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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I refer to green budgeting and how the reporting of its effectiveness will be rolled out. Are there any lessons the Department of Transport or the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications should be picking up from the equality budgeting to see if we can have better and more accurate reporting? We are now putting a lot of money into retrofitting and budgeting for that type...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: In the context of a budgetary oversight mechanism, is the fact that we have an annual budget - we do not have rolling budgets in many cases - hampering the performance of the money that goes into budgets? A Deputy alluded to the fact that it shows how much money was spent on home help. The reality on the ground is that we cannot fulfil the hours needed to be fulfilled. Does the Department...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: Finally, if I have a minute, I wish to go back to the capital plan, for instance, the national development plan. Is there a master plan that shows, over the lifetime of the national development plan, what projects will be at the different stages along the way each year so that we can track progress or lack thereof in these projects within each Department? Let us consider, for instance, the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: Does that capital project tracker flag up delays in projects so that people will know that projects that have been delayed will have to be accelerated to get them completed? How is that monitored? Is it just a reporting mechanism? If a programme sets out what is to be done over ten years, it will be monitored. I have not looked at the tracking system but it probably just shows progress...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Vice Chair for her indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I am not a member of the committee, but I thought it was important that I came down here to offer to my support to the witnesses. I was listening to them on the screen before I came down here; I had been doing something else. If we get anything out of today, we get a sense that there is total frustration. I know this myself on the ground. Mr. Kearney has hit the nail on the head on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a document on her website which states that subjects such as laundry, needlework and cookery are for girls; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this undermines the role of females in society; if she plans to change these rules; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report into the operation of HSE MyOptions produced by a group (details supplied) which details severe inadequacies in the provision of information or counselling by staff on issues aside from accessing abortion; the way that he plans to address these concerns and ensure that MyOptions offers a full range of options to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that medical scientists working for the HSE receive parity of pay and career progression with clinical biochemists; his plans to solve the current impasse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when the nine neurology nurses specialists needed in University Hospital Galway will be recruited; if his attention has been drawn to patients that are unnecessarily waiting longer for diagnosis and treatment as a result of this shortfall in the western regional centre for neurology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26016/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I have been listening to what has been said and I have heard a number of words such as "exploring", "reviewing" and "piloting". Mr. Flanagan spoke about the fragmented approach to the delivery of employment services for people with disabilities. As a public representative, if I was approached by people with disabilities about finding work, which I have been, I would not know where to steer...

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I wish to say a few words about this in the short time that I have. In my mind, just transition has been explained by Deputy Leddin and others as doing something in society that is correct and right to make sure that our communities grow and that there is enterprise in them. I agree with all of that. We should have more resilient communities but we need to transition to that and we cannot...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Seán Canney: First, I think we have to stand back from what has been said here. We have to stop blaming politicians and past decisions that were made. The biggest problem we have now is that we are giving money to developers. We should not be giving money to developers. Housing should not be developer-led; it should be development-led. If the €450 million in funding was made available in my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I apologise that I had to leave earlier to go to the Chamber. I am not a member of this committee. What we have been discussing this morning is very much in line with what we have been discussing at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, of which I am a member. We see the same problems happening. One of the issues that comes to mind is the individualisation of supports for people,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will adjust the SEAI grant scheme to allow the technical assessment and the BER assessment to be done by the same specialist to help reduce the cost of preparing the technical assessment for the retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (17 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if apartment dwellers whose building shares a single MPRN but who pay their electricity bills separately can avail of the full €200 energy rebate for domestic energy users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24232/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (17 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the rules for national schools from 1965 are still available on her website; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the rules make reference to labels which are now considered stigmatising and inappropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24693/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department are extending the time for participants whose term has expired by only 12 weeks, that this is contrary to the announcement on the reforms announced earlier in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24131/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 339. To ask the Minister for Health if he will continue and increase funding for services urgently needed to support people with long-Covid who are extremely ill with severe symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23998/22]