Mayo — week of Mon, 13 Oct — Watch Them Work

What your Mayo TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Oct – 19 Oct 2025 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 21 questions · 2 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 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

2025-10-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 94–65

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme

2025-10-15 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 78–63

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

The motion · motion passed 79–64

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-10-14 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 3 Alan Dillon · Dara Calleary · Keira Keogh

Voted against 2 Paul Lawless · Rose Conway-Walsh

Alan Dillon — Fine Gael 5 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Dara Calleary — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Crosscare Food
- Yvonne Fleming emailed Minister Dara Calleary asking to meet about future funding for Crosscares food poverty case work service.

Keira Keogh — Fine Gael 5 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Housing 2 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the options or supports available to a person (details supplied) to financially assist with purchasing a property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54852/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a person may combine the croí cónaithe (towns) scheme and the help-to-buy scheme to purchase a property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54853/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Finance if a brand-new modular home qualifies for the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54850/25]
Social 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person who has paid class D contributions rather than class A contributions for the entirety of their career, and now has limited access to supports such as illness benefit/illness pension, in view of the fact that they have been medically signed off as unfit to return to their job in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54669/25]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on discussions regarding the alignment of the Youthreach calendar year with the second level calendar year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55414/25]
Education 1 question
- 2025-10-15 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Education and Youth when she expects the NSCE to begin the process of distributing SNAs among schools following an allocation of 1,717 additional SNAs under Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55641/25]
Rural 1 question
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if there are plans to move panic alarms administered by Pobal under the seniors alert scheme from copper phone lines to more robust broadband lines and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55509/25]

Paul Lawless — Aontú 5 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Health 4 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for next hiring EMT's (details supplied) in Mayo, Sligo and Galway University Hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54768/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health the number of acute inpatient beds allocated to Mayo University Hospital in each year from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form, to include any changes in bed capacity over the period; and to specify whether the hospital's acute bed capacity has increased, decreased or remained static year on year. [54947/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive confirmation of their place on the list for a kidney transplant in Beaumont Hospital. [55129/25]
- 2025-10-15 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Health if she will reconsider the decision to introduce a €5 weekly charge per patient for blister pack preparation from January 2026, in light of the impact this will have on elderly patients, many of whom rely on blister packs to safely manage complex medication routines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55679/25]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to support struggling farmers in the tillage sector. [55103/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the bovine tuberculosis programme. [55104/25]
- 2025-10-15 Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans to introduce grant aid support under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme for the replacement of farm building roofs, as announced earlier in 2025, will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55626/25]

Rose Conway-Walsh — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [50477/25]
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [50478/25]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when the recommendation from Universities Ireland, which was agreed by individual universities, to drop the requirement for four A-levels from students for a more equitable points conversion system was announced and made public to schools and the student population in the North of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55765/25]
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on the work his Department has taken to advance the provision of purpose-built student accommodation at third-level institutions around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53895/25]
Rural 2 questions
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht when the delayed national hub network strategy is expected to be published; the reason for the delays to its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55767/25]
- 2025-10-16 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht for an update on the proposal submitted to Roinn na Gaeltachta (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55766/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-10-14 Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the measures his Department is taking to address homelessness among the over 65s and to prevent people retiring into homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55086/25]