Clare — week of Mon, 31 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Clare TDs did this week

Mon, 31 Mar – 6 Apr 2025 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 59 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn

2025-04-02 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–72

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Housing Emergency Measures

2025-04-02 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–72

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

The motion · motion passed 90–72

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-04-01 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 95–72

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle

2025-04-01 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 71–96

Voted for 1 Donna McGettigan

Voted against 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

The motion · motion passed 96–71

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Cathal Crowe — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 21 total

Health 11 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances available, on average, daily in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15279/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times to "PURPLE" calls (life-threatening) in County Clare between 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15280/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times to "RED" calls (potentially life-threatening) in County Clare between 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15281/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health whether the oral immunotherapy drug known as palforzia, used by people who have peanut allergies, has been approved by the HSE for reimbursement; its current status in Irish healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15284/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if Ennis Hospital will no longer accept card or cheque payments from patients; if patients will need to pay via a centralised office on the east coast; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15407/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting at hospitals (details supplied) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15567/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of patients admitted to hospitals (details supplied) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15568/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of patients classed as leave before treatment completed at hospitals (details supplied) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15569/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of leave before treatment completed patients who returned within 30 days of leaving hospital at hospitals (details supplied) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15570/25]
- 2025-04-02 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an overview of the National Ambulance Service’s existing capacity to provide emergency cover to all of County Clare; provide an overview of any plans she and her Department has to improve the National Ambulance Service in County Clare; provide details of National Ambulance Service call-outs in County Clare from 1 January 2024 to 27 March 2025 where response times exceeded HSE targets; if she will investigate fully the circumstances which led to a woman having to wait over three hours for an ambulance to arrive to Doonbeg, County Clare on the morning of 24 march 2025 following a road traffic accident; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15861/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant paediatric neurologists at University Hospital Limerick; the number of whole-time equivalent vacant consultant paediatric neurologist positions at University Hospital Limerick; and when these vacancies will be filled on a permanent basis. [16327/25]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if will report on his recent discussions with the EU Trade Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15336/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if will report on the most recent meeting of the Government Trade Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15335/25]
Finance 2 questions
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an overview of efforts his Department, in conjunction with pillar banks, is making to ensure that rural communities have proper access to banking and ATM machines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15778/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an overview of the work underway in his Department to fulfil the Programme for Government pledge to reduce the VAT rate applicable to food and beverage hospitality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15777/25]
Public Expenditure 2 questions
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide an overview of the responsibilities his Department has with regard to flood protection and arterial drainage works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15971/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide details as to the measures he and his Department are undertaking to progress stalled large-scale public infrastructure projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15972/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [6490/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will intervene to examine the anomaly in the pay and conditions of an acting principal (details supplied). [15401/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice if he will consider bringing in regulations relating to not-for-profit management companies that oversee communal responsibility of apartment blocks in order that there would be a level of oversight as to the activities of the management company, there will be defined dispute mechanisms, and there will be legal compulsion on all property owners to pay their fair share of communal insurance costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15406/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-04-02 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding allocated for social housing acquisitions to each local authority in each year 2020 to 2024 inclusive; and the amount of the allocation spent in each year and the amount unspent/carried over to the following year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16450/25]

Donna McGettigan — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Transport 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Transport the number of flights diverted to Shannon Airport for medical reasons, each year from 2020 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15172/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the National Development Plan Review is scheduled to be completed; to confirm that the towns and cities infrastructure investment fund will be implemented arising from the review; the expected funding allocation for the fund and the timeline for the implementation of the recommendations of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14984/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the visa application made by a person (details supplied) in respect of their wife and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15387/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health to address issues in regard to the national oral health policy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15312/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [15444/25]

Joe Cooney — Fine Gael 6 votes · 31 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 31 total

