Official portrait of Louis O'Hara

Louis O'Hara

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Sinn Féin · Galway East · serving since 2024-11-29

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Record timeline

Voting record Contributions PQs asked
written 2025-06-17 · to Education
432. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a school's (details supplied) SNA allocation will be reviewed in light of the fact that an increased allocation was recommended by the SENO; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32360/25]
written 2025-06-17 · to Culture
473. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if the next Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund will allow for site purchase and the planning for essential swimming pool infrastructure in towns where a swimming pool does not already exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31873/25]
written 2025-06-17 · to Housing
501. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authority tenants, living in a part V home, can purchase their home under the tenant purchase scheme; if he intends to review this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32023/25]
written 2025-06-12 · to Education
123. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will introduce pension parity for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30983/25]
written 2025-06-12 · to Education
166. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on schools’ SNA allocations for the 2025-26 school year; to outline the process involved in making allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30984/25]
written 2025-06-12 · to Climate
192. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a list of all dispatchable electricity generators currently operating within the single electricity market (SEM) (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31397/25]
written 2025-06-11 · to Transport
51. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Transport the actions he is taking to ensure that there is a full committee overseeing the operation of the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951; the actions he is taking to ensure that there is appropriate governance of the scheme especially through the role of the Interim Pensions Administration Body (IPAB); the correspondences he has had with the CIÉ board on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30850/25]
written 2025-06-11 · to Transport
74. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Transport whether it is an offence for a driver of a motor vehicle to overtake a school bus while it is stopped to board or disembark students; if so, the penalty that is incurred by the driver; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31214/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Climate
107. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the actions his Department is taking to transition our flexible electricity generation portfolio away from fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, to low-carbon alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30221/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Climate
161. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the actions his Department is undertaking to address the energy price increases that Irish households are facing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30220/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Climate
254. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his views on the expansion of data centre electricity demand; his further views on the impact this increase in data-centre demand may have on Ireland’s electricity-generation capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30222/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Transport
319. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Transport the amount that Iarnród Éireann spent on the removal of vegetation on the Western Rail Corridor between Athenry and Claremorris in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29550/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Public Expenditure
433. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will consider providing the OPW with the necessary resources to take ownership of Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, County Galway, to restore to it use as a tourist and heritage site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30413/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Enterprise
460. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of current vacancies, by job title at the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29555/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Enterprise
467. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the grant schemes or supports available for a small-scale enterprise in County Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30147/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Education
555. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of staff members employed to support the school completion programme in Galway in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29561/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Housing
846. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the decision not to provide funding to Galway County Council to take ownership of Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30412/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Justice
1014. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of WTE civilian forensic accountants attached to the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29559/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Children
1177. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessment of need liaison officers employed in CHO2 area as of 31 January 2023 and 28 May 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29548/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Children
1178. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of all vacancies for intellectual disability nursing posts within CHO2; and the locations of these vacancies, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29549/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Health
1380. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health the reason evorel patches, which are being dispensed in place of estradot due to an ongoing shortage, are not covered under the new free hormone replacement therapy scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29459/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Health
1381. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medicine alternatives such as evorel are included in the free HRT scheme, especially given the possible long-term unavailability of estradot; if her Department or the HSE plans to reassess the coverage of such alternative HRT medication under the free HRT scheme to ensure continuity of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29460/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Health
1412. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant urologists based at Galway University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29552/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Health
1413. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that have contacted the HSE drug and alcohol helpline in and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29553/25]
written 2025-06-10 · to Health
1585. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Health if she will ban the use of hexahydrocannabinol vapes in Ireland; the timeline for the ban; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30333/25]
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