Carlow-Kilkenny — week of Mon, 22 Sept — Watch Them Work

What your Carlow-Kilkenny TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Sept – 28 Sept 2025 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 27 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Special Education School Places

2025-09-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 72–61

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

The motion · motion passed 76–63

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

Energy Costs

2025-09-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 76–63

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

The motion · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

Child Poverty and Homelessness

2025-09-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

The motion · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-09-23 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 82–65

Voted for 3 Catherine Callaghan · Jennifer Murnane O'Connor · Peter 'Chap' Cleere

Voted against 1 Natasha Newsome Drennan

Did not vote 1 John McGuinness

Catherine Callaghan — Fine Gael 7 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Children 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to allocate funding in the upcoming Budget for a community neurorehabilitation team for the south east, in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the nationwide roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams. [50355/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason construction works of the new school building at a school (details supplied) is currently paused; when she expects construction to restart; when she expects the project to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50821/25]

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Social 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people for whom an applicant can seek carer's support; and if a maximum carer's grant allowance applies. [49585/25]

John McGuinness — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Health 5 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will confirm the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied); if speech and language therapy for down syndrome children is funded directly by her Department; if she will allocate funding to DSI on a national or regional basis to allow the organisation to source and pay for the cost of services required for individual down syndrome children; if the funding will be increased for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49978/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a progress report and timeline on the delivery of a new primary care centre at a location (details supplied) which was listed as a priority project in the capital programme two years ago; if the preferred option as expressed by the GPs concerned for the primary care centre to be delivered on a new site at the location is the option being developed by the HSE; if other options are being examined; if she will outline these and provide the rationale for each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50033/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [50036/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 31 January 2025, if she will review the question asked and the response issued by the National Ambulance Service dated 19 January 2024; if a request submitted by a patient’s GP for an ambulance service to transport a seriously ill patient to appointments in a Dublin hospital will be approved as a matter of urgency(details supplied); if she will outline the process by which such urgent requests are dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50997/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she has been advised of the HSE/ University Hospital Waterford proposal to discontinue coronial post mortem's at University Hospital Waterford with effect from the 01 January 2026, which if implemented will result in there being no coronial post mortem service in the south east; if the unilateral decision taken by the HSE/University Hospital Waterford will be reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51013/25]
Transport 3 questions
- 2025-09-24 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport if he will set aside €10 million in each of the next four Budgets to go towards the northern extension of the Kilkenny ring road (details supplied); if his Department officials will work proactively with the council to progress the project to completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50739/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the approval by TII of the funding for all of the proposed interim works required on the N24/25; and the details of the communications between his Department, the TII and Kilkenny County Council on the project. [50740/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport the progress on the extension of the existing bus routes in Kilkenny city to include new housing estates, businesses and schools located in the environs of the city; and the availability of funding for such projects and the process and timeline involved. [50741/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department examined the contributions made by a person (details supplied) when they applied unsuccessfully for a pension. [49833/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review a claim and medical reports for a person (details supplied) with a view to approving the application, given the person has been in receipt of supplementary welfare allowance for a long period of time and two GPs continue to deem the person unfit for work; if a general practitioner appointed by his Department will examine the applicant; and if not, if an oral hearing will be conducted. [50034/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider an application under the CASWS which was uploaded in error to the emergency works portal and accepted; if the application which was submitted within the timeframe albeit to the incorrect portal will be accepted and processed as the work outlined in the application is urgent. [49723/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-09-24 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress of plans for the management of the EU Presidency in 2026; if decisions to host events outside Dublin have been made; if so, the locations agreed or those being considered for such events; and if the regions, insofar as is practical, will be showcased in equal measure to promote tourism and inward investment. [50742/25]
Culture 1 question
- 2025-09-25 Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will consider creating or extending funding streams through Sport Ireland or other sporting organisations to ensure that amateur athletes in equestrian sport can access grants when competing internationally; if he will introduce specific measures to directly support grassroots equestrian sport; if this will be considered in the context of the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51061/25]

Natasha Newsome Drennan — Sinn Féin 7 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Peter 'Chap' Cleere — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Transport 3 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Transport the up-to-date plans to improve public transport links from South Kilkenny into the new public transport hub in Waterford city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49870/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Transport the up-to-date plans in relation to the proposed A90 bus route; when it is expected to be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49871/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Transport under the rural mobility plan Connecting Ireland it is proposed to have a new seven-day service with a minimum of four returns per day fixed times and stops, if this service will serve Kilmacow, County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49872/25]
Social 3 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Social Protection to consider awarding a half carer’s allowance payment to persons who are caring for family members in an almost full-time capacity to provide the care required for a person in between care hours approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50237/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in Kilkenny currently in receipt of the half rate carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50593/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in Kilkenny currently in receipt of the bereaved partner’s (contributory) pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50594/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the proportion of early learning and care and school-age childcare services that have signed up for the fourth year of core funding to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50094/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding she is providing for digital and assistive technology projects for people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50095/25]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if a new south east regional enterprise plan will be published soon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50459/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his plans to simplify the application process for enterprise grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50458/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on the introduction of a Garda vetting card to prevent multiple ongoing applications to various different groups, the timeline for its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50420/25]