Dublin Bay South — week of Mon, 31 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Dublin Bay South TDs did this week

Mon, 31 Mar – 6 Apr 2025 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 39 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 2 James Geoghegan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Eoin Hayes · Ivana Bacik

Housing Emergency Measures

2025-04-02 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–72

Voted for 2 James Geoghegan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Eoin Hayes · Ivana Bacik

The motion · motion passed 90–72

Voted for 2 James Geoghegan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Eoin Hayes · Ivana Bacik

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-04-01 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 2 James Geoghegan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Eoin Hayes · Ivana Bacik

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle

2025-04-01 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 71–96

Voted for 2 Eoin Hayes · Ivana Bacik

Voted against 2 James Geoghegan · Jim O'Callaghan

The motion · motion passed 96–71

Voted for 2 James Geoghegan · Jim O'Callaghan

Voted against 2 Eoin Hayes · Ivana Bacik

Eoin Hayes — Social Democrats 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Ivana Bacik — Labour Party 6 votes · 25 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 25 total

Taoiseach 8 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [13742/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the coordination role of his Department in national security. [13743/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will next meet. [9459/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [5755/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [9460/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will next meet. [9458/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Climate Action Plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published by his Department. [15146/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Water Quality will meet next. [15023/25]
Children 5 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has undertaken an impact assessment of varying the accommodation recognition payment; and, if so, the findings of that assessment. [15829/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of individuals who had their reception conditions amended and IPAS accommodation withdrawn in 2024; the number who requested a review of the decision to amend their reception conditions; the outcomes of those reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15001/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of individuals to whom IPAS is currently providing amended reception conditions having withdrawn IPAS accommodation; the number of those who have requested a review of the decision to amend their reception conditions, excluding those who are unaccommodated on arrival; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15002/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will adopt a standard criterion for the diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15021/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has undertaken an impact assessment of varying the accommodation recognition payment in respect of children and young people; and, if so, the findings of that assessment. [15830/25]
Education 4 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education to examine the case of applications for persons related to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15349/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education following a statement issued on 19 March 2025 (details supplied), if she will clarify the timeline and process whereby it is proposed to change a school into a Gaelcholáiste; and if more information will be provided to public representatives, staff and the school community. [15350/25]
- 2025-04-02 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if the former DIT building in Rathmines is owned by her Department or a body under the control of her Department. [16169/25]
- 2025-04-02 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if the former DIT building in Rathmines is owned by his Department or a body under the control of his Department. [16170/25]
Housing 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has requested the transboundary screening for the main mine application, mine waste facility, water abstraction and discharge applications, and the habitats regulations assessment from his Northern Ireland counterpart in respect of the Sperrins mine transboundary consultation; and if not, if he will do so and make it available through his Department or Donegal County Council. [15022/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on delays at the land registry. [15025/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on proposals to amend eligibility for fuel allowance, including by making it identical to that of medical cards; and if he will make a statement on fuel poverty. [15024/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase the €165 threshold in respect of the disability allowance; and the research his Department has carried out in respect of the labour activation potential of revising the threshold upwards. [15833/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport the proportion of the 72,000 applicants on the waiting list for a driving test which are waiting for tests in each testing centre, in tabular form; his plans to establish another NDLS centre in South Dublin; and his views on the adequacy of provision in South Dublin. [15351/25]
Tourism 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media his plans to place the basic income for the arts allowance on a permanent basis; if he will introduce a more expansive basic income for the arts; and if he will make a statement on precarity for artists. [15832/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the rationale for increasing the fees required for student visas from €4,680 to €6,665; if he will provide a detailed account of the publicity from his Department to make relevant persons and the public aware of this upcoming change; his plans to make the public aware of the change before it comes into effect; if his Department has engaged with English language institutions in respect of the change; if his Department has carried out an impact assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15831/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if she has heard reports of a high prevalence of zero hour contracts being used for healthcare assistants at St. Vincent's Hospital Dublin; the number of such persons on such contracts in March 2025, and on the same date in each of the preceding five years; her plans to phase out the use of such contracts across the health service; if she will report on her engagement with the HSE in respect of the use of such contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15132/25]

James Geoghegan — Fine Gael 6 votes · 14 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will meet next. [9827/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach for an update in relation to his attendance at the Munich security conference. [7954/25]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update in relation to the Government’s Trade Forum and the efforts that are underway to preserve Ireland’s two-way relationship in trade between the United States and Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15527/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if artificial intelligence innovation will be a key theme of Ireland’s EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Education the names and locations of schools currently in receipt of the NCSE educational therapy support service, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15649/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Education if she will identify every secondary school in Dublin 2,4,6 and 8 which has Politics and Society on their Leaving Certificate curriculum, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15710/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1056 of 19 March 2025, and the letter provided from the HSE in respect of that question, if any data exists on record in respect of a matter (details supplied); if that data can provided, however incomplete it might be; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15041/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide specific examples of where the HSE has been supported by external providers in accessing international candidate markets to source both occupational therapists and speech and language therapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16495/25]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2025-04-02 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will again be supporting a national organic food fair which took place in Merrion Square in 2024; whether smaller fairs might be supported in other smaller Dublin or urban parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13804/25]
- 2025-04-02 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports the establishment of an Irish food manifesto styled on the Nordic Food Manifesto model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13805/25]
Finance 2 questions
- 2025-04-03 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Finance if he can detail the key impact of the ESRI working paper, The Impact of Deglobalisation and Protectionism on a Small Open Economy - The Case of Ireland, on policy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15839/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Finance if he can provide an update in respect of measures proposed in the report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare relevant to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15838/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-04-03 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans to use AI to support public service reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15840/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-04-03 Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 988 of 19 March 2025, if he can refer the question asked to the State bodies under his Department's aegis for a direct response to this Deputy given all other Ministers did in response to the same question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16452/25]

Jim O'Callaghan — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns