Tipperary North — week of Mon, 7 Apr

What your Tipperary North TDs did this week

Mon, 7 Apr – 13 Apr 2025 · 3 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 48 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

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

2025-04-09 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 65–83

Voted against 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Did not vote 1 Alan Kelly

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025

2025-04-09 · 1 vote

The motion · motion failed 64–83

Voted against 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Did not vote 1 Alan Kelly

Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs

2025-04-09 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 83–65

Voted for 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Did not vote 1 Alan Kelly

The motion · motion passed 83–65

Voted for 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Did not vote 1 Alan Kelly

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-04-08 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 87–70

Voted for 2 Michael Lowry · Ryan O'Meara

Did not vote 1 Alan Kelly

Alan Kelly — Labour Party 0 votes · 35 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 35 total

Transport 5 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of persons currently waiting for driving tests across each test centre in Tipperary, in tabular form. [16611/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport when the new Adare bypass road will be fully open. [16614/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport when the new restored Foynes-to-Limerick rail line will be open. [16615/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider the creation of a new taxi/hackney licence to service rural Ireland. [16616/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of vacancies at each grade of higher executive officer and above currently within his Department; and the estimated timeframe to fill each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [16863/25]
Justice 5 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of posts of detective inspector within the Dublin Metropolitan Region that are currently filled; and the number of these positions at these ranks that are currently vacant, in tabular form. [16866/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 578 of 18 February 2025, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to answer this question. [16867/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he has spoken with the US Secretary of Homeland Security since his appointment as Minister. [16868/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of new roads policing unit motorcycles that came into the fleet in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025; and the number or motorcycles that were withdrawn from the fleet during same period, in tabular form. [16869/25]
- 2025-04-09 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he has concerns regarding the awarding of the contract for the main ICT Infrastructure in the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland to cover licencing of casinos and self-exclusion registers. [17961/25]
Health 5 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of key organ donation personnel in intensive care units. [16873/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the position in respect of the supply and delivery of enhanced influenza vaccines for older persons for the 2025-2026 winter season. [16874/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the date a person (details supplied) will receive their follow up MPFL reconstructive surgery in Waterford University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16914/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when the new bed block will begin construction in Nenagh Hospital. [17112/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when the new primary care centre in Nenagh will be completed; and what services the HSE intends to offer from there in the coming years. [17113/25]
Foreign 3 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans trade missions to the USA in 2025 and any being planned this year; and if so, when and the location. [16613/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of adult and children's passports that were issued in Q1 2025; and if he will provide the corresponding figure for Q1 2024, in tabular form. [16878/25]
- 2025-04-09 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the dates and attendees of all MinMAC meetings in his Department since he took office. [17700/25]
Education 3 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the total funding given to fifty private schools in current and capital funding between 2020-2024, breaking allocations down by current, capital, year and school. [16551/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the average number of busses in the Bus Éireann school fleet for Tipperary specifically in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [16876/25]
- 2025-04-09 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education if the ICT grant will be paid to schools this year; if so, when it will be paid; and when schools, both primary and second level, will be notified. [17964/25]
Housing 3 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated to Tipperary County Council for the tenant-in-situ scheme for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16603/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he last met the CEO of Gas Networks Ireland; and the issues discussed. [16862/25]
- 2025-04-10 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent to date by Uisce Éireann on the water supply project eastern and midlands region. [18238/25]
Public Expenditure 2 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the details of all new Garda stations planned to commence between now and end of 2027, in tabular form. [16870/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the names of companies currently on a framework with the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) to provide office supplies to public bodies; and when each of those companies will contract on the OGP to supply office supplies expire. [16875/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people who are over 65 years of age and in receipt of the half-rate carer’s payment ,and what it would cost to pay this cohort the full carers payment. [16602/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE forensic accountants directly employed by his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [16877/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital budget allocation to her Department in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [16879/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of student placements of physiotherapists that were offered for CDNTs in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [16880/25]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE data analysts employed by IDA Ireland in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [16872/25]
Tourism 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to list all meetings he, his advisers and or his Department’s officials have had with RTÉ since he took office, by date and attendees, in tabular form. [16617/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licences issued, by county and by month, from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2025, in tabular form. [16612/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of vacancies at each grade of higher executive officer and above currently within his Department; and the estimated timeframe to fill each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [16864/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of vacancies at each grade of higher executive officer and above currently within his Department; and the estimated timeframe to fill each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [16865/25]

Michael Lowry — Independent 5 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Education 1 question
- 2025-04-10 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education if she will examine a request from a person (details supplied) regarding the ongoing school transport situation between Templederry, Nenagh, County Tipperary to attend secondary schools in Thurles, County Tipperary [18147/25]

Ryan O'Meara — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Education 5 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Education if she will review Circular 0002/2024 in relation to the distribution of special education teaching hours at primary level, given many schools are concerned that the model used relies heavily on end-of-year test scores for second, fourth and sixth class students, meaning that resources are not being applied with consideration being given to children below second class with additional needs, as they have not yet been tested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17151/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Education if she intends to continue and expand the counselling in primary schools pilot given that schools have not yet been informed whether this programme will continue into the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17152/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Education the reason bus drivers over the age of 70 cannot operate on school bus routes that are contracted to Bus Éireann; if the National Transport Authority has the authority to set policy in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16819/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Education with regard to the Gaeltacht learning period grant for primary ITE programmes, to consider the implementation of a similar grant model for post-primary ITE programmes, as the majority of Gaeilge post-primary student teachers have two compulsory cúrsaí Gaeltachta, each two weeks in duration, as part of their programme, and this is identical to the required placements included in primary ITE programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14382/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Education if she will review the quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; if she will ensure that the recommendation made by a Louth-based SNA to provide additional resources to a school, which has been declined, will be honoured (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17375/25]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on his Department’s work to support beef farmers who rear calves; schemes that will support these farmers, such as the €20 per calf payment that was available in previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16701/25]
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s plans to introduce further actions under ACRES that may encourage further participation amongst farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16702/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with transport will meet next. [6719/25]
Environment 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications which State agency has responsibility for the testing of vehicle fuel quality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16627/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Transport if there is a mandatory retirement age for bus drivers on Local Link routes; if the National Transport Authority has the authority to set policy in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16820/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on her Department’s work to introduce surrogacy leave; if a provision will be made for same-sex couples in the interim; if leave entitlements may be in place for a same-sex couple expecting a child born through surrogacy in August 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16972/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-04-08 Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on her Department’s work to draft the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) (Amendment) Bill, which will address issues relating to citizenship and parentage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16974/25]