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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I ask the Chair to allow me one final remark.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: In the context of mortgages, is there any hope that Dr. Cassidy can offer young people at this point? Mr. Makhlouf stated that we cannot have reckless borrowing. How do we support them?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Chair and our witnesses.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank Sinn Féin for putting forward the motion. I supported and put my name to the motion on the basis that the idea of dividing people has come across very badly with survivors. In the past week, I have spoken to a number of survivors about the redress scheme. They are disappointed because they all came into this together, told their stories together and bared their souls in public...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I may share time with Deputy Shanahan, who is not yet in the Chamber.

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I am glad the Minister of State is in the House to hear my few humble words on the climate action plan. The first point I want to make is that all plans can be torn asunder by the people reading them. They can nitpick and say this or that is wrong and will not work. The proof of the pudding for any plan is in its implementation. We need this plan and I agree we need to implement it....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of talks with community employment supervisors in relation to their pension entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 555. To ask the Minister for Health when audiology services will be made available at Tuam primary care centre, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56901/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 649. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 2 November 2021, if in each case in which a baby survived the abortion procedure medical assistance or palliative care was given to the baby; if the baby was entitled to or issued with a death certificate and if an inquest was held into their death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57401/21]

Disability Funding Report: Motion (18 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to contribute. I acknowledge the presence of both my colleagues from Galway, the Minister of State, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. When this committee was set up, I volunteered for it for the simple reason that I spent five years representing a constituency and have been experiencing and seeing all through my life the lived experience...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank all our guests for being here and for their presentations. Ms Casserly mentioned that a number of years ago, all of a sudden, as a young woman she was faced with Parkinson's, wondering how she was going to cope with that and tell her family about it and that she also had to give up work, etc. It has been life-changing. I do not wish to be despondent, but what I am hearing is that...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I welcome the Minister back to the Chamber. I congratulate her on the birth of her baby. I welcome the Bill, but it should have been introduced a long time ago. I wish to address some issues in my constituency. I live in a rural constituency and the issues I come across create considerable anguish and expense. People have needed to go to the courts to define something that should be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I was listening to what was said there. The thing that I really want to get on top of is carbon tax. I know that the ESRI factored that into its analysis, but the cost of living is going up. The weekly shopping is going up as are travel costs. How sustainable is that? I know we say that there are international reasons for the fuel costs going up but fuel costs drive up every other cost....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I think Dr. Doorley and Dr. Farrell are confusing two things. They may believe that people living in rural Ireland who cannot access public transport are all on social welfare. Many are working and paying their taxes and will not benefit from an increase in social welfare payments. The people I am talking about are the working people who, through carbon tax, must pay more to go to work to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (16 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite legislation to amend both the Litter Pollution Act 1997 and the Waste Management Act 1996 to provide a lawful basis for local authorities to use CCTV in detecting and prosecuting illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55946/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (16 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Road Safety Authority may be contravening EU employment law by not facilitating contracts of indefinite duration for driving testers by letting those testers leave after 35 months' continuous employment and then hiring new testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Accident Investigations (16 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will initiate an immediate review of the failures identified in a report (details supplied); if he will bring forward proposals to address each failure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) is working to try and agree a code of best practice for the Athlone to Galway and other regional and national greenways with TII and others; his views on whether an essential aspect of the code is the use of voluntary land acquisition agreements as...