Waterford — week of Mon, 23 Jun — Watch Them Work

What your Waterford TDs did this week

Mon, 23 Jun – 29 Jun 2025 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 64 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages

2025-06-25 · 4 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 64–82

Voted for 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Voted against 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–104

Voted for 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Voted against 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 67–83

Voted for 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Voted against 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

The motion · motion passed 104–48

Voted for 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

Voted against 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022

2025-06-25 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to require pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment suppliers and their servants or agents, to declare payments, gifts, donations or other transfers of values provided…

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A bill to require pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment suppliers and their servants or agents, to declare payments, gifts, donations or other transfers of values provided to healthcare professionals or health care organisations on an annual basis.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 85–67

Voted for 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

Voted against 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery

2025-06-25 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 82–69

Voted for 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

Voted against 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

The motion · motion passed 83–69

Voted for 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

Voted against 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-06-24 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 87–66

Voted for 2 John Cummins · Mary Butler

Voted against 2 Conor D McGuinness · David Cullinane

Conor D McGuinness — Sinn Féin 8 votes · 44 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 44 total

Agriculture 10 questions
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horse passports issued annually, by passport issuing organisation; and by year since 2008, in tabular form. [34655/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average waiting time for passport issuance by Horse Sport Ireland, by county, by year for the past 10 years, in tabular form. [34656/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for horse passports currently outstanding, by passport issuing organisations, to provide a breakdown, by county, in tabular form. [34657/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm the number of horse passports issued over the past 10 years that have included a "Do Not Enter Food Chain" stamp, by reason, county and year. [34658/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual number of complaints received regarding horse passport delays, errors or irregularities, by county, and by year since 2010. [34659/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm whether a centralised national microchip and passport database for equines exists; and if not, whether there are plans to establish one. [34660/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the Department's strategy for supporting the wider equine sector, particularly small-scale breeders and leisure horse owners. [34661/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the level of State investment in the horse sport and leisure industry, in each of the past 10 years, broken down by programme and county. [34662/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline by which he expects ministerial functions to be delegated to the Minister of State for Fisheries and the Marine, if he will account for the delay of almost five months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34663/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned about the closure of smaller scale abattoirs and the difficulties now facing small producers and organic producers in processing their animals (details supplied); to highlight any solutions or supports that might be available to these small-scale producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34718/25]
Education 7 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the date on which she was informed of the shortfall in additional SNAs promised for September 2025 as in the case of a school (details supplied); the reason for the delays in responses from the NCSE to schools. [33517/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has considered the risks that could be posed to the integrity of the State examinations by allowing students to work on their additional assessment components outside of the supervised school environment with access to third parties and artificial intelligence; and the steps her Department is planning to take to counter such risks. [34341/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 17 June 2025, to examine the response from the school (details supplied) to her reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34524/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the project to deliver two modular units for St. John’s Special School in Dungarvan; to confirm precisely when her Department’s modular accommodation unit was tasked with progressing the project; if she will commit to ensuring the units are in place by September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34844/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total funding allocated to schools in each county, by funding scheme, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [34845/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps she is taking to ensure fairness and parity for school secretaries and caretakers; if she will engage with their trade union (details supplied) to seek a resolution to the long-standing issues affecting these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34846/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has undertaken a cost analysis of providing school secretaries and caretakers with public sector pay and conditions; if so, to detail the estimated cost; whether she considers that the social cost of not granting pay parity is greater in the long term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34847/25]
