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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that RSS and Tús scheme supervisors currently receive a pay rate of €11.01 per hour, which is lower than that received by scheme participants (details supplied); if she will provide more funding for the pay of RSS and Tús supervisors to their employing groups; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) is not in receipt of the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the creation of a new further education and training college in Galway to consolidate the provision by the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board of education in the city and to enable the board to deliver on the national Further Education and Training Strategy and on his Department’s policy mission to develop...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 701. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made in relation to resolving the current impasse with dentists providing services to the HSE, as many patients across the country are unable to access services due to the current dispute, which is causing great hardship to persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 704. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to address the failure in leadership and management, the failure to tell the whole truth, the false reassurance and attempts to play down the seriousness of the Cervical Check debacle as highlighted in the Government Cervical Check State apology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Probation and Welfare Service (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 792. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the criterial for the ACRES scheme to allow flock keepers to make applications as many farms throughout the country are going through probate following the death of a herd owner and these families risk losing out on the ACRES scheme as they are herd keepers as opposed to herd owners while legal matters...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (22 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 793. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will change the current regime to ensure that scans are accepted as proof of a cow being in-calf in cases of TB outbreaks as farmers risk losing significant sums of money if a post-mortem examination fails to pick up on the fact that a cow was in the early stages of being in-calf; and if he will make a statement on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome all the participants here, especially Ms Conway, who comes from Headford in my own constituency in Galway. I thank her for coming up here today. I declare my own vested interest. I own property and have my property is rented. I put that on the record. Coming from a farming background, I believe there is a populist thing about land, wealth and tax, as well as how important it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the witnesses. Listening to the commentary both from the witnesses and the members, the first thing I want to say is in reply to Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. Galway is coming up close to Kerry now from a tourism point of view. We are clipping at Kerry's ankles at the moment and we will catch them next year in the all-Ireland final and that will do us. On a more serious note, we...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I am sharing time with Deputy Shanahan. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. This is my first opportunity since being elected to the Dáil to speak about drugs and the plight of those who have an addiction to drugs. There is more than one part to this issue but first, and most important, are the victims, young and old, who have succumbed to the use of drugs and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the agreed gratuity payments will be paid to CE supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53771/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the €500 once-off payment to people with a disability to include disabled persons who have transferred to other State pension due to them reaching the pension age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53773/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the funding for the school meals programme to take into account the increase in the costs of providing the meals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53775/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if participants on CE schemes with a disability will be included in the €500 top-up for people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53772/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the rural social scheme top-up of €5 announced in Budget 2023 to €20 to keep pace with current inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53774/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress of a new school (details supplied) for Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who has been living alone in Ireland for 19 years and who is in receipt of €215 per week in workman’s compensation from the United States of America can receive the living alone allowance and fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59350/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of entitlements in the national reserve for young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59106/22]

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I again acknowledge the support and co-operation of the Minister's officials in meeting with Deputy Naughten and me to discuss these issues following the committee meeting. When I mentioned music at the committee, the Minister said I was getting to the soul of the matter. Local radio goes beyond the usual in what it provides, all of which we have become used to having. During the pandemic,...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister and her officials. We all recognise the problems and the Minister has recognised them in what she has said, which I thank her for. The €2.5 million for the sound and vision scheme is a positive, as is the engagement with BAI. That will make sure we end up in a situation where we get this sorted out permanently so that the likes of Galway Bay FM, Clare FM,...