Meath West — week of Mon, 31 Mar — Watch Them Work

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 31 Mar – 6 Apr 2025 · 3 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 21 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 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Housing Emergency Measures

2025-04-02 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–72

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

The motion · motion passed 90–72

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-04-01 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle

2025-04-01 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 71–96

Voted for 1 Johnny Guirke

Voted against 1 Aisling Dempsey

Abstained 1 Peadar Tóibín

The motion · motion passed 96–71

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 1 Johnny Guirke

Abstained 1 Peadar Tóibín

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for an update on the plans for the proposed new visitor centre development at Trim Castle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16279/25]

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Transport 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Transport the current position on the decision of the CIÉ executive board in 2009 not to grant further increases to CIÉ pensioners, in the absence of a Statutory Instrument, bearing in mind that this decision did not have the signature of the Minister for Transport and it would appear that there was no input from his Department at that time or since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15040/25]

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 6 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Taoiseach 5 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will next meet. [9293/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with social affairs and public services last met. [7688/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [9294/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on office furnishings, fittings and technology in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [9296/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US president. [12128/25]
Public Expenditure 4 questions
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the total overruns in public infrastructural projects in each of the past five years. [15639/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the total number of properties sold by the OPW in each of the past ten years; and the cost of each, in tabular form. [15633/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of properties owned by the OPW which are currently vacant. [15634/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will detail the cost of all State rental contracts of private property in the past year. [15640/25]
Finance 3 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance to detail any modelling figures generated by his Department on the effects of tariff and corporation taxes increases on Irish GDP, tax, jobs and budgetary surplus. [15372/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the amount collected in tax on fuel in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/25]
- 2025-04-03 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance his Department’s economic modelling in relation to the threatened tariff war. [15631/25]
Children 3 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres approved in each Gaeltacht, by year for past five years, and by Gaeltacht area; the number of applicants who have resided, or are residing there; and if the Department has done an assessment on the impact on the unique linguistic and cultural identity of those areas. [15636/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth pursuant to statements by the current Tánaiste that the last hotel in a town or village will not be used to accommodate asylum seekers or refugees, the number of these currently being used for this purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15637/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline Tusla’s separation policy in instances where multiple siblings from a family are in State care in separate foster or residential placements; and specifically, if she will detail what steps it takes to ensure that biological siblings in different placements have access to one another, or access to their birth mother or father at the same time as one another; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15642/25]
Health 3 questions
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who currently remain in hospital but are clinically discharged and for each of the past five years. [15037/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of people who remain in hospital but are clinically discharged for more than two months, five months, nine months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months, 21 months and 24 months. [15038/25]
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 20 February 2025, the number of nurses and doctors that have availed of the policy outlined in the HR circular 001/23, in tabular form; the average time it has taken between an application being received and the payment of the money; the average amount of money that is approved in each case; and the total amount of money paid out under the Circular, in each of the past three years. [15638/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-04-01 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of people employed in the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU for each of the past five years; the number of vacant posts, for each of the past five years; and the average staffing level for each European country’s Permanent Representation office to the EU. [15376/25]