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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jan 2024)

Seán Canney: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the review process by which carers are having their carers allowance reviewed and the invasive nature of the information being requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4092/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I want to raise the issue of wind farms and the proposals to build them across rural Ireland. It has come to County Galway, where, right now, surrounding Tuam, there are four proposed wind farms. There are lots of issues with the wind farms. The turbines have become larger and higher. When the guidelines were introduced in 2006, the span of the blades was 50 m; now it is 186 m, and we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: Nobody can deny that we need to move away from fossil fuels. We have the opportunity to do so by using solar on our roofs, which is less obtrusive and does not affect communities at large. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, described it as a roof revolution which would meet many of our targets. Offshore energy is another area where we are lagging behind. We have the potential to become the new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that householders who install solar panels on their home will not be liable for any tax for the green electricity fed to the grid from the solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps an energy bill holder (details supplied) should take when neither they nor their late father received the energy credit on their household account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5653/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the additional flood relief measures his Department can put in place to alleviate flooding of 20 acres of land which occurs each year from August 2023 to January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make changes (details supplied) to exempted development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the fodder support scheme to include a farmer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 453. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the ECCE capitation grant to childcare providers to meet the additional cost of providing the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the different rates of pay given by SOLAS to apprentices who are undertaking the same off-the-job training programme, will get the same qualification and do the same work; if he will address the pay difference paid by SOLAS to electrical apprentices in the engineering industry and electrical industry; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the broadband connection point at Mountbellow mart will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6475/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce legislation to allow Irish people living abroad the right to vote in elections and referenda in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6101/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the draft design guide for long-term care, to ensure the facilities remain viable and that this is taken into account in determining the maximum size of such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6100/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister. We will go back to Question No. 7 from Deputy Connolly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I am giving the Deputy bonus time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: We will take a supplementary question. My apologies, Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I call Deputy Ó Murchú, on a brief supplementary.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the officials for their opening statements. Many small businesses more or less looked at the support scheme and found they could not be eligible for it no matter what they did. To return to the framing of the scheme, it was done in a way, it seemed, that was trying to keep people out rather than get them in. It has left a bad taste and also left businesses trying to recover from an...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: With the pressure now on small businesses - and we are hearing this all the time - what type of research has been or is being done by the Department, perhaps with Revenue, to assess the state of SMEs at the moment? When you look at the returns for SMEs for 2022 or what their estimates might be for 2023, does the Department see a drop, more insolvencies and people going out of business? I...