Clare — week of Mon, 24 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Clare TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Mar – 30 Mar 2025 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 20 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste

2025-03-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 67–88

Voted for 1 Donna McGettigan

Voted against 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 67–88

Voted for 1 Donna McGettigan

Voted against 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme

2025-03-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 87–71

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

The motion · motion passed 87–70

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality

2025-03-26 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 87–69

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2025

2025-03-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–109

Voted for 1 Donna McGettigan

Voted against 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

The motion · motion passed 110–47

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Cathal Crowe — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 7 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Finance 3 questions
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who cannot get flood protection insurance but whose area has not flooded in their 32 years of ownership, can be provided with flood insurance in order that they can sell their house. [13312/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who cannot get flood protection insurance but whose area has not flooded in many years, can be provided with flood insurance in order that they can purchase a property they have been renting for eight years. [13313/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who cannot get flood protection, but whose area has never flooded, can be provided with flood insurance in order they can sell their apartment. [13315/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Coordination Group in the days before, during and after Storm Éowyn. [6490/25]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider reopening the trading online voucher grant scheme to assist SMEs with the creation of an online presence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14006/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the full range of supports that his Department provides to Ukrainian war refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14459/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify whether or not his Department have acquired, vis-a-vis a leasehold contract or direct purchase, a building in Shannon, County Clare to establish a new accommodation centre for international protection applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14718/25]

New lobbying 2 returns

Endometriosis Association of Ireland · 2 returns Health
- Email Invitation to Annual Conference
- Status of National Framework

Donna McGettigan — Sinn Féin 7 votes · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Health 5 questions
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every area required, to enhance its work supporting the emergency services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13590/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health if dental treatment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13661/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the measures she will enact to ensure both medical card and non-medical card 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 they are not expected to join the new list to begin waiting again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13662/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE psychologists, per county, in the Midwest, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14112/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE dieticians, per county, in the Midwest, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14113/25]
Further and Higher Education 3 questions
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress being made with regard to the current challenges in the apprenticeship system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14864/25]
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to close the funding deficit in the university sector, first identified in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14865/25]
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for the contributory fee; if he will maintain the cut in the fee, as has been set out in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14866/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the vacant property refurbishment grant; if he will make provision for successful applicants who exceed the time limit for the work to be completed through no fault of their own, for example, the bankruptcy of the contracted construction company. [13668/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for clarification on the breeding grant fund, which is funded by his Department and administered by Horse Sport Ireland (HSI), and where the HSI has implemented a new requirement for applicants to provide a complete insurance policy before any funds can be accessed, whether this directive comes from his Department, which oversees the funding allocation (details supplied). [13958/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education the reason a school is not recognised as a DEIS school (details supplied). [14258/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm that the funds for the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund are fully allocated; when funding will be available again since the fund is part of the Project Ireland 2040 programme; if an alternative funding stream will be provided to replace the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12130/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Justice if he will consider increasing the number of hours a non-EEA national on a Stamp 2 is permitted to work from 20 hours to 30 hours per week given the rising cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14643/25]

Joe Cooney — Fine Gael 7 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Timmy Dooley — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Comharchumann Fuinnimh Oileain Arann Teoranta Marine
- Development of Ros a Mhil Harbour