding schemes; when the reviews will be completed and finished; what engagement he has had with the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12398/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he can provide an update on the future of the Dormant Accounts Fund; the plans in place to support those projects and programmes currently funded by the dormant accounts when the funding finishes; what discussions he has had on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12399/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-03-19 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can provide an update on the distribution of the Dormant Account Fund in her Department; the plans in place to support those projects and programmes currently funded by the dormant accounts when the funding finishes; if the funding does cease, whether Departmental existing levels of service funding will cover the projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12400/25]

David Cullinane — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 39 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 39 total

Health 37 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health to address a matter reported in a media outlet (details supplied); if this report exists; if this report will be published; if the findings, as reported, are accurate; the steps which have been taken by Children’s Health Ireland on the matter; the steps she has taken on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10874/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of paramedics recruited into the ambulance service from July 2024 to year end 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10897/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of applicants for paramedic posts that are on panels since June 2024 without a job offer. [10898/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of approved headcount and whole-time equivalent posts and new posts allocated to the National Ambulance Service in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [10899/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average time from advertisement to job offer in the National Ambulance Service. [10900/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 3 October 2024, to provide a breakdown of the €16 million additional expenditure allocation announced for the National Ambulance Service; the purpose of the allocation; the details of intended spend by line item, in tabular form; if it was the intention that funding would be allocated for advanced paramedic training as distinct from community specialist paramedic training; if she is satisfied with the fact that there is no provision in the HSE service plan for 2025 for students to commence on the MSc in Specialist Paramedic Practice (Advanced) in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10901/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of staff across each service division of the HSE currently suspended with pay; and the number on administrative leave, by the year the suspension or leave started, in tabular form. [10912/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each January for each year from 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the national average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10913/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the amount paid to each individual firm; and the time period for payments to each firm. [10914/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the spend by each of the section 39 voluntary hospitals on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the amount paid to each individual firm; and the time period for payments to each firm. [10915/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the amount paid to each individual firm; and the time period for payments to each firm. [10916/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the spend by each of the section 39 voluntary hospitals on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the amount paid to each individual firm; and the time period for payments to each firm. [10917/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of days that full capacity protocols have been active for each model 3 and model 4 hospital, each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10918/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10919/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against staff at HSE facilities for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, inclusive, in tabular form. [10920/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of Clinical Status 1 ECHO and Clinical Status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less in a direct tabular comparison for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, nationally and by ambulance region, in tabular form; the average length of such response times, nationally and by region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10921/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number and percentage of incidents responded to by the ambulance service, by clinical status and substatus, for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10922/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the percentage of ambulance crews ready and mobile to receive another call within 20 minutes of patient handover, for each emergency department and for each hospital for each quarter in 2023 and 2024 and each month to date in 2025, tabular form. [10923/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department, Statewide and for each location, in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and the average for all patients and for patients aged 75 or older, in tabular form. [10924/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number and percentage of patients waiting 0-6 hours, 0-9 hours, 9-24 hours, and 24+ hours for admission an emergency department, Statewide and by location, in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number and percentage for all patients and patients aged over 75, in tabular form. [10925/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who left an emergency department without being seen, by hospital, in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10926/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, hospital group and hospital, in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10927/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, at the end of February for the years 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and by age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10936/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of February for the years 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form; and the breakdown by length of wait. [10937/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of people who are receiving less than their full allocation of home support hours at the end of February in the years 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025. [10938/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists by health area and wait timeband for the end of February of each year 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025, inclusive, in tabular form. [10939/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for Jigsaw, by health area and wait timeband, at the end of February for each of the years 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form. [10940/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of adults and children, and separately, the number of special-care patients, adult and children, who are on dental surgery waiting lists at the end of February 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; the breakdown, by waiting timeband and by county; the number on waiting lists for dental surgery under general anaesthesia; and the median waiting time for each. [10946/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the treatment purchase scheme provides coverage for endometriosis treatment; and to provide an annual breakdown of endometriosis treatment provided under the scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2024. [11718/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the current position regarding the vacancy since 5 October 2024 of an ophthalmologist for Tipperary south; the current stage of the recruitment process concerned; the expected timeframe for said post to be filled; the measures put in place in the interim to enable a resumption in services locally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11719/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the current waiting time for epilepsy neurosurgery at a clinical site (details supplied); the number of patients who are currently awaiting epilepsy surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11872/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who have received epilepsy surgery at a hospital (details supplied) in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11873/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the current wait times for appointments at the epilepsy monitoring unit at a hospital (details supplied); the number of patients currently awaiting appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11874/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen at the epilepsy monitoring unit at a hospital (details supplied) in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11875/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progress of the HSE oxygen contract changeover originally due to be completed in November 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12624/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health to provide a current estimate of the number of patients in receipt of oxygen through the public system; if costs related to the provision of oxygen for that population have been accounted for in full in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12625/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to move away from a reimbursement system for oxygen provision to direct payment to oxygen companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12626/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams, by health area and wait timeband, in a direct tabular comparison for the end of February of each year 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025, inclusive; the average length of wait; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10943/25]
- 2025-03-19 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for each quarter of each year 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the number overdue for completion; and the number of estimated PTAs waiting for a complete assessment of need, as reported in the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026: Disability Services for Children and Young People. [10944/25]

John Cummins — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mary Butler — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns