Clare — week of Mon, 22 Sept — Watch Them Work

What your Clare TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Sept – 28 Sept 2025 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 41 questions · 4 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 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

The motion · motion passed 76–63

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Energy Costs

2025-09-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 76–63

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

The motion · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Child Poverty and Homelessness

2025-09-24 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

The motion · motion passed 77–63

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-09-23 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 3 Cathal Crowe · Joe Cooney · Timmy Dooley

Voted against 1 Donna McGettigan

Cathal Crowe — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 15 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 15 total

Health 3 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the plans to support frontline healthcare professionals who continue to suffer from long Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50235/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health her views regarding the national ambulance service being under-resourced in terms of the low number of ambulances in its fleet and a lack of paramedics to give full coverage to the County Clare with maximum time efficiency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50568/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the reasons an ambulance required for an infant child (details supplied) in County Clare was delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50569/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the supports she is providing for crèches and early years educators to purchase Irish language learning materials. [50163/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports she is providing crèches in rural areas with lower populations. [50164/25]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will urgently revise the critical skills occupations list that his Department uses to determine applications for critical skills employment permits to reflect the fact that there is a national deficit in skilled construction workers, particularly in the ‘wet trades’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50517/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department and/or agencies under its auspices had any engagement with a company (details supplied) with regard to plans it has recently abandoned to establish a large aircraft maintenance facility at Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50518/25]
Education 2 questions
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will reinstate the special education diploma allowance that was passed at congress (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50545/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will review a request made by a school (details supplied) to have an additional SNA approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50958/25]
Social 2 questions
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will overhaul the modus operandi of community welfare officers in order that they revert to holding assistance clinics in local communities, rather than being centrally based in Department offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50519/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has any metrics for tracking wastage in the hot school meals programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50520/25]
Climate 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he is aware of the long waiting time for BER assessments in County Clare; and the steps his Department is taking to address the same. [50281/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 740 of 22 January 2025, if he will provide an update on plans for the opening of National Parks and Wildlife Service offices in Corofin, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50360/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) can expect to have their delayed forest premia payments made to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50357/25]
Foreign 1 question
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make changes to the passport application system so that apostrophes in surnames along with fadas for Irish names can be recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51010/25]

New lobbying 1 return

National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers Supporting People with Intellectual Disability Budgetary matters
- Oireachtas Disability Group - Pre-Budget 2026 Campaign

Donna McGettigan — Sinn Féin 7 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Further and Higher Education 6 questions
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the purpose built student complexes that are now additionally charging for utilities on top of rent; if he is aware that this is becoming commonplace with a university (details supplied) and other institutes being charged unaffordable service charges as well as rent, putting another financial burden on students and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50665/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware that students will be offered a tiered system as silver, gold and platinum, with each tier reflecting a price increase at accommodation (details supplied); to explain the second phase of the village project that is supported by €67.7 million of taxpayer money, which will, once completed cost students €250,000 per bedroom on university-owned land under the highest tier of this system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50666/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason a tiered accommodation model at a location (details supplied) was not identified as a compliance concern within the State-sponsored accommodation framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50667/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department will provide detailed information on the number of unoccupied purpose-built student complexes currently in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50668/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way in which his Department intends to address the serious situation of unoccupied PBSA buildings and complexes (details supplied) that have become vacant for one year and then becoming repurposed for the private rental market and therefore entitled to charge higher rents as they are not officially purpose built student accommodation anymore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50669/25]
- 2025-09-24 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his Department’s plans to seek advice from the Housing Minister on whether additional service charges and rent hikes at PBSA (details supplied) conflict with the 2% rent pressure zones commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50670/25]
Health 3 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health to urgently review the age restriction on CAR t-cell therapy here, despite it having no such restrictions in other states, to allow a patient (details supplied) to access this potentially lifesaving treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50390/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is over 75 years-of-age is unable to have surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50394/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health if she has met with an organisation (details supplied); her plans to meet with the organisation; her plans to improve diagnostic and treatment services for Sjogren’s sufferers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51054/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on the issue of a person (details supplied) regarding their employment support being cancelled when they changed job; to ensure her supports are maintained seamlessly; to ensure other persons are not affected by this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51053/25]

Joe Cooney — Fine Gael 7 votes · 16 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 16 total

Health 6 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the full-year cost to fund services for specialised pelvic floor physiotherapy following a referral from a general practitioner. [50009/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiologists that are only treating public patients at University Hospital Limerick in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [50010/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of staffing all emergency departments with liaison psychiatrists for two years, in tabular form. [50011/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the full-year costs to fund three extra continence clinics to tackle the waiting list for surgery through specialised small units and enable general access to pelvic physiotherapy when required. [50012/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the rationale behind the recent decision to award a contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider; if there are further plans to privatise non-emergency patient transport in other healthcare regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50013/25]
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health if she will consider including inflammatory bowel disease in the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50014/25]
Social 3 questions
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who were in receipt of living alone allowance and subjected to a review by his Department in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [50015/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Social Protection when he expects to publish the comprehensive review of means test across the social welfare system as committed in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50463/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a costing for increasing the carers allowance by two percent, in line with inflation, ten percent and 20 percent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50462/25]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the engagement he has had with Government colleagues regarding insurance and reducing the cost of insurance for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50461/25]
- 2025-09-25 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if there are statistics relating to the usage of the newly launched National Enterprise Hub; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50460/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport the budget allocated for active travel spending in 2025; and the estimated number of kilometres of new cycling infrastructure that this will deliver in 2025. [50018/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the budget allocation for the local youth club grant scheme in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [50017/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans for reimbursing local authorities for works undertaken in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50019/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of evidential breath testing machines currently available for use in each Garda division as of 8 September 2025, in tabular form. [50016/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-09-23 Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider increasing the number of days for parental leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50008/25]

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Red Cross Community
- Discussed funding of community services with TD

Timmy Dooley — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

Wind Energy Ireland · 2 returns Energy and Natural Resources · Marine
- Offshore Wind Action Plan
- Development of offshore renewable energy