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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: Is there a conflict between increasing social welfare and the lower income workers who feel they would be better off not working because student grants and such like would be easier to get? Is the budget doing enough with regard to the take-home pay of people who are working to ensure it is of benefit to them? Is there a fine line? How do the Departments monitor or do analysis on that? I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I did.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I am crystal ball gazing at this stage. How long will we see maintained the level of income from the foreign direct investment, FDI, corporate tax we are enjoying? When might the rate start to decrease or will it continue to grow? What is the Department's expectation for the next five years?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: Does the Department do analysis as to how come these windfall taxes have arrived? What has caused them? Is there a reason this happens? Will the reason be there next year and the year after? When the money comes in, does the Department say it is a windfall because it is over its expectations?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: Funding was announced for the LEADER programme two weeks ago. I welcome that this funding has been put in place. County Galway received an allocation of €9 million for the next five years and this process has shown the funding we are getting per head of population is at the lower end of the scale. We are getting €46.63 per person for the next five years. A comparative...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I do not disagree regarding all the schemes that are there, but they are available to everybody right across the country. The Minister mentioned rural regeneration and urban regeneration and all these funds. They are welcome and they create better investment for a better environment to work and live in in rural areas. The kernel of my point is not about a reduction; it is about how...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I am delighted we are debating this subject. In my constituency, as is probably also the case for the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, a lot of people come to me who say they or their parents have been assessed for hours, there is an allocation given but the hours are not provided. Nothing happens. I dealt with a man who needs two people to help him because he has had three strokes. He...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I support my colleague, Deputy Naughten, in what he said. I reiterate that in a constituency like Galway East, where we have had a significant amount of flooding for a long period and where many local roads were blocked, local radio proved to be a vital information tool to direct people on how to access their homes, to know where to go and what was going on in terms of electricity cuts....

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: The important thing is we catch something in this legislation or some commitment is made rather than leaving it in abeyance, because if it drifts from this legislation and this opportunity, we could rue what we have done. When the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform gets its hands on it, it will be a different kettle of fish. Even from a music industry point of view, it is very...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — the most recent waiting list figures available from the National Treatment Purchase Fund show over 79,000 patients are waiting for an inpatient or day case procedure, and a further 625,000 are awaiting an outpatient appointment; — the Irish College of General Practitioners has indicated that only one-in-five...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: The national retained firefighters service is suffering severe difficulties in the recruitment and retention of staff. The model on which the current service is operating was developed in the 1950s and is not fit for purpose in a modern working environment. I acknowledge that the Department has undertaken investment in my constituency, with a new fire station in Tuam, a contractor having...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: It is great to see you back in the Chair, a Cheann Comhairle. I wish you the best of luck. I welcome the opportunity to speak about Irish Water and water policy. At times, I have spoken repeatedly about some of the issues creating problems with regard to the work carried out under Irish Water. Irish Water has two main functions: water and wastewater. I will address wastewater first....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inshore Fisheries (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the tourist angling measure funding for the Clare river system has delivered the 37 galvanised metal stream crossings and angling stands which were to be installed; if the funding was drawn down by Inland Fisheries Ireland from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rented Dwellings Register (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be a rebate for landlords who registered their property with the Residential Tenancies Board in 2021 and paid €90 and who now have to re-register the property in 2022 and pay another €40; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54369/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that tenants who fail to pay their HAP payment can be evicted from their tenancy during the eviction ban period as proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with insurance companies and the Fire Service to delay any evacuations from an apartment block (details supplied) pending the introduction of a support scheme by his Department and the procurement of remedial works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend the recently announced decision to provide funding to a cohort of final-year psychology students in named colleges by contributing towards fees and expenses to second-year students, or to clarify whether NEPS will sponsor a cohort of trainees in the following academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Child Maintenance Review Group Report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the living alone allowance to one-parent families in receipt of fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55140/22]