Brendan Griffin
Contact details
Castlemaine Village, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry
- (01) 618 4480
- (066) 979 5666
Committee membership
- Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight (Dáil Éireann)
- Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen
- Committee on Remit Oversight (Dáil Éireann)
- Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform
- Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media
Recent contributions
Wed, 24 Apr 2024
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Thu, 11 Apr 2024
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Recent questions
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
19. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff, including total WTE positions and grade breakdowns, working in the Department's scope section; if the section is adequately staffed to undertake the work required of it in relation to examining bogus self-employment in large organisations such as RTÉ; how long she expects the RTÉ scope investigation to take to conclude; if the scope section plans to examine cases of workers at RTÉ prior to the period currently under examination by the scope section; if the scope section is currently examining or has plans to examine other State or semi-State agencies; if so, which ones; the annual budget for the scope section for each of the past five years; how many prosecutions her Department has initiated as a result of bogus self-employment cases in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18380/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
Employment Rights
28. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection what threshold needs to be cleared for an appeal to be granted by her Department’s appeals office in respect of challenges to decisions by her Department's scope section against employers in relation to findings on bogus self-employment; if applications for appeal are scrutinised, what percentage of appeal applications by employers in respect of scope decisions on bogus self-employment were granted in 2023; the average time such an appeal takes to be heard and decided upon; the number (and percentage) of appeal hearings in 2023 initiated by employers in respect of scope decisions on bogus self-employment, where the appellant subsequently did not present for the hearing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18381/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
Forestry Sector
80. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering the suspension of log imports from Scotland until better safeguards are in place to prevent the spread of the spruce bark beetle to this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/24]
Votes
Sponsored Bills
Ramming of Garda Vehicles Bill 2015
Second Stage
Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Dáil Éireann) Bill 2015
First Stage
Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Dáil Éireann) Bill 2012
First Stage
Membership history
33rd Dáil
Period:
2020 -
Party:
Fine Gael
Constituency:
Kerry
32nd Dáil
Period:
2016 - 2020
Party:
Fine Gael
Constituency:
Kerry
Office:
Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport with special responsibility for Tourism and Sport (2017 - 2020)
31st Dáil
Period:
2011 - 2016
Party:
Fine Gael
Constituency:
Kerry South