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Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: This levy will be on concrete blocks and other concrete products and it will be paid for by the taxpayer, be it through public works contracts that will increase in price, by farmers who are trying to upgrade their slurry facilities to meet environmental demands or, most importantly, by anybody trying to buy or build a house. The SCSI have put €4,000 of a price tag on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the low price being paid to electricity microgenerators through the feed-in tariff (details supplied); if he will introduce a scheme in which microgenerators will be incentivised to supply electricity to their neighbours, given this would be subject to low transmission and distribution costs and would...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider supporting apartment owners who need to address fire safety issues in their apartment blocks, given these property owners are not at fault in terms of the problem but are faced with huge bills to have the matter addressed and, in the meantime, lives are endangered; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that prior teaching service by a teacher, which has not been reckoned for an incremental credit as teaching, cannot be reckoned as a credit for non-teaching experience (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dormant Accounts Fund (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department will provide funding under the dormant account fund measures to support the employment of people with disabilities given that the present three-year funding expires in December 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48398/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will change the rules in relation to the three-year residency for children born outside the European Union whose parents have returned to Ireland to allow the children to become eligible for grants for third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48407/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 655. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that is paid to each doctor for the performance of an abortion in a general practitioner-setting; the amount paid to doctors, midwifery, and any other hospital staff for the provision of abortion in a hospital setting; and if either amount has changed since 2019. [48352/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 656. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was spent in relation to abortion provision to community-based groups which provide counselling and provision of abortion; and if he will provide a breakdown of the monies spent on advertising, training, consultancy, legal advice, and any other relevant services in each of the years 2019 to 2021. [48353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (4 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the amount that was paid to general practitioners for carrying-out abortions in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and the total amount paid for abortions carried out in hospital settings separately in that timeframe. [48354/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: Yesterday, the budget announcement regarding the defective concrete blocks levy smacked of an ill-timed, ill-judged decision. It is expected this levy will raise €80 million annually. It will commence on 3 April 2023. The levy will result in a 10% increase in the cost of concrete, concrete materials, sills, lintels, hollow-core floor slabs and concrete blocks. At a time when...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: The Taoiseach mentioned mica, pyrite and apartment defects. The core problem here is that we do not have effective building control. Until we bring in a system of proper building control, we will continue to put billions of euro into the rectification of problems with innocent people's properties. I do not believe the cure for this problem is to put a levy on young people who are trying to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: There was very little in the budget that we had not picked up over recent days, weeks and months, given the flying of kites to see what might be acceptable. From that point of view, little in the budget is new and we will see what is really in it when we get the detail. I welcome the fact the Government has taken measures to help people with the cost of living but I am concerned that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for the update. There is no appeals mechanism in place for anyone who applies for the primary medical certificate because the appeals board resigned over a year ago, citing the unworkable nature of the scheme. No action has been taken since. Sometimes when you look at something like this, there is complete inequality in the system. People who are on the existing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: I do not doubt the Minister's commitment but we need to move it on. I would like to quote from Peter Tyndall's report: The reports published by the Ombudsman since 2012 highlight the same issues over and over again. I am very concerned that the issues identified appear to have effectively been ignored and that nine years later, there is no evidence of any real progress that would serve to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that is being made on introducing a new scheme for disabled drivers and passengers which will be workable and relevant to persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46557/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: What progress is being made on the introduction of a new scheme for disabled drivers and passengers, which would be workable and relevant to their particular circumstances, taking into account that the mobility allowance and motorised transport grants for new applicants were suspended in 2013, with the promise that a new scheme would be put in place? The only remaining support available for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on increasing the working from home relief in view of the increased heat and electricity costs faced by home workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider exempting all community groups from paying VAT on goods and services to protect such groups given the current increase in costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a VAT rebate on domestic and commercial solar panel installation to encourage the further installation of such panels in the current energy crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46560/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove the commercial stamp duty definition rate of 7.5% on agricultural land and revise it in line with the residential stamp duty charge of 1% up to €1 million and 2% thereafter. [46561/22]