Offaly — week of Mon, 12 May — Watch Them Work

What your Offaly TDs did this week

Mon, 12 May – 18 May 2025 · 3 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 26 questions · 39 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Childcare

2025-05-14 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 83–65

Voted for 2 John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

Voted against 1 Carol Nolan

The motion · motion passed 83–66

Voted for 2 John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

Voted against 1 Carol Nolan

Parental Choice in Education

2025-05-14 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 84–65

Voted for 3 Carol Nolan · John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

The motion · motion passed 87–62

Voted for 3 Carol Nolan · John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

Housing and Critical Infrastructure

2025-05-14 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 82–66

Voted for 2 John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

Voted against 1 Carol Nolan

The motion · motion passed 83–66

Voted for 2 John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

Voted against 1 Carol Nolan

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021

2025-05-14 · 1 vote · People Before Profit-Solidarity PMB

A bill to provide a legal mechanism for trade union recognition for workers who comprise at least 20 per cent of the employees in an employment (or any category within that empl…

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A bill to provide a legal mechanism for trade union recognition for workers who comprise at least 20 per cent of the employees in an employment (or any category within that employment).

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 66–82

Voted for 1 Carol Nolan

Voted against 2 John Clendennen · Tony McCormack

Carol Nolan — Independent 7 votes · 20 questions · 12 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 20 total

Health 7 questions
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if a decision was taken at Department of Health and HSE level, prior to the abortion law changing in 2019, to adopt an approach to pregnancy counselling services, such as including the withholding of public funding from any pregnancy counselling agency not prepared to engage in abortion referral under the new legal regime proposed in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24000/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if the figure of 10,021 payments for completed medical abortions (details supplied) represents the number of payments to general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2023, but not to medical abortions provided in hospitals for women between 9 and 12 weeks' gestation; the number of such hospital medical abortions in 2023; the estimated total number of abortions in 2023, calculated by adding medical abortions in the community setting to medical and surgical abortions in hospitals; to compare this estimate of total abortions with the estimate, based on notifications received of 10,033 abortions in her Department’s annual report for 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24003/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the way in which a reported figure of 10,021 early-pregnancy abortions in 2023 (details supplied) can be reconciled with a figure of 9,876 early-pregnancy abortions in the Department of Health abortion report for the same year, given that the figure of 9,876 includes early-pregnancy abortions in hospitals but the figure of 10,021 does not; the number of early-pregnancy abortions in 2023 that were in the community setting, that is, general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics; the number that were in hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24004/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health her views on whether the current system of reporting abortion numbers based on abortion notifications from general practitioners, family planning clinics and women’s health clinics is seriously inadequate, with a large number of notifications being received late or not at all, and many of those that are received being incomplete; to undertake to change the system in order that the HSE payment for each abortion is delayed until a fully completed notification of that abortion is received by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24005/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if she will include HSE abortion payment data for 2024 in the Department of Health abortion report due to be published end June 2025, specifically the number of payments of €300 to general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2024, and the number of €100 payments to these same providers for post-hospital medical abortion patients who presented initially at nine to 12 weeks' gestation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24006/25]
- 2025-05-14 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to provide the current number of referrals to adult primary care OT service; the number of vacancies within the adult primary care OT service; the number of persons on a waiting list for the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24757/25]
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if she will provide data regarding waiting times for cancer diagnostics, by CHO area, for 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24960/25]
Social 3 questions
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of concerns among childcare sector workers that they must claim jobseeker’s benefit for every school holiday; if there are plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24205/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether her Department monitors the employment status of those who have been granted Irish citizenship in recent years; if so, the number of adults who were granted citizenship from 2020 to date in 2025 currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24327/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of non-nationals who are currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/25]
Environment 2 questions
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide the commissioning date and the annual energy output for the renewable electricity support scheme wind farm projects (details supplied) located in County Offaly, broken down by quarter, for each year since commissioning; the community benefit fund total for each operating year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23456/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide the community benefit fund accounts for the renewable electricity support scheme wind farm projects (details supplied), for each year since commissioning; if he will advise if the community benefit fund accounts will be made publicly available on the SEAI-administered online register, as prescribed by the RESS Good Practice Principles Community Benefit Fund Handbook; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23457/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-05-14 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will assist in securing a placement for a child in a school in County Offaly (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24552/25]
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she could assist in accessing a place for a child with at a primary school ASD unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25001/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list all international treaties to which the State has been a party from 1 January 2020 to date in 2025; to specify which of these treaties, if any, have been the subject of debates or scrutiny in either Dáil Éireann or the Oireachtas committees as to their contents, to which the Minister has contributed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24329/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance to state the arrangements which apply to setting the salary of the CEO of NAMA; whether ministerial approval is required for this salary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24330/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice to outline the current national policy in relation to family reunification for those granted asylum; the degree of familial relationship to which the policy applies; the number of individuals who have come to Ireland following the granting of such applications from 2019 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24326/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-05-14 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the Turn to Teaching Programme in Maynooth will proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24555/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if cars owned or operated by beneficiaries of temporary protection are not exempt from NCT testing and certification; the current position in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25021/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will address the concerns regarding the ongoing closure since November 2024 of the shop at the Clonmacnoise monastic site; if the shop will not be re-opening; if so, if the OPW has plans in place regarding the shop at the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24948/25]

