Results 81-100 of 120 for going forward speaker:Seán Canney

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: ...educators. What we need to do for them is give them recognition. I spent nearly ten years lecturing in the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT. When you see students come into first year and go out four years later with a degree, you expect that they will get an income that is reasonable and that there is a career path for them, continuing professional development, and that they...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for his time. As a politician who worked in construction for more than 30 years, I have a good idea of how to build a house and how to work in construction. To return to the point about investment in housing, many young people nowadays cannot afford to buy or build a house because the standards and conditions under which people now have to build them have gone beyond...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Participation of People with Disabilities in Political, Cultural, Community and Public Life: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: ...is important in that regard. On the matter of representation in politics, we should take on board the internships referred to by Councillor Cronnelly. We should say that as of today we are going to advocate for this to be put in place on a pilot basis. In regard to people with disabilities who are in politics, we should do a survey to find out how many are within local authorities....

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: ...disappeared. Community policing has been very much scaled back, unnecessarily so. The sight of one or two gardaí walking down the street in a town or village, or out in a patrol car, is long gone. The abandonment of rural Garda barracks over the past ten years was a retrograde step for policing in Ireland. It has left our rural areas devoid of the presence of gardaí, who are...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Seán Canney: ...major challenge as a significant reduction in payment rates will take effect; and — the need to put the post office network on a sustainable operational and financial footing in line with the Cabinet decision in 2017; and calls on the Government to: — introduce an interim solution that will be effective and deliverable from July 2021, to guarantee the current post office...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Younger People in Nursing Homes: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Seán Canney: ..."A society should be judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable ...". That is where we are at today. We are discussing an issue the management of which we should not be proud. How we got here is irrelevant. We are here now. We need to make sure we provide the level of care needed and we get people out of the trap of being in a nursing home simply because there is no other...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Priorities Exiting Covid-19 Pandemic: Discussion (3 Jun 2021)

Seán Canney: To come back on that, I know the houses in Ballymun have been delivered. I am talking about the here and now and going forward. There is inflation in construction. A quotation for the price of materials will only last seven days. The cost of materials is going up exponentially right now for three reasons: a lack of supply of native timber; Brexit; and supply chain issues due to the Covid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessibility in Planning and Delivery of Transport Projects: Discussion (3 Jun 2021)

Seán Canney: ...is required to make sure our fleets of buses, taxis or whatever have disabled access facilities? Ms O'Donnell said that 16% of taxis have been funded to date which suggests there is a long way to go. What type of funding do our guests get through grant aid and how much more do they expect they will need in the future to try to improve facilities? Ms O'Donnell said TII would like to do...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Seán Canney: I compliment Deputy Catherine Connolly and her colleagues on bringing forward the motion. It might have been an ill-judgment of the Minister to leave before some of the contributions were made. I say this with no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, and I acknowledge her presence. The Covid-19 situation and all the restrictions that came into being gave rise to angst...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (27 May 2021)

Seán Canney: In the remaining time I wish to go back to the TAPS issue. I am concerned that if we have a cliff edge scenario, bearing in mind what we have been through, and what the Minister of State described, nursing homes will be in an at-risk situation again. We have to be very careful about that. Given the work the nursing homes have done, we need to support them because they will doing a lot more...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Seán Canney: This Bill is welcomed by everybody. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for bringing it forward with such haste. The Bill is long overdue. I wish to mention the previous Minister of State, Jim Daly, who worked on the Bill. He probably got some of the legal wrangles sorted out for the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and I want to acknowledge his work. It is important that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: ...I have written down a few key words but one thing that is becoming abundantly clear and is most important is the fact that we need an implementation programme for everything we talk about. I will go back to what Mr. Dolan said about the role of the Taoiseach's office in all this. We have enough reviews, committees, working groups and all these types of gatherings. A huge amount of...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2021)

Seán Canney: ...support for this Bill. Once a claim is notified to an insurance company, the company against which the claim has been lodged sees its insurance negatively impacted with the cost of its premia going up. That is a consequence for the company. For the person who may have instigated a fraudulent claim, there are no consequences. That is not right. This Bill is about fraudulent claims....

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Seán Canney: ...it is about Moore Street in Dublin, one might wonder why a Deputy from Galway would be concerned about it, but it signals what we need to do with many of our buildings around this country that have gone into dereliction because we do not have the means or the courage to maintain them and bring them back into use. It is important Moore Street is blended into a modern Ireland. We must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Nothing About Us Without Us - Achieving Equal Rights and Equity for Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Seán Canney: ...as people who are living with disabilities, their experience is more important than any report I would get from anybody else. What I have heard this morning is just the tip of the iceberg. I look forward to engaging with the witnesses again, whether at the committee or aside from the committee, and I may contact them. Given all the questions that were asked, we could do with a full week...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Canney: ...investment and I hope it will be opened in the coming weeks. It is a great ray of hope for parents, children, families and staff in Tuam. I compliment everybody involved in the project. I look forward to seeing the school up and running. I had a sneak preview of the layout of the school and it is ideal for education in these Covid times. I look forward to the school opening. In...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Canney: ...has said. The shared equity loan scheme is one of a suite of measures needed to provide houses at affordable prices. There will be risk attached to it and we will need to manage that risk as we go along. The scheme needs to be brought forward in a way that it can calibrated as we go along to make sure we do not cause inflation. I have heard people speak about the problem with...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Seán Canney: ...actually doing. I welcome the motion put down by the Social Democrats. I welcome the fact that the Government is not opposing the motion. However, we need to hear from the Government what it is going to do about the matter. First, is it going to make sure that the term of the commission will be extended? Second, in terms of the records that rightfully belong to these witnesses who...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: ...and a lack of supply of housing for people who want to set up their homes. It is an ideal opportunity but we seem to have excluded the idea of a second-hand purchase being something that is good. Something should be done in regard to properties any town or village, including in my constituency, so that we could bring a family back to town or village to create vibrancy there. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: ...to say we will talk to them all again. It is important that we do that because it is not a case of them just having their day in the sun before the committee, telling us what is wrong and then going away, where it would fizzle out. This is a relationship that is only beginning to develop between us as a committee and our guests, and I look forward to working with them in that regard.