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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for his time. As a politician who worked in construction for more than 30 years, I have a good idea of how to build a house and how to work in construction. To return to the point about investment in housing, many young people nowadays cannot afford to buy or build a house because the standards and conditions under which people now have to build them have gone beyond...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Participation of People with Disabilities in Political, Cultural, Community and Public Life: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I apologise because I must go to another committee meeting. Earlier we spoke about trying to do two things at one time. I heard some of the presentations and I have listened to what the witnesses said. I thank everybody for participating. My first question is on the issue of employment. There are employability services trying to assist people with disabilities to get work. How do the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Participation of People with Disabilities in Political, Cultural, Community and Public Life: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I have one more question. I was also struck by the proposal that ISL be taught as part of the curriculum in national school. We forget that unless we have sign language we cannot communicate with people who are deaf. It is important that we do so. This is something I am taking from today. We should pursue it through the Department of Education as something positive in what we have spoken...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I agree wholeheartedly with what Deputy Griffin said about second-hand properties. I have submitted other questions on the matter, which we will come to. We need to incentivise first-time purchasers of second-hand properties. We need to ensure the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be available in respect not only of the purchase price but also of the cost of the refurbishment of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make separate funding available to Irish Water to install wastewater treatment plants in towns and villages in which no such facility exists and in which housing cannot be built due to this lack of infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46452/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I wish to raise an issue relating to Irish Water and its funding. Will a separate funding mechanism be made available to Irish Water to install wastewater treatment plants in towns and villages where no such facility currently exists and where houses cannot be built as a result of this lack of infrastructure? This is an important issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister of State for the reply, but it does not give me confidence that something will be done in the immediate future. Let us take the example of Athenry, a town all present know well. Three years ago, the wastewater treatment plant was expanded to take in additional capacity of all the housing estates in the town. There is a pipe network contract to be completed for that....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister of State for that. He talks about appropriate housing, appropriate ways of doing things and appropriate infrastructure. What about villages such as Abbeyknockmoy and Corofin where there is no municipal treatment plant and where no planning permission will be granted by the local authority or An Bord Pleanála because they say any development in these places is...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. We all know of people in chronic pain who have been waiting four years for pain management clinic appointments. Many Deputies have spoken about these kinds of issues tonight but I will concentrate on something else and I am glad the Minister and the Ministers of State are here to listen. The Saolta group, which covers the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank the Taoiseach. We need a bit more in the west than just a desire to do something. We need a commitment on it. It is very important that a commitment is made. As the Taoiseach stated, politically, everybody wants to do the rail network. It is actually part of our climate action plan to make sure transportation and production within plants are all done in a way that saves on CO2...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: My question relates to Intel and its shortlisting of Oranmore in Galway as a possible location for a multimillion euro manufacturing facility. I am envious of Leixlip in County Kildare when the Taoiseach talks about the number of construction workers alone operating there. The proposal for a facility in Oranmore would create 10,000 jobs in the region. It has also highlighted the potential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the incentives he plans to introduce to assist first-time buyers in purchasing second-hand houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46457/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the inclusion of the refurbishment as well as the purchase cost of houses by first-time buyers in the Rebuilding Ireland home plan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46458/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to incentivise property owners to refurbish residential properties in towns and villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46460/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the new guidelines for the development of rural houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to introduce supports to assist first-time homeowners to deal with the unprecedented rise in the cost of building materials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46459/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce a grant support scheme to assist charities in carrying out retrofit of their facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46561/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish hospitals perform surgery on unborn children for any conditions; and if so, if a list of the conditions and the location in which they are carried out will be provided. [45983/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish hospitals perform surgery on unborn children with spina bifida; if so, the amount that has been allocated to in utero care for babies with spina bifida in Ireland. [45984/21]