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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for their very enlightening opening remarks. I listened to the questions Deputy Ellis put. Members find that at times, there is a huge difficulty for people with disabilities, in that there are no clear pathways as to how they can get the supports they need to live independently. I do not know how this can be dealt with but there is a repeated request for people to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: To clarify something, is there a way of measuring what is going on and how it is evolving? Is there data to back that up or is it just a softer approach than that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: That last contribution was great. It is important that we continue to highlight the social return on investment, and that if money is being invested, people are benefitting from it and the social return is there. I say well done.

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue and I compliment Deputy Cairns and the Social Democrats for introducing this motion. As a Deputy living and based in Tuam, the Tuam mother and baby home has been a focus of attention over a number of years. The discovery of 796 babies buried in a mass grave is something that shocked the world. This watershed moment came...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I was listening to the discussions and presentations from my office before I came here. I was a bit late for the match. This discussion is interesting, as Deputy Boyd Barrett alluded to, and many issues are being talked about that we should be talking about for longer and more effectively. Based on what Professor Kinsella is talking about, we may be letting the green-energy revolution...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: The Christmas bonus is the example one would hold up as a once-off that has become expected. If it did not happen next Christmas or the one after there would be war. We have brought in a huge amount of measures this year that are one-offs. Whether we can afford to keep them is the question. I think of the disability sector where the Indecon report said the additional living costs for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of building control officers who are employed by each local authority; his views that the numbers are sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason part-time students are excluded from the reduction in student fees outlined in the recent Budget; if has attention has been drawn to the fact that many students are trying to progress their careers in difficult circumstances by pursuing part-time education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that CORU social care worker registration status has not been given to the BA in professional social care (disability) degree from Open Training College courses for students who completed the course in 2020; the steps that students who completed this degree course in 2020 can take to get registered as a social care worker; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 697. To ask the Minister for Health his views on patients in public nursing homes being charged €100 for transport between one hospital and another for a scope, especially in light of the removal of inpatient hospital charges; if he recognises many such patients are already contributing much of their non-contributory State pension towards their care and are left with little real...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available to a child (details supplied) with Down Syndrome and moderate or severe hearing loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51569/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 791. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE roles that will be put forward for social care worker registration; and the level three qualifications that will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his rationale for requiring farmers applying for the new beef suckler scheme 2023 to be Bord Bia quality-assured given that the Bord Bia audit is another cross-compliance check for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51565/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: A good example is the need to ensure transport supports are there for people with disabilities and to deal with the mayhem around the primary medical certificate. Effectively, the appeals board dealing with the primary medical certificate resigned. The criteria by which the board members would judge somebody to be entitled to a primary medical certificate were deemed to be unfit for purpose...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: For clarification, I have just come from the meeting of the Committee on Disability Matters, where we discussed mental health reform and advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities and mental health. One of the issues which came from that meeting and continues to come from many of the meetings we have in this committee is that people talk about doing something into the future, or that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the number of participants on rural social schemes to meet the demand for the services delivered by the rural social schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had any discussions with the Department of Rural and Community Development with a view to addressing the anomaly whereby some persons on rural social schemes cannot access the fuel allowance due to the fact that they were not in receipt of the allowance when they started on the scheme, especially in light of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Considering a Rights-Based Approach to Disability in Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: Thank you Chair. I thank Senator McGreehan for letting me in. I have tabled a question on the optional protocol ratification, which is due to be taken in five minutes in the Dáil. I do not need any responses back at this stage, but I thank the witnesses. I have been listening to them all morning. What keeps coming up is that it is about rights. What has also come up is that we have...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. When I worked in the private sector, I had experience of trying to get permits for people coming into this country who were specialised at the time. That is going back a number of years ago. It was an arduous process to get the people we needed to work for us and who were specialised. Every year they had to reapply and we had to prove that...