Meath West — week of Mon, 24 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 24 Mar – 30 Mar 2025 · 3 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 23 questions · 1 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 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Aisling Dempsey

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 67–88

Voted for 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Aisling Dempsey

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme

2025-03-26 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 87–71

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

The motion · motion passed 87–70

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality

2025-03-26 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 87–69

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

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 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Aisling Dempsey

The motion · motion passed 110–47

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 3 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 3 total

Social 2 questions
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are plans to increase child benefit, even in a targeted way for those on lower incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14122/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are any plans to increase maternity benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14123/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education if she will make provision for school secretaries to access pensions as Government employees. [14124/25]

New lobbying 1 return

Polio Survivors Ireland Social Protection
- PQ to extend cost of disability payment to those on the state pension with disabilities

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 7 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 7 votes · 20 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Health 6 questions
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of children with down syndrome born in Ireland for each of the past ten years. [14219/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of children with down syndrome aborted in Ireland for each of the past five years. [14220/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if prior warning of her visit to University Hospital Limerick was given; and whether trollies and patients were hidden from sight during her visit. [14221/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be accepted on to the CAMHS waiting list for an urgent assessment following his GP referral for suspected ADHD; and when the required therapies, outlined as urgent by his medical practitioners, will begin. [14329/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of sex selective abortion occurring in Ireland (details supplied); and the steps being taken to prevent this happening. [14334/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if not, the reason the law has not been upheld. [14453/25]
Children 6 questions
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have gone missing while under the care of Tusla, in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [14266/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have died while either in the care of the State or while known to child protection services, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025, in tabular form, including cause of death. [14267/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total amount paid by Tusla to the providers of special emergency accommodation, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [14268/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list companies currently providing special emergency arrangements to Tusla; and if confirmation can be provided that all the staff employed by these companies to care for children have been Garda vetted. [14269/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the companies who were previously providing special emergency arrangements to Tusla, but with whom Tusla has since ceased contracting; and if a breakdown can be provided on the reasons why. [14270/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current status of the Child Law Project; if her Department is currently funding the organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14271/25]
Justice 4 questions
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the reason a convicted rapist (details supplied) was allowed into this country; if there is protection in place by the Government to stop a convicted criminal coming into the country; if so, the protections that are in place; if the person was in Ireland on a visa or as an asylum applicant and if he was checked with Eurodac when he came to Ireland. [13391/25]
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons that received a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa for each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of the top 15 countries in each cohort. [13512/25]
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 686, 687 and 688 of 25 February 2025, when a response will issue to this Deputy as promised in his reply of one month ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14275/25]
- 2025-03-27 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of people currently in prison who have previously been in prison for a separate offence. [14729/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform what plans there are for the protection and proper use of the Hill of Tara site. [14233/25]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his contribution to the decisions by the EU to retaliate to the threatened US tariffs; his contribution to the selection of targets for this retaliation with the selection of US bourbon manufacturers putting the Irish whiskey sector in danger of further retaliatory tariffs from the US; and the manner in which he has fed into, contributed or influenced these decisions. [14190/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-03-25 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average annual CAP payments received by farmers in each county. [14194/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-03-26 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has paid for the repair of any vehicles owned by asylum seekers or Ukrainian migrants; and if so, the total amount spent on this expenditure for each of the last five years. [14357/25]