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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 302. To ask the Minister for Health when the day centre will be operational in a nursing unit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30251/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds now occupied in a nursing unit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30252/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann to ensure school bus services are in place to deal with the demand for the commencement of the school year in August 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27218/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made with the development of a new primary and secondary gaelscoil campus in Athenry, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27217/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide the temporary accommodation necessary to allow a school (details supplied) carry out its proposed works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27215/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that is being made with the development of the proposed new national school (details supplied) in Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27216/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of individual saving accounts which will give savers the benefit of tax-free savings, flexible contributions and diverse investment options and afford proper retirement planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30760/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (11 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will change the family reunion policy sin order that persons from a country outside the EU, who are in full-time employment, can have their immediate family live with them in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30766/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I listened with interest to the contributions of the witnesses. I thank them for attending. I come from a construction background. I am very frustrated by the lack of new ideas as to how we should get the private housing market, which is dysfunctional, working. I listened with interest to the proposal that we should not spend any of this surplus money we have and that we should be bank...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I believe the witnesses, as independent observers and experts, can look at how we are doing our business, the processes we are using, what that is costing and how we can save money by doing things differently. I go back to the Dublin Port tunnel. It is the example I will give. There was talk at the time that it was not high enough to take trucks, it was leaking and it was going to fall in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I am not asking Professor McMahon to do so. If one takes a number of projects that have never gone anyplace, one will see how much is being spent on them and how many millions of euro have we wasted.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Professor McMahon.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I agree that we need checks and balances but I believe we have gone from correcting what was wrong to overcorrection. Now we end up at a stage where we have probably a worse situation and we are using a lot of resources in it which should be better employed and still have checks and balances. If one takes housing, for example, one should devolve the authority to the local authority to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Ministers. We are talking about all the money we have. It is dangerous times because it is about how we can spend it wisely rather than just throwing it around the place. I said it last year and I agree with the fact that we need to be putting some of this money into a future fund and a climate fund. We also have an opportunity to do something with some of this money to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I also asked about transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials to the committee. I have been listening to the debate since I came into the committee room. I read the Minister of State’s opening remarks - I was in the Dáil while she delivered them. I will return to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight when I am finished here. Like me, the Minister of State gets queries coming into her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I know it is the Department of Finance that makes the decisions but what I and I suppose everybody else finds is that this is a disability issue. I will be meeting both Ministers, Deputies Chambers and Donohoe, shortly in the next room and I will ask them the same question. We are five years talking about it and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: What are the results of it after 12 months? Has anybody come back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: How many have come back? Will it make an appreciable difference? This is probably not widely known by many people. Where is it being targeted? How is it being advertised? How do the people in the Australia, New Zealand, Canada or wherever know about it? Is it a follow-up of graduates? How is it being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: Does the Minister of State know of any changes to the housing adaptation and mobility aids grants that were under review? Has she heard? Will something happen for disabilities?