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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the primary medical certificates; his plans to expand the criteria for eligibility for persons to receive this assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26860/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the temporary help-to-buy scheme; his further plans to expand the scheme to include second-hand properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26863/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to include the refurbishment costs in addition to the capital costs of the house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27130/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a further extension of time for planning permissions will be considered for housing developments due to the impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27083/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the time will be extended for community employment scheme workers to remain on their placement due to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. [27079/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to mature and access students to purchase laptops in order to avail of online and blended learning during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27343/20]

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: I will be sharing my time with Deputies Lowry, Shanahan and Verona Murphy. I welcome this Bill. It is very necessary and I commend the speed with which the Minister of State has brought it forward in her short time in office. The forestry industry as we know it is in dire straits. I come from the constituency of Galway East, a rural area with a lot of forestry. We also have sawmills...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (30 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 233. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the fact that 75% of the available speech and language therapists in HSE community healthcare west are redeployed to either testing or contact tracing, including speech and language therapists from both primary care and social care, and the detrimental effect it is having in the delivery of services; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures being put in place to expedite public works contract tendering (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27746/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 123. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific support she plans to put in place to help operators of an event (details supplied) whose business has crashed due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27825/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Carer's Allowance (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the reason carer's allowance is taken into account as income in assessing the means for medical card applicants over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27823/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for coming over when the technology was not at its best. During the conversation over the past hour and a half, several issues have come to mind. First, we cannot pre-plan what we will be doing beyond the middle of next year, which creates a difficulty and means we cannot prepare a forecast. We do know what has happened since last March and on what money was spent,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: How will local authorities be financed from now on? Today, my own county council met to discuss the prospect of closing down two of its public swimming pools as it cannot afford to keep them going. The income of the local authority sector has been decimated. It will take a huge commitment to bring them and their rates base back when things start to improve. The plan to support local...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: What is the status of the review of the local property tax?

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I am delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, has been appointed to this area of responsibility. She is colleague of mine in the Galway East constituency. She has taken on a role in which, from her own experiences she knows well, there are many challenges. I also look forward to working with the chair of the disabilities committee, Deputy Moynihan. I look forward to working with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to include the refurbishment costs in addition to the capital costs of the house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26864/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an example will be published of the way in which the algorithm used in calculating leaving certificate grades works; the measures taken to preserve accuracy and fairness in the results; the way in which the algorithm was validated; the parameters used to ensure that the marks generated by the system reflected student performance; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason so many students were downgraded from H1 to H2 in the recent leaving certificate examination, especially when those students were identified as among the school’s highest achievers in that subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28680/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: The last few questions have been about Covid but I wish to discuss the situation of school secretaries, who did enormous work over the past six months to ensure the reopening of our national and secondary schools, which is one of the best achievements during Covid so far. Over 1,000 school secretaries are not being treated equally in their pay and conditions of employment. Will the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: There are a number of issues here. The Tánaiste talked about engagement and it is important that engagement takes place. It has been a year since the then Minister for Education and Skills agreed to enter into engagement with school secretaries. The offer made by the Department was for a pay rise, but what the school secretaries want is equality in their pay, terms and conditions....