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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons (details supplied) are eligible for optical benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedge Cutting (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the time for the planting of whitethorn hedging until net planting season due to the current state of groundwater on land and the scarcity of the hedging roots under the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7407/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 520. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to regulate CAMHS and if he agrees that the CAMHS is in need of reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7412/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7623/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I call Deputy Ó Murchú, on a brief supplementary.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: We will take a supplementary question. My apologies, Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I am giving the Deputy bonus time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister. We will go back to Question No. 7 from Deputy Connolly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has tested wild deer in the Kilcolgan and Kinvara area of County Galway for TB over the past five years; if so, the results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7391/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has tested badgers in the Kilcolgan and Kinvara areas of County Galway for TB over the past five years; if so, the results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7392/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the officials for their opening statements. Many small businesses more or less looked at the support scheme and found they could not be eligible for it no matter what they did. To return to the framing of the scheme, it was done in a way, it seemed, that was trying to keep people out rather than get them in. It has left a bad taste and also left businesses trying to recover from an...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: With the pressure now on small businesses - and we are hearing this all the time - what type of research has been or is being done by the Department, perhaps with Revenue, to assess the state of SMEs at the moment? When you look at the returns for SMEs for 2022 or what their estimates might be for 2023, does the Department see a drop, more insolvencies and people going out of business? I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: Do the witnesses think we have come to a stage where we need to put supports in place for the SMEs as a matter of urgency based on what we are being told on the ground and what is being told to us by the representative groups for these organisations? Is there research being done by the Department that tells it that this is not correct? What is it doing to try to find out - perhaps with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I will make one other quick point. Governments take great publicity from the increase in the minimum wage but that has a serious effect on small businesses trying to find the money to pay this increase in wages. For instance, with the PRSI contribution that has to be made, should the bands be adjusted while the minimum wage goes up, and probably rightly so? As well as paying out the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: Would the Department be advising the Government on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I know that. This is where I do not want to hear that somebody else looks after something.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: There is no comfort for SMEs to say that the Department of Social Protection looks after the issue. It all comes into the Exchequer. This is why we, the Regional Group, today proposed in the Dáil that a task force be set up so that all the Departments will knit together to see how they can legitimately help small businesses in a tangible way, rather than have schemes that are not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the broadband connection point at Mountbellow mart will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6475/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce legislation to allow Irish people living abroad the right to vote in elections and referenda in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6101/24]