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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made in negotiations on the pension entitlements of community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49438/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (12 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangement his Department will put in place to deliver day centre services to older persons in the Loughrea, County Galway catchment area given that St. Brendan’s community nursing unit is unable to restore its daycare service due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49145/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the resources necessary to employ an additional 100 neurology nurses across the health service in Ireland including nine additional nurses at University College Hospital, Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49605/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: Last night, I highlighted many measures in the budget that were to be welcomed. I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, on increasing his budget for floor relief. He listed out the many projects he hopes to get started next year and they are all very familiar to me because they all featured on plans in 2015 and 2016. The problem with such projects, as he will be aware, is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 207. To ask the Minister for Health when he will establish a Ministerial stakeholder group as agreed by him in November 2020 to review and strengthen current risk reduction measures for women of childbearing potential prescribed valproate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49978/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 208. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit four unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts agreed in 2018 for the implementation of the pregnancy prevention programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49979/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 5. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures she will put in place to increase funding already allocated under the rural regeneration and development fund to projects in which the costs have increased substantially due to the unprecedented rise in the cost of materials; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49400/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: My question relates to the current problem in regard to costs for projects for which money has been already allocated. Costs are rising. Funding has been already been allocated. What measures are being put in place to top up the grants already provided to meet rising costs or is such a facility already in place?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for that very comprehensive reply. I am glad to see she is using the quantity surveying profession, of which I am member, to help her to keep the costs in check. I welcome her clarification that these costs are open for review because normally what happens on projects is when the application is made, applicants perhaps do not have the full design in place or the details...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: Absolutely. I hope and trust the projects she mentioned in Athenry and Portumna, as well as those in Loughrea and Tuam, are not half-baked and the figures are correct, inasmuch as they could have been at the time. It is a picture of a cost at a particular time. I welcome the fact that it is being recognised by the Department that costs rise. I compliment its staff for all the work they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 7. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to support the development of women’s sheds in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49403/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: My question relates to women's sheds. I have been contacted by a group of women in Tuam who want to set up a women's shed. They want to know where to go to get State support. Men's sheds groups have been successful throughout the country and have been strongly supported by the Department. In that context, we should consider supporting women's sheds. I look forward to the Minister's response.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: Initially when I was praising the Minister, I inadvertently left the Minister of State out of the equation. Every Department needs a good team and I am delighted that the Minister of State is doing a great job in the Department. I thank him for his reply. It is important to ensure that women's sheds get parity of esteem and the same quality of service as men's sheds. Women need to have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister of State for that. When women's sheds are starting out, they do not know where to go for funding. The first port of call for information is the local authority. It would also be important to register with the Public Participation Networks, PPN. It is important to give groups as much information as possible. We will also look into the possibility of getting assistance...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: I welcome the extension of the help-to-buy scheme but I would like the Tánaiste's comments on how it can be enhanced to include first-time buyers of any of the vacant properties that are splattered around every town and village in this country. We should give young people a chance to bring those homes back into use by extending to them the supports available under the help-to-buy...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 40. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects to announce the next round of allocations from the rural regeneration development fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49404/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department plans to make funding available under the rural regeneration development fund for the installation of municipal waste water treatment plants in towns and villages in which no such services exist and development cannot progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49401/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 47. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to increase funding for local improvement schemes in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49402/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (14 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: 59. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the value of the dormant accounts fund that is to be available in 2022 to support community development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49405/21]

Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2021)

Seán Canney: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am honoured to move the motion and, with my colleagues from the Regional Group of Independent Deputies, to speak on the matter here today. The State has failed to put a strategy in place since the European Commission approved the charter of rights for persons with autism in 1996. The charter states that people with autism should...