Health 7 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the selection criteria applied to choose the team tasked with the systemic review (details supplied); if there was an open call or advertisement for the review team, and if so, the number of expressions of interest and/or applications that were received. [34272/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she has been appraised of plans by the National Gender Service to ensure access to HRT for students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34273/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the current structure, staffing, and clinical leadership of the National Gender Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34274/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will intervene to assist a child (details supplied) in accessing an expedited appointment for a vital and time-sensitive health service. [34482/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all approved mental health centres currently registered with the Mental Health Commission; to indicate for each whether it is designated as an acute facility; the number of in-patient psychiatric beds available at each centre; and the number of instances in which a child was admitted to an adult psychiatric unit at each location, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [34843/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will implement a plan to support individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including the development of specialist multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring enhanced and immediate access to givinostat and similar treatments. [34818/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure social work qualifications from universities in EU member states are recognised by CORU; and if she is concerned that uncertainty is impacting on recruitment of qualified entrants to the profession. [32423/25]
Children 7 questions
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for services provided by children’s disability network teams, by CHO area and by CDNT, at the end of each year from 2015 to 2024 and at the end of May 2025; the average length of time children have been waiting for services in each of those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34821/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the approved full staffing complement, in WTEs, for each children’s disability network team, by staff role, for example, occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, psychologist, physiotherapist, social worker, team coordinator, and so on; the actual staffing level, in WTEs, in each CDNT at the end of May 2025, by role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34822/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies, in WTEs, for each children’s disability network team, by staff role, for example, occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, psychologist, physiotherapist, social worker, team coordinator, and so on; the duration to date of each vacancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34823/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions she is taking to reduce waiting times for services provided by children’s disability network teams and to ensure that all CDNTs are fully and properly staffed; if she is concerned about the current level of unmet need; at what threshold or volume of children waiting she would consider the situation to constitute a crisis; the specific plans she is putting in place to address the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34824/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting for services from children’s disability network teams, by length of time waiting, i.e., under 1 month; 1–3 months; 3–6 months; 6–12 months; 12–18 months; and over 18 months, with a full breakdown for each CDNT and for each CHO area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34825/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will commit to funding a community neuro-rehabilitation team for the southeast in Budget 2026, in line with the commitment in the current Programme for Government to complete the nationwide rollout of community neuro-rehabilitation teams (details supplied). [35047/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) with severe and complex needs will receive the occupational therapy and speech and language therapy interventions they urgently require; the reason for the ongoing delay in service provision despite repeated contact from the child’s school to the relevant CDNT since November 2024; whether she considers the delay to be unacceptable; and if her Department will intervene directly to ensure the child receives the supports they need without further delay. [35107/25]
Transport 3 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport if he will support a simplified mechanism in which Ireland will recognise and allow an exchange of US driving licences for an Irish licence (details supplied). [33829/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport the total amount of funding his Department or agencies under its aegis have provided to each local authority in each of the past five years and to date in 2025; the total spend in respect of this funding by each local authority in each of those years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34247/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware of concerns within local authorities regarding the provision of capital funding for bus stops without providing administrative, engineering or human resources to develop projects under the scheme. [34248/25]
Culture 3 questions
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide the list of museums, universities and archives in Britain contacted by the advisory committee on the restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage in An Chomhairle Oidhreachta, requesting the return of archived material taken from Ireland, since its establishment in 2023. [34590/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport in light of current funding arrangements ending this year, if he will commit to a strategic investment of €15 million per annum in the post office network over the coming five years, to sustain and strengthen this essential public service in communities across the State. [34827/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he intends to expand, extend and retain the basic income for the arts scheme as a permanent support for artists and their work. [34826/25]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Labour Employer Economic Forum; and when it will next meet. [33549/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [33550/25]
Justice 2 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when an individual (details supplied) who has been waiting eight months since the date of their application for a long stay ‘D’ visa, will receive the outcome of said application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33626/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the length of time the average long stay ‘D’ visa application process takes from the date of application to the notification of final outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33627/25]
Climate 1 question
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether Inland Fisheries Ireland has set a cap on the number of recreational salmon angling licences on the River Blackwater; and if not, whether consideration will be given to introducing one. [34838/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-06-25 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his position on the removal or bypassing of man-made barriers on the River Blackwater, in line with the EU’s objectives for free-flowing rivers under the Water Framework Directive.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34842/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-06-26 Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department could assist in resolving an issue regarding a complex passport application where a four-year-old girl has been waiting for her first passport for two years and has been unable to see her extended family living abroad since her birth (details supplied). [35019/25]

