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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Turf Cutting (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider deferring his proposed regulations to ban the sale of turf until further transitioning can be put in place to change existing heating appliances from solid fuel to heat pumps in existing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the scheme to allow persons who invested in microgeneration systems to receive payment for energy exported to the grid will commence; if the payment will be retrospective to 1 July 2021 as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the retrofit programme will be in place; the number of one-stop-shops in place to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28726/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that he is putting in place to ensure that the necessary public European Union charging infrastructure is put in place to deal with the increase in demand as more electric cars are purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28724/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has the data on the number of social housing properties under the control of local authorities in which the source of heat is solid fuel; the estimated cost of replacing the heating systems with heat pumps; and the expected timeframe for this transition to be complete. [28725/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider introducing a complaints process and an appeals mechanism in relation to the Coroner’s Court; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28780/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (2 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: 398. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of dentists who are available to treat patients who have medical cards; if he will ensure that sufficient resources are put in place to rectify this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28781/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Vice Chair and the witnesses who are with us. When we talk about the whole area of public sector reform and sectoral performance reports, one of the things that is close to my heart is equality in terms of disability budgeting. The reporting on that was introduced in 2018. Are the witnesses satisfied that the allocated expenditure is being spent within the Votes? Is it making...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I refer to green budgeting and how the reporting of its effectiveness will be rolled out. Are there any lessons the Department of Transport or the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications should be picking up from the equality budgeting to see if we can have better and more accurate reporting? We are now putting a lot of money into retrofitting and budgeting for that type...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: In the context of a budgetary oversight mechanism, is the fact that we have an annual budget - we do not have rolling budgets in many cases - hampering the performance of the money that goes into budgets? A Deputy alluded to the fact that it shows how much money was spent on home help. The reality on the ground is that we cannot fulfil the hours needed to be fulfilled. Does the Department...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: Finally, if I have a minute, I wish to go back to the capital plan, for instance, the national development plan. Is there a master plan that shows, over the lifetime of the national development plan, what projects will be at the different stages along the way each year so that we can track progress or lack thereof in these projects within each Department? Let us consider, for instance, the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: Does that capital project tracker flag up delays in projects so that people will know that projects that have been delayed will have to be accelerated to get them completed? How is that monitored? Is it just a reporting mechanism? If a programme sets out what is to be done over ten years, it will be monitored. I have not looked at the tracking system but it probably just shows progress...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Vice Chair for her indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I am not a member of the committee, but I thought it was important that I came down here to offer to my support to the witnesses. I was listening to them on the screen before I came down here; I had been doing something else. If we get anything out of today, we get a sense that there is total frustration. I know this myself on the ground. Mr. Kearney has hit the nail on the head on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses. They have given us an insight into how they are living through this process and the issues arising, which are horrible. This committee has had many meetings and is determining the best way to progress disability services. Having listened this morning, I believe the frustration of parents of children with Down’s syndrome relates to the fact that everything is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank our three guests for their forthright answers, not least in regard to recruitment. I was very interested when Ms Holmes stated that more administrative staff are needed to support therapists and to let therapists focus on their expertise. That is something we should take up given that if a therapist is involved in administrative work, that is a waste of a valuable and scarce...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: I will start with Mr. Barnes's final point about getting to a stage where we would not be importing any energy. It is a long way off. From reading the submission, the council is concerned we have not factored in the transition to a green economy. By not doing that, are we moving further away from making our dream of becoming energy self-sufficient and secure a reality? I am seeking Mr....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank Mr. Barnes. I meant to say at the start that I was watching these proceedings in my room but that the Internet connection was a bit flaky. It was going in and out. I decided to come down and join the party here. Not the political party. When we talk about changes in this context, I was in an electric car last night. The tax on it is €90. I guess the tax on that type of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: Following on from that point, let us take the working person and public sector pay. When we had increases in public sector pay back in the champagne days, those were blamed for causing significant inflation and for a recession. There is an expectation that public sector pay will have to rise to take care of and try to compensate people for the hyperinflation we have now. Does Mr. Barnes...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: Turning to tax revenues and the imbalance we have with corporate tax collection in this regard, does Mr. Barnes see the aspiration to continue to grow the numbers in work as a counterbalance for drawing in tax revenues that would be more stable? How can we address our reliance on corporate tax revenue in the context of running the country? I ask this because the current situation is not...