Dublin Fingal East — week of Mon, 10 Nov

What your Dublin Fingal East TDs did this week

Mon, 10 Nov – 16 Nov 2025 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 15 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2025-11-12 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 80–61

Voted for 1 Darragh O'Brien

Voted against 2 Ann Graves · Duncan Smith

Ann Graves — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Education 4 questions
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has a role in putting a cap on transition year fees in secondary schools to ensure lower income families can afford these fees. [62092/25]
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education and Youth when an SNA is under a temporary and fixed term contract, and is actively looking for a permanent role, the reason they can only be placed on a panel when they have a permanent role. [62110/25]
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has put in place a pathway for those qualified as primary school teachers with a recognised British teaching qualification, who have not completed the two-year induction period in that jurisdiction, to allow them to complete their induction in Ireland. [62112/25]
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has any plans to increase capacity in a school (details supplied) to cater for the growing number of applicants in the area. [62119/25]
Housing 2 questions
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if persons who have already paid and are out of pocket for fire safety defects in apartment blocks will be reimbursed under the retrospective payments scheme. [62039/25]
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has carried out a review of the first home scheme; and if his Department has agreed to raise the price ceiling for Dublin properties. [62081/25]
Health 2 questions
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Health the options available to a person (detail supplied) to have an assessment to get correct medication. [62123/25]
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) is moved to a location as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62124/25]
Climate 1 question
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment in view of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighting the urgency of reducing carbon emissions, accelerating the transition to renewable energy, and strengthening environmental policies, in further noting that Ireland has made progress with the Climate Action Plan, more ambitious measures are needed to meet our legally binding targets under the Climate Act 2021 and the EU Green Deal, the actions the Government has taken support policies that cut carbon emissions, increase funding for renewable energy research and advocate for stricter environmental regulations. [62033/25]
Finance 1 question
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Finance to consider entering discussions with the childcare provider groups and for the issue of VAT and rates to be looked at with regard to be VAT neutral as opposed to being VAT negative (details supplied). [62040/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training and resources which are provided to Tusla to assist staff in identifying and supporting victims of grooming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61996/25]

Darragh O'Brien — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Duncan Smith — Labour Party 1 vote · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Health 2 questions
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if she will clarify Ireland's current position on the key issues of Bolar and Regulatory Data Protection/Market Protection with regard to the European General Pharmaceutical Legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61235/25]
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if the Government maintains its support for the proposed 8 years of Regulatory Data Protection; if the Government considers recent geopolitical developments as a relevant factor in Ireland’s approach to the revision of the package at Council level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61236/25]
Defence 1 question
- 2025-11-12 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to give an update on his Department’s meeting with the developer of the search and rescue service at Weston Airport, to address concerns of the Air Corps in relation to the need to prevent unauthorised penetrations of military airspace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62037/25]
Culture 1 question
- 2025-11-13 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a timeline for his Department'ss approval of the 7% increase for An Post pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62389/25]