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John McGuinness

Fianna Fáil Carlow-Kilkenny TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024
Leas-Cheann Comhairle

Official Oireachtas profile

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423
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
53,878
words spoken in the chamber
Across 132 contributions. Plus 1,827 contributions from the chair, not counted
107
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
138
topics asked about
Across 20 departments

From the Dáil chamber only: committee meetings are not in this archive.

What they ask about

The subject headings the Oireachtas filed their questions under.

Who they ask

The departments their questions were addressed to.

Month by month

Low months are usually recesses, when the Dáil does not sit. The archive runs to 22 October 2026.

Questions asked 423 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 132 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 1
January 2025 3 0
February 2025 13 4
March 2025 35 7
April 2025 24 6
May 2025 54 7
June 2025 14 3
July 2025 28 6
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 59 0
October 2025 11 4
November 2025 39 21
December 2025 14 9
January 2026 8 6
February 2026 20 8
March 2026 20 3
April 2026 14 2
May 2026 18 15
June 2026 14 19
July 2026 13 7
August 2026 0 0
September 2026 14 2
October 2026 8 2

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 46 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.

Asked about similar topics

Worked out by computer from the subject headings of each TD's questions, giving more weight to headings few TDs use. It shows shared subjects, not shared views.

Party, constituency and offices

  1. constituency Carlow-Kilkenny 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party Fianna Fáil 29 November 2024 to now
  3. office Leas-Cheann Comhairle 19 February 2025 to now
John McGuinness Written 27 Mar 2025 · to Children
361. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be approved for residential care at a facility in Waterford for a person (details supplied); the date when the application for funding was first submitted; and the timeline for a decision. [14840/25]
John McGuinness Written 27 Mar 2025 · to Health
395. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the sale of the old health centre, Tinnahinch, County Carlow, to Carlow County Council; and if the sale will be expedited, as the plan is to provide social housing on the site. [14799/25]
John McGuinness Written 27 Mar 2025 · to Health
405. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if a warfarin monitoring instrument will be provided as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14839/25]
John McGuinness Written 25 Mar 2025 · to Social
484. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved; if the correspondence from his Department to this Deputy will be reviewed given the person has not received any notification from his Department in recent times; and if an oral hearing will be arranged immediately given the original app…
John McGuinness Written 25 Mar 2025 · to Justice
545. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice if the threshold to qualify for legal aid will be reduced; and when this matter was last reviewed. [13408/25]
John McGuinness Written 20 Mar 2025 · to Housing
27. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing projects submitted to his Department by Kilkenny County Council and by Carlow County Council that are currently awaiting approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12880/25]
John McGuinness Written 20 Mar 2025 · to Housing
113. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown, on a local authority basis, of the number of tenant in situ purchases made by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12881/25]
John McGuinness Written 20 Mar 2025 · to Justice
181. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for naturalisationcurrently pursuing their cases in the courts; the legal costs to the State that have been incurred in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12877/25]
John McGuinness Written 20 Mar 2025 · to Justice
195. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for naturalisation that are currently being processed by the citizenship division of his Department; the number of these that have been outstanding for more than eight years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12876/25]
John McGuinness Written 20 Mar 2025 · to Children
398. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the ARP scheme will be extended beyond March 2025. [12972/25]
John McGuinness Written 20 Mar 2025 · to Children
415. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a place will be provided at an ASD unit in Kilkenny city or Jenkinstown or Clara for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; if occupational therapy and speech and language therapy will be arranged for this non-verbal child as a matter of urgency as specified in a report; and if she will expedite a …
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Transport
305. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport if a more suitable time schedule will be provided, based on customer feedback, for the TFI route which services Moneenroe to Carlow and is the subject of many complaints. [11186/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Transport
313. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport the status of the extension to the northern section of the Kilkenny ring road; if he will consider giving approval to Kilkenny County Council to begin the planning of the final section of this road given the full completion of the project has been delayed by planning issues outside the control of Kilkenny County Council; if his officials will meet the counc…
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Finance
418. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services Ombudsman in each of the past five years; if there is a backlog of cases to be dealt with; if so, the number of cases in this backlog; the length of time each has been waiting for a decision; if he will provide details of the delay in processing a complaint submitted by a company (details supplied);…
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Education
551. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education the actions taken by his Department relative to the findings of the O’Keeffe v. Ireland case in 1973 and the ruling of the European Human Rights Court of Justice on the same matter; and his response to the outcomes of both cases. [12605/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Education
730. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education her plans to progress an application to provide suitable accommodation for a school (details supplied); if the building project will be expedited as the demand for school places continues to grow and the current school infrastructure is not fit for purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12334/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Housing
816. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the temporary waiver scheme in respect of development contributions for planning for houses will be continued for the foreseeable future. [12977/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Social
1073. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance in the name of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed immediately and approved. [12602/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Justice
1209. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice if he intends to bring forward legislation to change the legal liability of unincorporated associations. [12623/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Children
1336. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional financial supports available to parents in receipt of a subsidy for each child attending creche when the provider of the service increases the fees; and the financial supports available generally to the sector. [11173/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Health
1596. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if it is her intention to remove the anomaly whereby a first-time application for the fair deal scheme that is refused prevents the applicant from reapplying regardless of the fact their circumstances may have changed; if the application submitted relative to the care of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined and approved; and if she will make a stat…
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Health
1654. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [11445/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Health
1667. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will review the status of homecare for a person (details supplied); and if their weekend homecare hours will be reinstated given the circumstances. [11530/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Health
1724. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the status of the plans to construct a state-of-the-art ambulance base at Kelvin Grove, Carlow. [11799/25]
John McGuinness Written 19 Mar 2025 · to Health
1891. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will introduce regulations to control the flat-rate charges for special services being applied each week by nursing homes to those residents already approved for financial support from the HSE whether they avail of the services or not; if the charges being levied should be considered in the assessment by the HSE of the cost of nursing home care for eac…