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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: I appreciate what the Taoiseach has given me there. It is a history lesson, let us say. What I think can and should be done is to first look at the work the Minister, Deputy Ryan, has carried out in the all-island rail review. The western rail corridor can be reopened without having to go through all the processes on which we spend millions. It does not need a rail order or planning...

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important subject. It is not the first time we have spoken on it in the Regional Group of Independent TDs, of which I am a member with Deputy Verona Murphy. We have been advocating for a non-means-tested carer's allowance support grant for a long time. As a member of the disability matters committee, I have heard first-hand through listening to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that the planned modular accommodation for a school (details supplied) will be delivered and will be operational by late August 2025 and that it will meet the capacity needs of the college; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45417/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of the planned permanent extension to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45418/24]

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: First, I want to speak to the issue of the universal social charge. As many TDs have said, this was a temporary measure that was brought in at a time there was a call on people who were working to try to save this country. We have gone on too long taking this money and need to put a stop to this unworkable charge on people's earnings. It does not bear any resemblance to fairness any more....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: I want to raise the power up grant for small business which was part of budget 2025 for the retail and hospitality sector. Some €170 million was made available with €4,000 per business. I and other members of the Regional Group are finding that certain businesses are unable to avail of this grant for the simple reason that they did not qualify for the increased cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: 563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Multi Annual Rural Water Programme Expert Panel review will be complete; when funding will be available to the group water schemes and local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44329/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: 563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Multi Annual Rural Water Programme Expert Panel review will be complete; when funding will be available to the group water schemes and local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44329/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: 613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way An Bord Pleanála notifies prescribed bodies of planning applications; if files are sent by soft copy or hard copy; the way the notification is recorded; if the process of notifying prescribed bodies has changed in the past; if so, the reason the change was made; if the HSA was a prescribed body for strategic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank our guests for coming in today. From a lay person's point of view, we are talking about economies, budgets and five-year plans but a five-year plan is not worth the paper it is written on in the context of what happened in Ukraine or of Covid, for example. Basically, such plans are for an ideal world, if everything was right. When we have a spike in inflation, all kinds of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: If one considers the surplus taxes that we have coming in now and the fact that some of that is being stored away in the so-called rainy day fund, is that the type of action that a good government should be taking so that we have reserves when we need them? An example of an area about which people are very frustrated is that of house building. Private housing is not being built. That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: What is Mr. Coffey's take on people promising that we are going to build 60,000 houses? How does he see that being done when we cannot even build 30,000 at the moment? That is not a political question. I am asking how the council sees this being done. Will something else have to be sacrificed, for example, retrofitting or something like that? Does Mr. Coffey have any comments on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: The way Mr. Coffey describes some of the difficulties in getting foreign workers or getting our own people who have gone abroad to come back is like a chicken-and-egg situation. We have to provide the houses for them to live in to give them the permanency they need. They would want a guarantee that they would get a house here if they came back.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: This is not a loaded question but it relates to the role of IFAC. Do the witnesses find that nobody listens to what they say when they have concerns about fiscal rules or projections and forecasts that are being made? Are they being listened to by governments? Do they feel that their role is effective? People say the Government is composed of the elected representatives of the people and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I have one last question. I did my leaving certificate in the mid-1970s and for whatever reason, there were no jobs at the time. When I was in the construction industry there was very little work in the early 1980s, then we had the boom and it was followed by the situation in 2008. Should we be doing specific analysis to generate lessons for the future? I include how we performed during...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the guests.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the rules to allow an exemption for landlords in rent pressure zones that have been introduced to vary the 2% increase on the rents they charge where they have not increased the rent for at least two years prior to the zones being introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that children who have transitioned from children's disability services to adult services and are now travelling to St. Joseph’s training centre in Galway city and are living with their families in rural locations in Galway county do not have the bus transport in place, a service they are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 689. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a claim made by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 706. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed staffing complement for the adult mental health service in Tuam primary care service, County Galway; the current staffing levels; the plans for recruitment of additional staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42636/24]