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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support an urgent matter for a person (details supplied). [10151/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied). [10154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 662. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the plan for a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10156/23]

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I acknowledge the Minister's appraisal of our motion as balanced. We acknowledge that progress is being made and the work that is being done by everyone involved. I could make a number of comments to the Minister at this juncture, and not all negative. We have great potential to develop pre-hospital services rapidly. One area is the paramedics themselves. Their career path needs to be...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: This is the first time I have had an opportunity to speak to the Minister of State since she assumed her role. I wish her all the best with it. She is taking on a very important portfolio. It is important that we work together within the House. The legislation she is introducing is to be welcomed. I concur with the remarks about her predecessor as Minister of State responsible for this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: How do I follow that? This is an interesting discussion. We have to take decisions on climate change and climate action. At the same time as we are doing that in this country, many people are finding it hard to actually go along with everything that is being pushed at them. I will tell a story about St. Patrick's weekend in 2017, at this time of year, when I was on a trade mission to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (2 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a new tranche of funding will be made available for the safer access to schools scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2882/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. In the context of disabilities, many buildings in use in the Prison Service are historic and were built a long time ago. Is there a deficit of accessibility within these facilities for people with disabilities? Has a list been compiled of the works that need to be done to make buildings more accessible? Is there an estimated cost of what it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses.

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: Picking up where Deputy Naughten left off, regarding the warmer homes scheme, this is a fantastic one for people in fuel poverty. There is no doubt about it. The problem with it is the timeframe in which an application is processed and a building energy regulation, BER, assessment done. By the time the work gets done on a house, it will probably have taken about 18 months or longer.

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: We are talking about a length of time that is unacceptable. It would be good if we were going to be as quick with these types of schemes as we were to shut down Lanesborough and Shannonbridge power stations. To give the House another bit of history in this regard, this situation reflects what we did with the sugar beet industry. We made a decision, based on some desktop survey that was...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: This energy crisis is impacting everyone. I am fearful of the future. I refer to how we are driving people in every which way to use electricity, be it to heat their homes, using heat pumps, using electric vehicles and other transport. The question is how we are going to manage the supply of this energy in the future. We must plan for an increase in population. I know young couples who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I refer to housing and the Croí Cónaithe scheme. That scheme is fantastic and is beginning to take off and bring houses back into use. There are a number of issues around the scheme. First, the rule that a house has to be vacant for two years is causing a problem, especially in cases where people have passed away and the house is being passed to a family member. Some of these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will include Parkinson's disease as a qualifying condition for the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11048/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting for fistula surgery in UHG; the current wait time; the steps that are being taken to reduce this waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10817/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate a review of cases where farmers failed to tick the areas of natural constraint, ANC, box, did not receive the payment and were subsequently unsuccessful on appeal, as this was a simple administrative error which resulted in a 100% penalty and came at a time when his Department had recently introduced the need to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: Deputy Carthy needs a break. The issue I want to raise relates to the areas of natural constraint, ANC, payments. Will the Minister initiate a review of cases where a small cohort of farmers were given a 100% penalty for the fact they had not ticked a box when they made their application? Bear in mind this application process began as a manual process, then reverted to an online system....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: That response does not give any help to the farmers I know in my constituency. There are probably about ten I have on my books at the moment who are getting no money. They are elderly farmers who are computer illiterate and they did not tick the box. In fact, three of those farmers never said a word that they failed to get their grants until their accountant discovered it because they were...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I hear what the Minister of State is saying. It is of little comfort. The funny thing about it is I have been to agriculture appeals with these people and the people who do the appeal do everything manually. They do not do it on computers. They take their notes manually. It it important we realise we are dealing with human beings: small farmers, who may be elderly and some of whom are...