Kildare South — week of Mon, 29 Sept — Watch Them Work

What your Kildare South TDs did this week

Mon, 29 Sept – 5 Oct 2025 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 23 questions · 7 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Industrial Relations (Boycott of Joint Labour Committees) Bill 2025

2025-10-01 · 1 vote · Labour Party PMB

A bill to amend the provisions relating to the constitution of joint labour committees, so as to provide for cases where organisations of employers or of workers fail or refuse …

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A bill to amend the provisions relating to the constitution of joint labour committees, so as to provide for cases where organisations of employers or of workers fail or refuse to engage in consultation with the Labour Court prior to the appointment of representative (employers) members or representative (workers) members, as the case may be; and to provide for connected matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 61–81

Voted for 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Voted against 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

Insurance Costs

2025-10-01 · 1 vote

The motion · motion failed 60–82

Voted for 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Voted against 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-09-30 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 75–61

Voted for 2 Martin Heydon · Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Voted against 2 Mark Wall · Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Did not vote 1 Fiona O'Loughlin

Fiona O'Loughlin — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mark Wall — Labour Party 3 votes · 18 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 18 total

Education 4 questions
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth the up-to-date position with the provision of a new school building in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51740/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth the up-to-date position with the provision of a new school building in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51751/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she can provide an update on a request for a remote area grant for a child in County Kildare (details supplied), given that there are no seats available and no other bus routes available locally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52060/25]
- 2025-10-01 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she or the NCSE are currently carrying out a review of SNA allocations; the reason for the review; and the timeframes involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52294/25]
Housing 4 questions
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the up-to-date position with a housing project in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51745/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the up-to-date position with a housing project in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51746/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when an infrastructural project (details supplied) will open in Kildare south; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51748/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses purchased and in the process of completing purchase under the tenant-in-situ scheme, by local authority, over the past three years, by quantity, by total cost, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51749/25]
Social 4 questions
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he or his Department are developing a payment for those self-employed who cannot work over a short-term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51744/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he or his Department are considering changing the gross means test of a non-contributory State pension to a means test based on an applicant's net income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51747/25]
- 2025-10-01 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that persons in receipt of a widow/widower’s pension and under 70 are not entitled to free travel for a companion, while their counterparts entitled to free travel who have a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant can travel for free with them; if he will consider extending free travel for companions to these widow’s/widower’s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52276/25]
- 2025-10-01 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of the new bereaved partners contributory pension can also claim an illness benefit, or any other social welfare payment, given the new payment is a contributory one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52295/25]
Health 4 questions
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health her plans to allow those with a medical card for long-term illness to receive free blood tests from their GP's; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51741/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health if she will consider a scheme to subsidise the cost of a prostate check for those in receipt of a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51742/25]
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health the status of the project to provide a new hospital at St Vincent's Athy, Country Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51743/25]
- 2025-10-01 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health if she plans to put the 'no wait' card issued by patient organisations on a legal standing (details supplied). [52293/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider removing the means test as a qualifying criteria for blind welfare allowance, in recognition of the additional financial burden experienced by persons who are blind or vision impaired; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51931/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he intends to advertise another round of community centre investment fund grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51750/25]

Martin Heydon — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 7 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 7 returns

The Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) Ltd · 4 returns Agriculture · Trade
- Submission fro FCI to put a National Contingency Plan in place to allow Slurry Spreading
- Submission fro FCI to put a National Contingency Plan in place to allow Slurry Spreading
- Request for Meeting and Proposal: Inclusion of Operational Machinery Drivers on Critical Skills List
- Request for Meeting and Proposal: Inclusion of Operational Machinery Drivers on Critical Skills List
County Kildare Chamber · 3 returns Economic Development and Industry
- Chamber Presidents Lunch Speech
- Policy Advisory Council Meeting Q3 2025
- Chamber Dail Dinner 2025

Seán Ó Fearghaíl — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Health 2 questions
- 2025-10-02 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health her plans to provide additional supports for GP practices in rural areas and areas of increased need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52378/25]
- 2025-10-02 Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the way in which she is expanding GP access to community diagnostics schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52379/25]

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Foreign 1 question
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his immediate plans to protect Irish citizens on a non-violent mission to bring aid to Gaza, given recent Israeli attacks on the flotilla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52114/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-09-30 Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Health the proposed start date for the new 92 bed community nursing unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athy, County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51949/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-10-02 Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an elected Member of the Oireachtas (Teachta Dála or Seanadóir) can make representations on behalf of a member of the public to a local authority, regardless of whether they were elected in that council area or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52874/25]