New lobbying 12 returns

Irish Rural Link Co-Operative Society Limited Community
- Irish Rural Link Information Day in Buswells Hotel with presentations on Community response to Storm Eowyn and the impact it had on Rural areas
Local Development Companies Network CLG Community
- Oireachtas Members were invited to an event launching a rebrand of the Local Development Companies Network and highlighting the work of the LDCs
Rare Diseases Ireland Health
- Re-launch All Party Group on Rare Diseases. Update on the need for a new National Strategy for Rare Diseases, including background data on rare diseases in Ireland and the challenges that people living with rare diseases face.
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 8 returns EU Affairs · Agriculture
- Mercosur - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
- Nitrates Derogation
- Inclusion of Good Agricultural & Environmental Condition (GAEC-2) in Second Round of CAP Simplification Measures
- Bovine TB
- Mercosur
- Bovine TB - Spring Lobbying 2025
- Nitrates Derogation - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
- GAEC-2 - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
Rockwood Consulting ULC Housing
- Requested to meet to discuss the Seller's Legal Pack Bill and to seek reforms to the conveyancing process

John Clendennen — Fine Gael 7 votes · 0 questions · 14 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 14 returns

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Registration for Short-term legislation Bill (STTL)
Irish Rural Link Co-Operative Society Limited Community
- Irish Rural Link Information Day in Buswells Hotel with presentations on Community response to Storm Eowyn and the impact it had on Rural areas
Local Development Companies Network CLG Community
- Oireachtas Members were invited to an event launching a rebrand of the Local Development Companies Network and highlighting the work of the LDCs
Rare Diseases Ireland Health
- Re-launch All Party Group on Rare Diseases. Update on the need for a new National Strategy for Rare Diseases, including background data on rare diseases in Ireland and the challenges that people living with rare diseases face.
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 10 returns EU Affairs · Agriculture
- Mercosur - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
- Nitrates Derogation
- Inclusion of Good Agricultural & Environmental Condition (GAEC-2) in Second Round of CAP Simplification Measures
- Bovine TB
- IFA Offaly Meeting
- Good Agricultural & Environmental Condition (GAEC) 2
- Mercosur
- Bovine TB - Spring Lobbying 2025
- Nitrates Derogation - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
- GAEC-2 - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025

Tony McCormack — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 6 questions · 13 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Health 2 questions
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Health the reason the midlands region, including County Offaly, has fewer ambulance resources now than it did 25 years ago; if there are plans to review the level of ambulance service provision in the region to ensure timely emergency response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24024/25]
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on staff recruitment and retention efforts within the HSE in the area of special needs services, particularly in relation to physiotherapists and speech and language therapists; the measures being taken to address shortages and ensure continuity of care for children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24023/25]
Justice 2 questions
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Justice for his position on the use of facial recognition technology by An Garda Síochána, particularly in the context of combating serious crime and retail theft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24663/25]
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Justice for his response to the increasing incidence of retail crime, including theft, assaults on retail workers and antisocial behaviour in town centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24662/25]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2025-05-13 Deputy Tony McCormack 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. [22313/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-05-15 Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the Office of Public Works' progress in constructing the new harbour in Cappincur, Tullamore; the planned uses and future development strategies for the harbour once completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16288/25]

New lobbying 13 returns

Irish Rural Link Co-Operative Society Limited Community
- Irish Rural Link Information Day in Buswells Hotel with presentations on Community response to Storm Eowyn and the impact it had on Rural areas
Local Development Companies Network CLG Community
- Oireachtas Members were invited to an event launching a rebrand of the Local Development Companies Network and highlighting the work of the LDCs
Rare Diseases Ireland Health
- Re-launch All Party Group on Rare Diseases. Update on the need for a new National Strategy for Rare Diseases, including background data on rare diseases in Ireland and the challenges that people living with rare diseases face.
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 10 returns Agriculture · EU Affairs
- ACRES - Spring Lobbying 2025
- Mercosur - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
- Nitrates Derogation
- Bovine TB
- Good Agricultural & Environmental Condition (GAEC) 2
- Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) Payments
- Mercosur
- Bovine TB - Spring Lobbying 2025
- Nitrates Derogation - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
- GAEC-2 - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025