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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support an urgent matter (details supplied). [14970/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 643. To ask the Minister for Health the longest time that a child who is classified as urgent, semi-urgent and non-urgent is waiting for an MRI scan in UHG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14783/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inadequate Personal Assistance Supports: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I do not know how I can follow that. It was enlightening to hear Ms Gaynor give us a visualisation of what it is all about. There are a few comments I would like to make. I am concerned about the fact that there is a differentiation between services in rural and urban areas. Coming from a rural constituency, I see it on the ground. People are living in more isolation. They are probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inadequate Personal Assistance Supports: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: When might we see them being flushed out? What are the timelines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inadequate Personal Assistance Supports: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: Does Dr. Carroll wish to comment?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (23 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given approval to a request by a company (details supplied) for pension increases for its pensioners payable from July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14582/23]

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I compliment Deputy Harkin for introducing this very important Private Members' motion. It is important that we discuss carers and the role they play in society. The level of service they give is often free of charge and is often done as a vocation rather than anything else. They do not seek a lot and we should respect the fact that they believe that this is something you do out of duty....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I was listening to the discussion. I will raise two issues. The first point relates to what was said about the upheaval within the banking sector in various parts of the world at the moment and how it might affect the global economy. Do the witnesses envisage any risk to Ireland in terms of our corporation tax take in the next year or two years as a result of anything that might be going...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee to discuss these topics. It is interesting listening to Deputy Healy-Rae. I have one question on the banking sector. We have the potential to develop the credit union network as another force in banking. How supportive is the Central Bank of achieving that, so we end up with a situation where the credit union movement can operate as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: When Mr. Madouros says that they have the capacity, is the issue that they are not lending or that there is not the demand for loans? Are people being prudent in the uncertain markets we have with inflation and so on? People are standing back to see where we are going to level out after all we have been through between Covid and the Ukraine war. Is there a sense that people are pulling...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I will finish on the credit unions. There is the League of Credit Unions but there are also individual entities, wherever they are. In my constituency there is St. Jarlath's Credit Union, which covers Tuam, and there is a large hinterland comprising Athenry, Gort and Galway city. There is also Naomh Breandan Credit Union in Loughrea. They all work as entities on their own. Is that a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I have a question on inflation and the effect that can have on Government expenditure, especially in the capital area where we have the national development plan and many projects that we are hoping to do over the next ten years. We might not get the same bang for our buck as we did two years ago with the inflation that has happened. In the next two to three years do the witnesses see...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: There is much food for thought there. There is a lot of nuance here and many challenges for us. I thank the witnesses for their openness and hopefully we will engage with them again.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will introduce a pension scheme for An Post workers employed since 1984 when An Post was changed to a semi-State company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12737/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that landlords whose property is located within a rent pressure zone and where the rent was historically low cannot now raise the rent to match other rented properties in the area and are being penalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12874/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [13539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether counting gross income instead of net income in fuel allowance means assessment is fair, given that net income is a fairer representation of the actual weekly income of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13700/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the exclusion of women born before 1 September 1946 from the total contributions approach to contributory pension, which allows for up to 20 years home caring periods, represents discrimination on the grounds of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the exclusion of people not in receipt of a social protection payment from the sale of residence disregard, particularly in circumstances in which the treatment of this disregard has resulted in a large overpayment arising against the estate of a deceased person is unfair; and if she will make a...