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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 42. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will accept all 46,000 applicants to the current tranche of the ACRES scheme; the plans he has to introduce a gap payment to farmers locked out of the ACRES scheme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9693/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 49. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is his intention to increase the payment for the sheep welfare scheme to €30 per ewe, as requested by the farming organisations, due to the poor prices for sheep and the increase in the cost of feedstuffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9691/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed Wool Council; the terms of reference for this council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9695/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase funding to develop water treatment plants for towns and villages; if he will provide funding to allow existing waste water treatment plants in private estates to be taken in charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11923/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will regularise the funding to support Galway County Council to bring their local government fund in line with comparable counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11922/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the review of the Housing Aid for Older People Housing Adaptation Grants and Mobility Aids Grants to reflect the additional costs of the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE has designated the purpose-built Seven Springs Day Centre in Loughrea, County Galway as part of the community nursing unit in Loughrea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12152/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sanctioned funding for the proposal to refurbish an existing building at the Loughrea Health Campus, Loughrea, County Galway; if so, how much funding has been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is his intention to increase the payment for the sheep welfare scheme to €30 per ewe, as requested by the farming organisations due to the poor prices for sheep and the increase in the cost of feedstuffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12084/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I refer to housing and the Croí Cónaithe scheme. That scheme is fantastic and is beginning to take off and bring houses back into use. There are a number of issues around the scheme. First, the rule that a house has to be vacant for two years is causing a problem, especially in cases where people have passed away and the house is being passed to a family member. Some of these...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I wanted to ask them about a number of things. We will start with how we deal with the health services. The witnesses talked about the universal Sláintecare model being the one by which everything will be done in the future and how we will get rid of private hospitals and private healthcare. That will take decades to achieve. We have a situation...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: Will it take emergency legislation like we had for Covid to wake people up? I will give a good example from my community health organisation, CHO, area in the west. We are serving 800,000 people. If people need cancer treatment, they have to travel from Donegal to Galway. That is the reality. We produced a plan where we are going to create a centre of excellence in Galway, which is my...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: If the infrastructure where people can work is in place, people will be attracted to work in the health service. At the moment, as Dr. Goffe says, we have to bring down the waiting lists. Emergency departments in hospitals are overrun, short staffed, and do not have the necessary infrastructure. We need to have infrastructure-led development in our health service. The healthcare workers...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: Do I have a minute to respond?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I agree with Dr. Sweeney that the primary care centres should be the big driver to reduce the reliance on hospitals. We have built 14 primary healthcare centres in the State and yet we did not put an X-ray facility into any of them. The mind boggles. When I asked the question, "Why not?", I was told that it was not part of the brief when they were doing the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I second the proposal.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I came to the meeting with certain questions I wanted to ask but we have floated right across the spectrum of agriculture challenges, road transport and so on. The one issue that comes out of the debate is that the Commission on Taxation and Welfare produced a document that is so high level that it frightens everybody because it mentions everything that can be done. What we do not have is a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: We are not doing this right. It was mentioned that a ship would have to be sunk if the battery of a truck within it went on fire and I was thinking of the last time I went to Holyhead, which was a grand trip. I would not like to have to try to ditch that on the way over if a fire started on it. If that is the reality, that is the reality. The rapeseed oil proposal needs to be developed...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: This energy crisis is impacting everyone. I am fearful of the future. I refer to how we are driving people in every which way to use electricity, be it to heat their homes, using heat pumps, using electric vehicles and other transport. The question is how we are going to manage the supply of this energy in the future. We must plan for an increase in population. I know young couples who...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: Picking up where Deputy Naughten left off, regarding the warmer homes scheme, this is a fantastic one for people in fuel poverty. There is no doubt about it. The problem with it is the timeframe in which an application is processed and a building energy regulation, BER, assessment done. By the time the work gets done on a house, it will probably have taken about 18 months or longer.