Cork East — week of Mon, 13 Oct

What your Cork East TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Oct – 19 Oct 2025 · 4 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 33 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil

2025-10-15 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 90–56

Voted for 2 James O'Connor · Noel McCarthy

Voted against 1 Pat Buckley

Did not vote 1 Liam Quaide

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

2025-10-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 94–65

Voted for 2 James O'Connor · Noel McCarthy

Voted against 2 Liam Quaide · Pat Buckley

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme

2025-10-15 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 78–63

Voted for 2 James O'Connor · Noel McCarthy

Voted against 2 Liam Quaide · Pat Buckley

The motion · motion passed 79–64

Voted for 2 James O'Connor · Noel McCarthy

Voted against 2 Liam Quaide · Pat Buckley

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-10-14 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 74–58

Voted for 2 James O'Connor · Noel McCarthy

Voted against 2 Liam Quaide · Pat Buckley

James O'Connor — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 5 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Education 2 questions
- 2025-10-15 Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on an extension for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55909/25]
- 2025-10-15 Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on an extension of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55910/25]
Health 2 questions
- 2025-10-15 Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Health for an update on a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55907/25]
- 2025-10-15 Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Health for an update on a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55908/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-10-16 Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht his Department’s plans for the publishing of the next round of the community centre fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56036/25]

Liam Quaide — Social Democrats 4 votes · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Transport 4 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport if the €44 million announced in July 2013 for the Kilkenny ring road extension was ever formally included in his Department’s capital allocations, multi-annual road plans, or the Transport Infrastructure Ireland investment framework; if not, the basis on which the 2013 funding announcement was made; if he will provide all Departmental correspondence and briefing material related to that announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54855/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland or his Department were consulted or informed prior to the public announcement in July 2013 of €44 million for the Kilkenny Ring Road; if either body confirmed the availability of that funding at the time; if the announcement represented an approved Government decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54856/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport the reason no formal Departmental engagement or appraisal of the Kilkenny Northern Ring Road extension occurred between the 2014 An Bord Pleanála approval and Kilkenny County Council’s submission of a preliminary appraisal form in December 2019; the administrative or political decisions that resulted in the project being effectively reset six years later; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54857/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport to provide a full chronology of Departmental, Government, and TII decisions or correspondence relating to the Kilkenny Northern Ring Road extension project between 2013 and 2019, including any minutes of meetings, internal memos or Cabinet submissions relevant to the July 2013 funding announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54858/25]
Education 4 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a list of the five special schools at primary and post-primary level who have suspended and/or expelled the highest number of pupils in each of the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [54574/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of staff that have left a school (details supplied) in each of the years 2023, 2024 and to date 2025; and the wait-times for the replacement of those staff. [54575/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of suspensions and expulsions in special schools in the Cork area in each of the years 2023, 2024 and in 2025 to date. [55419/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of suspensions and expulsions in special schools in the Waterford area in each of the years 2023, 2024 and in 2025 to date. [55420/25]
Rural 4 questions
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if additional funding will be provided in Budget 2026 under the Tidy Town grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56044/25]
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on plans to expand the provision of free-to-use wireless internet connectivity in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56046/25]
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the actions taken under Embracing Ireland’s Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56047/25]
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if additional funding will be provided in Budget 2026 for the local improvement scheme in order to improve non-public rural roads and local laneways in rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56045/25]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the schemes available to farmers to improve the quality of hedgerows and to enable hedgerows to better support biodiversity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54984/25]
Defence 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 7 October 2025, the number of patrols by both Naval Service assets and Air Corps maritime patrol aircraft, by month, since February 2022, in tabular form. [55131/25]
Culture 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will provide an update on a successor to the pilot basic income for the arts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54891/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to alter the criteria for carer's allowance for twins, which currently pays at one and half rate, to allowing a carer to receive full rate carer’s allowance for each individual twin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54576/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the details of the works undertaken at the site of the former Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, since construction barriers were erected on 6 August 2025; and the timeline for the completion of the new build facility at that location. [54736/25]

Noel McCarthy — Fine Gael 5 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Agriculture 2 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken by his Department to encourage farm safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55024/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targeted funding measures being considered by his Department to support the tillage sector; his engagement to date with the sector on such measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55036/25]
Rural 2 questions
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the supports made available by his Department to address rural vacancy and dereliction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55943/25]
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the measures being taken by his Department to support rural town and village communities to establish community centres or hubs where no land is currently available to build such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55942/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Finance the current situation with respect to the eight-year deemed disposal rule; if any consideration was given to the abolition of this rule in the context of Budget 2026; his plans for the reform of this rule as recommended in the Funds Review Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55115/25]
Justice 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of applicants who entered the Garda Síochána Foundation Training Programme in Templemore for each of the past ten programmes; the respective number who completed each of these training programmes; the number of these who were sworn in as Gardaí for each intake; and the number currently still serving in respect of each class, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54847/25]
Public Expenditure 1 question
- 2025-10-15 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an update on plans by his Department to increase the upper funding threshold for flood prevention works under the OPW's minor works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56032/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the measures being taken by his Department to ensure ease of access to third level education for those with a disability and that the number of new entrants to higher education with a disability continues to increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56004/25]

Pat Buckley — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Education 1 question
- 2025-10-15 Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the school transport system will be reformed so that by 2026, all children are eligible for school transport, as universal access will ensure equity in education, reduce car dependency, cut emissions, and support Ireland in reaching its climate targets, and guaranteeing every child a safe, reliable, and sustainable means of getting to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55728/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Finance if the purchase of a machine (details supplied), and its ongoing running costs, are covered under the scheme to claim relief on the cost of health expenses. [56118/25]
Health 1 question
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on taxis for patients in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [56398/25]