Dublin Mid-West — week of Mon, 6 Oct

What your Dublin Mid-West TDs did this week

Mon, 6 Oct – 12 Oct 2025 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 36 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise

2025-10-07 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 112–46

Voted for 3 Emer Higgins · Paul Nicholas Gogarty · Shane Moynihan

Voted against 2 Eoin Ó Broin · Mark Ward

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax

2025-10-07 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 95–65

Voted for 2 Emer Higgins · Shane Moynihan

Voted against 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Mark Ward · Paul Nicholas Gogarty

Developer Profits Transparency Bill 2023

2025-10-07 · 1 vote · Social Democrats PMB

A bill to introduce a requirement for property developers who are in receipt of State subsidies to publish annual financial statements

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 69–88

Voted for 3 Eoin Ó Broin · Mark Ward · Paul Nicholas Gogarty

Voted against 2 Emer Higgins · Shane Moynihan

Emer Higgins — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 21 total

Housing 15 questions
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of the legislation he intends to bring forward during the current Dáil session. [52965/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the annual expenditure on LIHAF; the total number of homes in each year activated via this measure; the total number of discounted homes delivered each year; and the average value of the discount, in tabular form. [52967/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any of the properties bought by the Housing Agency under the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme have been sold on to approved housing boards and have been converted to cost-rental tenancies. [52968/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the prohibitions that exist preventing local authorities selling Part V, social housing acquisitions and other social homes purchased from the private market under the tenant purchase scheme; and to list each prohibition and provide a summary of its rationale. [53057/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the strategic review of the approved housing body sector. [53703/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on when the scheduled five-year review of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority will commence. [53704/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the County And City Management Association review of Section 10 funding; when the review was published; the main recommendations of the review; which of these have been accepted by his Department; and to publish a copy of the review on his Department website. [53808/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions he intends to take in the coming months to halt the relentless rise in adult and child homelessness and to reduce the number of people presenting as homeless and accelerate the number of exits of persons currently in emergency accommodation. [54228/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the reform of the Multi-Units Development Act 2011, and related regulations of the property service management agents sector. [53749/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish legislation on the multi-unit development defects redress scheme. [53748/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review the targets for and operation of the affordable purchase scheme. [53750/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will meet with the Lough Neagh stakeholders group to discuss the current ecological crisis impacting on the lake, and by extension to the sections of the wider river basin management area that fall within the counties under his jurisdiction. [53751/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the proposed change to the exempted development regulations. [53747/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, in tabular form. [54052/25]
Health 4 questions
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether primary care psychology services in an area (details supplied) were closed in March 2025 due to no psychologists being in post; if the service remains closed for this reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53972/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of psychologist posts currently filled in a primary care service (details supplied); the number of posts currently vacant; the efforts being undertaken regarding recruitment for vacant psychologist roles; when it is envisaged any vacant posts will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53973/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for primary care psychology services in an area (details supplied); the number of children referred to the service but not placed on the waiting list, and the reason for same, to include the number that were deemed not in need of services by the HSE; and the number of families that did not consent after the referral was made, in tabular form. [53974/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of children that have been removed from the assessment list for the primary care psychology services waitlist in an area (details supplied); as a result of failing to fill out and return a form to the HSE in the specified timeframe, in tabular form. [53975/25]
Transport 2 questions
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider and respond to concerns around the air, sea and rescue helicopter expressed in correspondence (details supplied). [53272/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport regarding search and rescue services in an area (details supplied), if consultation with the local community occurred before the service was moved to the location; what, if any, noise abatement or flight path restrictions are in place for the protection of residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54126/25]

Mark Ward — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Justice 4 questions
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average percentage of bed capacity used in Irish prisons, by male and female, in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53193/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the counties in which the bail supervision service operates; the number of persons which have been able to access the service, by county, for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53537/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the steps he is taking to increase the number of community Gardaí; the number of community Gardaí at the start of 2025; the target number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54119/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the steps he is taking to tackle Garda recruitment and retention including Garda numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54118/25]
Housing 2 questions
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the number of new affordable homes in Dublin for 2025; the proposed number for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53922/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the tenant-in-situ scheme; to outline the differences in the scheme by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53921/25]

Paul Nicholas Gogarty — Independent 3 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Justice 2 questions
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there has been progress in removing the in camera rule in the family courts, subject to protection of identity, in order that media reports can be carried out in the interests of transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54521/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there are plans to review the citizenship process in areas such as length of residency immediately prior to application, criminal records, proficiency in Irish or English; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54522/25]

Shane Moynihan — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Justice 3 questions
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an account of the new Garda districts and sub-districts set up in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53863/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí who have been seconded to national specialist units over the past year, including the size and strength of those units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53865/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the statutory or regulatory changes required to allow Garda members to make contemporaneous notes using AI transcription tools in place of handwritten records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53828/25]
Children 2 questions
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the progress being made in relation to reviewing the 2001 planning guidelines for childcare facilities; if an audit of facilities granted planning permission to date would provide important insights into their effectiveness as part of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53866/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has given further consideration to undertake an audit of early learning and childcare facilities, which have been granted planning permission as part of large scale residential development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53826/25]
Transport 1 question
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Transport when the new driving test centre in Sandyford will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53712/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will examine measures to support the continued availability of rental accommodation to households in receipt of the housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53827/25]