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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome that the Minister of State has said he wants people to live in rural Ireland. Let us make it happen. It is important, when we think about it, that various local authorities take various views on planning. Within each local authority, different planners take varying views as well. This is the inconsistency that is there. These guidelines need to be consistent. I come from a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: I want to raise the issue of planning in Ireland and how we are going about that business. The context is that I met the Planning Regulator yesterday and we discussed policies. He was in the audiovisual room presenting to us. It is glaringly obvious that the housing situation in this country, especially the private housing market, is dysfunctional. Developers are not building housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: The core strategy. It is preventing us from zoning lands to have a supply of lands available for residential development in our towns, our villages and our cities because we have to follow this core plan based on population increase. In most cases, however, we are zoning lands that may not be available at all for one reason or another, we are zoning lands that will never be sold for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: I meant to say it at the start but on behalf of the Regional Group I want to extend our sympathies to the family of the late Brendan Daly, a man who I met on a number of occasions. May he rest in peace. I want to come back to the Tánaiste's reply. He said the Government has to drill down into it and he spoke about a strategy for building houses. We all know that the private housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: Common sense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: It is scarce.

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to again speak on this important subject matter. Yesterday when I spoke about this issue, we were talking about farmers, the protection of farmers and how the communication to farmers on what has been going on has been poor. We talk about climate action and the measures we are taking to try to deal with it to reach our targets but we have a huge opportunity with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide additional resources to the local authority to deal with and manage the demand for the vacant property refurbishment grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33203/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that insurance companies are using the issue of the differential price walking as set out by the Central Bank as a reason to increase insurance premiums for car insurance and house insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact of the introduction of the concrete levy on the cost of house building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33202/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the band a school (details supplied) is on the Pobal HP deprivation index; what data was used to decide this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33386/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of secondary schools have been given access to a full-time HSCL; if this has declined in recent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33387/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a secondary school (details supplied) was allocated 0.5 HSCL; what data was used to make this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a school (details supplied) was placed in the same cluster for HSCL as another local school; who made this decision; what policy was used to make this decision; if she will provide the correspondence that was sent with this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33390/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for further information on the phase of work currently underway to explore the allocation of resources to schools in County Galway, including the HSCL co-ordinator, to tackle educational disadvantage; when this phase of work started or will start; who is responsible for it; when is it expected to conclude; if schools can participate in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 233. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the source of the funds in the barter account set up by RTÉ, as revealed in Oireachtas Committee meetings recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33404/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: I also have grave concerns and reservations about aspects of the Bill that I hope the Government will listen to and address in the form of amendments in due course. The effect of this legislation will go far beyond what the Government has sketched out with regard to its intended impact. Proponents of the Bill say that its purpose is to stop harassment, which we can all agree is wrong....

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: We are talking about the problems with housing again. I want to address a few issues that are having a serious effect on how we deliver our housing stock. In my constituency, many towns and villages do not have a wastewater treatment plant. These towns and villages have been frozen out of any developments as Bord Pleanála deems such developments to be premature until municipal water...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Investigations (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many soil testing labs are approved by his Department, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Rights (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Canney: 640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the remaining provisions of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 will be commenced; if she is aware of the difficulties that this is causing for workers across rural Ireland, who are now being forced to make long and unnecessary commutes to large urban centres to work; and if he...