Health 9 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Ennis primary healthcare centre at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; and the additional staffing and services planned for the facility. [15616/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Kilrush primary healthcare centre in County Clare; and the additional staffing and services planned for the facility. [15617/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of whole-time equivalent positions at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group on 1 March 2024 and on 1 March 2025, by profession, in tabular form (details supplied); if he will provide the number of said personnel employed via agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15618/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to outline plans to extend opening hours of the local injuries unit at Ennis Hospital; to provide details of progress being made on the expansion of the medical assessment unit at Ennis Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15619/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed provision and operation of a contracted satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis Hospital, County Clare; and the reason for the delay in progressing the proposal. [15620/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals reimbursed for their insulin pump training and-or its consumables through the EU Treatment Abroad or Cross Border Healthcare Scheme since 2019. [15621/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that access the Omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE's exceptional hardship scheme or have done so since 2018. [15622/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to provide data for the Model 4 hospitals (Beaumont, St. James's, St. Vincent's, University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick) for the 2024 calendar year, in tabular form; the number of patients presenting at the emergency department (ED); the number of those patients presenting at EDs that were admitted for the year; the number of those leaving before treatment complete (LBTC) for 2024; the number of LBTCs that returned within 30 days; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15623/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, to provide details of the retail impact assessment and SME test carried out as part of her Department’s consideration of the measures being introduced via the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; to provide the research undertaken showing how a reduction in the number of retail outlets selling tobacco products will eliminate the illicit trade in tobacco products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15635/25]
Housing 7 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of any submission or correspondence received by his Department from Limerick City and County Council, Clare County Council and/or the University of Limerick regarding the proposed development of an economic strategic development zone at Gillogue, Clonlara, County Clare; his views on the decision by the University of Limerick and Clare County Council to withdraw a joint planning application for the said development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15587/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received and approved in County Clare under the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme; and the amount of financial assistance provided to applicants from County Clare under the scheme. [15588/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes that have been or that will be built in County Clare from 2020 to 2025 under the local authority affordable purchase scheme, in tabular form; if he will provide a breakdown for each of the four municipal districts of Ennis, Killaloe, Shannon and West Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15589/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline details of new affordable housing schemes being supported by his Department; to provide details of submissions received from Clare County Council for the development of such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15590/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding provided by the Exchequer to Uisce Éireann for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the budget allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15591/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline details of the location, by town name, of all social housing schemes completed for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in County Clare, as well as those currently in planning and under construction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15592/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department has taken to identify zoned, serviced lands owned by local authorities that could be utilised for delivery of social and affordable housing in that local authority; the area of such lands and numbers of housing, by local authority area; and whether those lands are the subject of applications for funding to his Department. [15594/25]
Transport 4 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport the status of the development of the proposed West Clare Railway Greenway between Kilrush to Kilkee (Section 1), Ennis to Ennistymon (Section 2), and Ennistymon to Miltown Malbay and Miltown Malbay to Moyasta (Section 3 and 4); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15583/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will provide financial support to Shannon Airport Group to establish a route to Amsterdam under a Public Service Obligation. [15584/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport to outline the average waiting times for each National Driver Licence Service centre in Ireland on 31 December 2023 and on 31 December 2024, in tabular form; and the measures that have been introduced to increase staffing levels and reduce waiting times across the State. [15585/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport the funding that has been allocated to the national roads in County Clare for the years 2019 to 2024, by road number and by the following categories, ‘Capital Investment – Protection and Renewal’ and ‘Current Maintenance - Protection and Renewal’, in tabular form. [15586/25]
Enterprise 3 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on efforts by his Department, in conjunction with Clare County Council, the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Clare County Council to secure new enterprise for the former Roche site in Clarecastle, County Clare. [15606/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of foreign direct investment (FDI) jobs created in Clare, Galway, north Tipperary and Limerick in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the number of FDI jobs created and lost respectively in Clare, Galway, north Tipperary and Limerick in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15607/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown of IDA Ireland visits to Clare, Galway, north Tipperary and Limerick in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. [15608/25]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the increase in the cost of production of milk products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15566/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide figures relating to overall Irish agri-food exports to the USA and the EU, broken down by food type, during 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [15581/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is committed to undertaking a review of the Forestry Standards Manual given the impact of recent storms on public roads, utilities and powerlines, especially the setback distances from overhead powerlines; and if his Department will consider the introduction of a separate felling licence application system to facilitate urgent management of the setback distances from powerlines. [15582/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Taoiseach the unemployment figures for County Clare for 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; the unemployment figures for all of Ireland for the same dates; the measures his Department is taking to create jobs in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15605/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to reaffirm Ireland’s opposition to the current Mercosur trade deal in accordance with the Programme for Government; to outline the details of engagement with EU partners in opposing the deal since December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15580/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide an overview of minor works, drainage maintenance and large capital projects being carried out under the OPW drainage and flood relief programme for County Clare in 2025. [15610/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown for 2024 of the number of Gardaí, by rank, for each functional area, by county, in the Clare/Tipperary division, in tabular form. [15611/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding provided to each city and county childcare committee in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15609/25]

Timmy Dooley — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Health 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Health since the introduction of the national access policy in 2022, the number of children placed on the waiting list for autism assessment by a primary care team in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14986/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Health the number of children assessed for autism by the primary care team in County Clare since the introduction of the national access policy in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14987/25]