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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]

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 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...

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]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: The school bus service has been decimated and thrown around the place in recent months. It is a thundering disgrace. Transport services for people with disabilities in the context of schools have been cast into disarray. Parents have been all over the place trying to get their children, including those with special needs, to school, and this is an ongoing problem. Further announcements...

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I am delighted to see Deputy Calleary here in his brief as Minister of State. I wish him well and I am delighted he is present to deal with such an important Bill for the country. I look forward to working with him on it and wish him the best of luck in his role. When I was in the private sector, I engaged a lot with insurance and the construction industry. I saw claims come in and go...

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I am delighted to be able to speak on the Bill, and to bring to the attention of the Minister of State some of the issues that are affecting us nationally. First I will deal with the telephone system and the billing situation at the moment. Eir has issued letters to all of its fixed line customers to say that, in future, they will have to pay €7.50 for the privilege of getting their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessibility and Assistive Technology: Discussion (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I listened to the contributions and thank the witnesses for their clear and concise replies. Following the comment made about universal design, we are at a fairly early stage in assistive technology systems and appliances we can put in place. Now is the time to get standards and universal design right in order that we put in place technologies that can be used internationally or globally,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue the Ministerial Directive and guidelines to local authorities to allow them to process the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49382/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to issue the Ministerial Directive and guidelines to local authorities to allow them to process the new Croí Cónaithe vacant properties grant scheme for rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49383/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. Its importance has been brought to the attention of all of us in our constituencies, with people telling us they find it harder to live because of the cost of energy, fuel and all the other things necessary for living. It is important that people are supported but I am not sure about supporting them by giving them energy credits....