David Cullinane — Sinn Féin 8 votes · 20 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 20 total

Health 20 questions
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number and details of reports, by report type, procured by Children’s Health Ireland from a company (details supplied) in the period 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and the substance or subject area to which the reports relate. [34003/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the spend by each public hospital, including Section 38 organisations where it must be requested, on private ambulances in each of the years 2015 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [34328/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when she expects to receive and to publish the review of urgent and emergency care in the midwest; the resources and WTE staff committed to the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34378/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of incidents referred to An Garda Síochána by the Health Information and Quality Authority relating to nursing homes, by incident type and by registered provider for each year 2015-2025, in tabular form. [34399/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures received by the Health Information and Quality Authority relating to nursing homes for each year 2015-2025; the action taken in each case; the time-lapse between receipt of disclosure and action taken in each case; the number which resulted in a referral to the Gardaí; and the number which resulted in prosecution, in tabular form. [34400/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of compliance notices issued by the Health Information and Quality Authority relating to nursing homes, for each nursing home, for each year 2015-2025, in tabular form. [34401/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of closure notices issued by the Health Information and Quality Authority relating to nursing homes, for each nursing home, for each year 2015-2025, in tabular form. [34402/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of times restrictions were applied on the admission of new residents to nursing homes by the Health Information and Quality Authority, for each nursing home, for each year 2015-2025, in tabular form. [34403/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of prosecutions brought by the Health Information and Quality Authority relating to nursing homes, broken down by the relevant charges being prosecuted and the sections of Acts to which these relate, for each year 2015-2025, in tabular form. [34404/25]
- 2025-06-24 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 527, 528, 529, 530 and 531 of 12 June 2025, if she can confirm that she is not aware of the matters raised in these questions and that the lack of response from her directly can be assumed to mean that her attention was not drawn to the subject matter in question; if this is not the case, the reason why the questions were not answered; and if this is the case, the steps she has taken to rectify the matter. [34440/25]
- 2025-06-25 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 29 February 2024, and given the continuing prevalence of the large, colourful and attention-grabbing tobacco price lists used in shops to highlight certain tobacco products, if she will examine providing for such amendment in the Bill to further regulate nicotine inhaling products, which is currently being drafted; if not, if she will consider amending current regulations in order to assist with enforcement efforts regarding the use in certain retail outlets of these text only, large, colourful and attention-grabbing posters which are used to highlight certain tobacco products for sale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34686/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to ensure that Health Service Executive and National Treatment Purchase Fund spending on insourcing initiatives is transparent and accountable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34742/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to improve governance and accountability at Children's Health Ireland, CHI; if she will publish the unpublished review of a department at CHI at Crumlin; the steps she has taken to address issues highlighted in that report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34743/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health when she will commence sections of the (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 to give effect to retrospective recognition of parentage for children who are already resident in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34748/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the details of workforce preparedness for opening the new children's hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34745/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the resourcing requirements and timeframe for 24/7 urgent and emergency cardiac care at University Hospital Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34746/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to expedite regulation of psychologists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34744/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to increase investment in public nursing homes and improve regulation of the nursing home sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34747/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the status of the strategic review of general practice; the steps concluded thus far; the steps remaining; the timeline for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35073/25]
- 2025-06-26 Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to the report of the expert taskforce to support the expansion of the role of pharmacy, the cost of a common conditions scheme; if her policy on this scheme has changed from her predecessor; if her Department has completed the work referred to in response to Parliamentary Question No. 366 of 10 July 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35074/25]

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Platform for Patients' Organisations, Science and Industry Health
- Implementation of the National Rare Disease Plan

John Cummins — Fine Gael 8 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Mary Butler — Fianna Fáil 8 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns