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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce a July education programme for 2021; when details of the programme will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25519/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (18 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 582. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to national schools to construct preschool and after-school facilities on their site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25518/21]

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and I am sharing with my good colleague, Deputy Verona Murphy. I welcome the opportunity to be able to speak on this Bill this evening. We have had a sea change. I was reflecting on what Deputy Bruton was saying, on what has happened in the past two years in education and how the whole system was forced to change because of the pandemic. Our students, teachers,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I raise an issue very pertinent to regional development and housebuilding, which is the forestry industry in the State. At the moment, 1,980 licences awaiting approval by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine from an ecology assessment point of view. At the current rate, it will take two years to clear the backlog, never mind dealing with new applications. The appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports he will put in place to support event caterers who are excluded from the Covid restrictions support scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25258/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services Model and Withdrawal of Occupational Therapies from Schools: Engagement with HSE (13 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I am sorry I am late. I was in the Dáil and am just coming in to join the meeting now. I have been listening to the debate for the past few minutes. I have read Dr. Morgan's opening remarks as well. The biggest issue with disabilities and children is that not every child is the same and the culture of putting children into specific categories does not seem to work because what can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services Model and Withdrawal of Occupational Therapies from Schools: Engagement with HSE (13 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank our guests for their responses. The contribution of Professor MacLachlan was very important in terms of recognising that no system is perfect. What we wish to do is to try to ensure that when we take charge of things, we leave them better than how we found them. What the committee wishes to do is to work with people to make sure we contribute in a positive way. Parents in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (12 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the ESB subcontracting works that are normally carried out by their own employees; his further views on the matter as a policy change by the ESB which is a semi-State body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24834/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to open up the centres for theory tests for car driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24847/21]

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I presume I will get an extra bit of time due to the pause.

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Seán Canney: While the housing crisis seems to have caught the imagination of everybody in a very short time, it has been with us but has been hidden behind Covid-19 for the past year. There is a huge emphasis on new houses, but we have a challenge and a potential within that challenge, in that we have over 2,000 vacant properties in this country. The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland has stated...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Seán Canney: On forestry licences, we talk about housing and everything else but we do not have timber. The price of timber is going up daily and the reason is there is a shortage because there are not enough staff in the Department to deal with the issue. I plead with the Taoiseach for additional resources. We need to deal with this. The sawmills are crying out for raw materials which they cannot get...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (11 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 796. To ask the Minister for Health the reason gynaecologists are not available on site full-time as opposed to being on call in maternity units to deal with emergency issues that may arise, including threatened miscarriage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24143/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (11 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 797. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the practice of having expectant mothers with threatened miscarriage and who have a history of miscarriage having to go to accident and emergency departments rather than having direct access to the maternity unit, which will deal with the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24144/21]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Message to Dáil (11 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I am representing Deputy Naughten. I wish to re-echo the sentiments on the Bill and how former Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh did so much to get the Bill through and give us something to work on. The Regional Group has been very supportive of the Bill. There is one item which we can discuss when it comes back to the Dáil in section 14, amendment No. 22, with which we have an...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Seán Canney: I was lucky enough to get a call to get my vaccination last Monday in the racecourse in Galway and I must say the operation that was being run there was absolutely phenomenal. There were no queues and everybody was vaccinated and out again within 30 minutes. I want to put on the record my appreciation for the work that is being done across the country in all of the vaccination centres. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grocery Industry (6 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will financially support a brand (details supplied) in launching an aggressive campaign to support Irish goods and encourage Irish persons to buy Irish as the economy reopens. [23457/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 200. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a transport scheme to assist older persons get to hospital and back home following treatment in cases in which they are too weak to use public transport and cannot drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 207. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the different versions of vaccines available worldwide; and the way in which travel restrictions will be implemented coming into Ireland for persons that have received a non-EMA approved vaccine. [23455/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Seán Canney: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if persons travelling from the United Arab Emirates will be required to quarantine if their vaccine is not EMA approved. [23454/21]