Meath West — week of Mon, 17 Nov — Watch Them Work

What your Meath West TDs did this week

Mon, 17 Nov – 23 Nov 2025 · 3 TDs · 5 bills voted on · 24 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Arts (Recognition of Comedy) (Amendment) Bill 2024

2025-11-19 · 2 votes · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Arts Act 2003 to recognise the art of comedy

A sub-amendment · motion passed 69–83

Voted for 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Aisling Dempsey

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 83–70

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Cost of Motoring

2025-11-19 · 1 vote

The motion · motion failed 70–82

Voted for 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Voted against 1 Aisling Dempsey

Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025

2025-11-19 · 1 vote · Social Democrats PMB

A bill to amend the Constitution

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 86–65

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil

2025-11-18 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 83–67

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Nomination of Member of Government

2025-11-18 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 88–69

Voted for 1 Aisling Dempsey

Voted against 2 Johnny Guirke · Peadar Tóibín

Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil 6 votes · 5 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 5 total

Health 3 questions
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Health to consider including medical reports for driving licence renewal/applications for over 70's in the general medical services scheme, to alleviate financial pressure associated with driver licence costs. [63592/25]
- 2025-11-20 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Health if financial advice can be provided to cancer patients to make them aware of entitlements available to them during and after treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64446/25]
- 2025-11-20 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Health the action can be taken to improve services and supports for cancer patients in Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64445/25]
Housing 1 question
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage for an update on the inclusion of grade 1 homes in the pyrite scheme, as committed to in the Programme for Government. [63263/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider excluding domiciliary care allowance from reckonable income for the national childcare scheme subsidy; and the immediate steps his Department will take to support affected families in the meantime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63736/25]

New lobbying 1 return

Childminding Ireland Children and Youth Affairs
- Calling for an independent review of the working of the new childminding system.

Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Peadar Tóibín — Aontú 6 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Justice 6 questions
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason a person (details supplied), who created an alias to avoid deportation and used it falsely to claim social welfare, has been allowed to remain in Ireland; the number of persons who have broken the law while in the IPAS application system that have been allowed to stay in the State, for each of the past five years; and the number of persons who have broken the law after receiving a deportation order that have been allowed to stay in the State for each of the past five years. [63418/25]
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there are any plans to enter into a contract for an IPAS centre, or any other accommodation centre, at a location (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63431/25]
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has undertaken any study or analysis of the child mortality rate in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61895/25]
- 2025-11-19 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons currently accommodated in a facility (details supplied); if the occupants are Ukrainian refugees or applicants for international protection; the plans to develop the property into an IPAS centre; to provide details of the property owner and if the property has changed hands since it first started accommodating refugees in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64149/25]
- 2025-11-19 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has been made aware that 40,000 rounds of ammunition have gone missing from a Police Service of Northern Ireland facility, enough to fully equip 2,352 handguns; given the potential threat to life in the North of Ireland, and indeed in this State, if he will be engaging with the Executive to determine the circumstances of the incident and seek assurances that all the ammunition will be recovered. [64177/25]
- 2025-11-19 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department plans to use a location (details supplied) as accommodation for refugees or applicants for international protection; if so, the date upon which individuals will move to the facility; the number of persons it will accommodate; the public engagement that has taken place on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64248/25]
Transport 4 questions
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the total number of toll bridges in the State; and if he will outline when each was built; and the cost to the State. [63521/25]
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the steps his Department is taking to improve public transport systems in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63520/25]
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the steps his Department is taking to reduce the economic burden being experienced by people who commute long distances to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63790/25]
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the average age of those taking the driving test for each of the past five years; the average age of those failing the driving test for each of the past five years; the gender of those taking the driving test for each of the past five years; the gender of those failing the driving test for each of the past years; the nationality of those taking the driving test for each of the past five years; and the nationality of all those failing the driving test for each of the past five years. [62942/25]
Health 4 questions
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for an operation will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [62861/25]
- 2025-11-19 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when she will respond to urgent correspondence issued to her by this Deputy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64145/25]
- 2025-11-20 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [63788/25]
- 2025-11-20 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and the urgent steps her Department is taking to ensure that patients who need treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund can avail of it, as in the case of a person (details supplied). [63787/25]
Taoiseach 2 questions
- 2025-11-19 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on water quality will next meet. [63511/25]
- 2025-11-19 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island unit. [63512/25]
Culture 2 questions
- 2025-11-20 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the steps he is taking to encourage people who speak the Irish language to progress within the field of arts. [64063/25]
- 2025-11-20 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the engagement he has had with museums in other countries regarding the potential repatriation of Irish artifacts on display in their museums. [64064/25]
Children 1 question
- 2025-11-18 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a response will issue to important correspondence issued to Tusla (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63633/25]