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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 897. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients with significantly reduced lung capacity are not receiving early vaccinations given the dangers that Covid-19 poses to their health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21325/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (28 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 917. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that an ad hoc approach is not being taken by different hospitals to allowing partners to access antenatal appointments and attend at births to ensure that women across the country can have clarity on their partners being able to attend maternity appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21397/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 1118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider putting in place a top-up payment on grant schemes to reflect the additional costs that disabled farmers incur in meeting the terms of the schemes in view of the fact that 13% of farmers have a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21193/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 1123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will lift the restrictions and allow farmers selling at marts to attend at the mart for the sale given that many farmers do not have access to proper broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (28 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 1132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the terms and conditions of the TAMS scheme for low emission slurry spreading equipment to allow registered agricultural contractors who do not own a farm to apply for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21345/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Chair and the Minister. This has been an unprecedented 12 to 15 months we have lived through. To say we have given out €13 billion in PUP and wage supports is a statement in itself. The only good thing about that is that money is going to people rather than to corporations or whatever. It is, and will be, in the economy because people will have money and they are paying...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: The properties I am talking about are not houses at the moment. They are derelict structures in towns and villages, and young people are willing to get involved in them and take on the challenge of doing them up and living in those towns and villages. There is no incentive for them to do that, however, and in some cases, services such as sewerage may not be there. This would not add to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: We have all been talking about what has happened in the past year or year and a half. We need to think about the confidence that we have for the future and the potential in the country post Covid to ensure that we get ourselves up and running again. I am sure the Minister knows about this but I want to reiterate it. The European Union has downgraded the Northern and Western Region from...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: This is not something to go to Europe and make a case on. We need to provide the projects and then look for the funding. I imagine the European Union informed the Department of Finance last year that it had reclassified the Northern and Western Region as a region in transition. It has downgraded it in economic terms due to the lack of funding that had been made available per capitaand this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I wish to make one last comment, which is positive. Last week I got three phone calls from business people. One of them who was starting up a new business has invested in property in the region and expects to be up and running with the project in September. It is a good-news story. These are young business people in their 30s. I will be directing them towards Enterprise Ireland which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I agree wholeheartedly.

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Motion [Private Members] (22 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Independent Group for bringing this very topical issue to the floor of the Convention Centre so that we can debate it. It is the first time in a long time that we have had a discussion on an issue so important to Irish farming. We all know farming is under severe pressure in this country, particularly in the west of Ireland and the regions where we have small family farms of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (22 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the delivery targets for housing in Galway County Council for 2019, by build, acquisition, leasing and the actual numbers attained in each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21008/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I think everyone in this country and in the rest of the world agrees that climate action is a requirement. In Ireland, there is a craving for work to be done and to be the best in class. Where I see it going wrong is that we are tripping over ourselves to bring in a Bill to change the situation and in many cases, as we say down the country, we are putting the cart before the horse....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Taoiseach. Nobody is accusing him or the Government of being anti-religious. We fully understand the reasons for these restrictions being put in place but I believe that categorising religion with the opening of museums is a bit off. There is something wrong with that. Religious ceremonies play a vital role in society and so many people in this country have religious beliefs,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I raise one very important issue for many people in Ireland which is public worship. The statutory instrument introduced by the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, in a very clandestine way and without any notice of consultation, has greatly upset the leaders of all the churches, especially following on from the fact that the Taoiseach had only met them two days before...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the immediate reintroduction of click and collect services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18174/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the need for a defined plan for reopening retail business; his views on whether there is a need for a reopening plan as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18175/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rent Increases (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the need for an urgent arbitration plan to address the looming rent crisis for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18176/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the financial supports available to businesses will be extended to enable those businesses that were viable prior to the pandemic to trade effectively once restrictions are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18177/21]