Galway West — week of Mon, 6 Oct — Watch Them Work

What your Galway West TDs did this week

Mon, 6 Oct – 12 Oct 2025 · 6 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 27 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 Hildegarde Naughton · John Connolly · Noel Grealish

Voted against 1 Catherine Connolly

Did not vote 2 Mairéad Farrell · Seán Kyne

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax

2025-10-07 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 95–65

Voted for 3 Hildegarde Naughton · John Connolly · Noel Grealish

Voted against 1 Catherine Connolly

Did not vote 2 Mairéad Farrell · Seán Kyne

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 1 Catherine Connolly

Voted against 3 Hildegarde Naughton · John Connolly · Noel Grealish

Did not vote 2 Mairéad Farrell · Seán Kyne

Catherine Connolly — Independent 3 votes · 14 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Justice 11 questions
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people who are in the international protection application process who were directly contacted by email in relation to voluntary return further to the policy announcement made on 29 September 2025 and who are an unaccompanied minor, received a vulnerability assessment, and the number of people from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan who have received such communication. [53969/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applications will cease. [53981/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival in each month, to date in 2025. [53982/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide details of the rough sleeper verification process by which an international protection applicant not offered accommodation would receive an offer of accommodation. [53983/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people who are in the international protection application process who were directly contacted by email in relation to voluntary return further to the policy announcement made on 29 September 2025. [53984/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the international protection child payment will be introduced. [53985/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of return orders issued under section 51A of the International Protection Act 2015 (as amended) in total and individually to the United Kingdom. [53986/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of domestic/gender/sexual-based violent incidents reported to An Garda Síochána in each division of the Dublin Metropolitan Region for the years 2018 to 2024, and the latest figures for 2025. [54002/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the steps he has taken to ensure the collection of data on the number of families and individuals accessing domestic violence refuges nationally. [54001/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 1082 of 10 June 2025, the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival, by month, from May 2025 to-date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54232/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of additional refuge units delivered to-date under the zero tolerance strategy; the locations of same; to provide an update on the delivery of the promised refuge units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54231/25]
Housing 3 questions
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the rural housing guidelines; the timeline for publication of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53905/25]
- 2025-10-08 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage cad é stádas na dtreoirlínte pleanála don Ghaeltacht; cén uair a fhoilseofar na treoirlínte; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [53905/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he has taken to reduce the number families made homeless because of domestic/sexual/gender-based abuse. [53989/25]

Hildegarde Naughton — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

John Connolly — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Social 3 questions
- 2025-10-07 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount disregarded from means assessment under the job seekers allowance scheme and the non-contributory pension scheme from income derived from seaweed harvesting; when this disregard was last adjusted; the change in the consumer price index since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53536/25]
- 2025-10-07 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person whose self-employed income derives wholly from seaweed harvesting is eligible to receive farm assist; if such persons are made aware of this entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53541/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) with the social welfare appeals office; the reason for the long delay in deciding said appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54056/25]
Housing 2 questions
- 2025-10-08 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the allocation provided to each local authority in 2024 to complete change of tenancy works on local authority social housing stock, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53176/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify the methodology through which local authorities are funded to support the purchase of land and meet the development costs of providing affordable housing schemes within their administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53177/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-10-08 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if any courses run by an institution (details supplied) are approved courses under the student fee scheme for specified undergraduate courses as set out in Section 7 of the Student Support Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54055/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-10-09 Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for the up-to-date waiting times for applications for visiting visas from South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38295/25]

Mairéad Farrell — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Housing 3 questions
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the housing schemes in Ros a Mhíl and Eanach Mheáin currently owned by an organisation (details supplied); if funding will be given from his Department to ensure that these homes will be used for social and affordable housing for the Gaeltacht community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53457/25]
- 2025-10-08 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the increasing number of older persons who are falling into homelessness, particularly in Galway; the way in which he will support older persons in accessing secure and affordable housing given that the number of persons reaching pension age in precarious housing situations will only continue to rise with the unaffordability of home ownership; if measures will be given in Budget 2026 to address this aspect of the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53458/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to advise if social housing rents, including HAP differential rents, are based on a household's gross or net income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54311/25]
Justice 2 questions
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average response times to 999 calls; the number of 999 calls which have gone unanswered to date in 2025; the steps his Department is taking to ensure that every 999 call is responded to in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53534/25]
- 2025-10-09 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on the roll-out of local community safety partnerships (LCSPs); the reason that there has been no Joint Policing Committee or LCSP in Galway city for the past 18 months; when this will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53535/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-10-07 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the current wait times for a mental health crisis appointment across Galway city and county; the number of patients in each area of Galway currently awaiting a mental health crisis appointment, by wait time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53664/25]

Noel Grealish — Independent 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Seán Kyne — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.