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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: 721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recent announcement in budget 2021 in relation to the reduction in class sizes relates to DEIS band 1 senior schools only; if this decision ignores DEIS band one junior and vertical schools; if all disadvantaged schools will receive this reduction; if her attention has been drawn to the strong evidence that exists to support smaller...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: 794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is making a contingency plan to allow 2020 leaving certificate students to sit their exams in June 2021 if they cannot go ahead in November 2020 due to the Covid-19 situation; her views on the commitment already made to hold the exams in November 2020; if these exams are going ahead; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33357/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: 846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an extension of parental leave is not available until April 2021; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many women who gave birth since the onset of Covid-19 restrictions in March 2020 are struggling due to the lack of available childcare and will be negatively impacted by having to take a further...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: 923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the time on the scheme for all community employment scheme participants for a period during the current Covid-19 crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33355/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: 1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on third level institutions failing to offer a reduction in fees to students at a time when classes are online and many of the on-campus services offered to students are no longer available; if his attention has been drawn to the financial pressure this is placing on third-level students and their families during the pandemic; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: 1361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider using the Reserve Defence Force to help with contact tracing for Covid-19 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33354/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I spoke last night on this issue. We have had a very reasonable discussion about it. I am disappointed with the Minister's statement that he will not accept any of the amendments. Democracy was shown by the Members who spoke last night and again today. Passion has been shown. I doubt that anybody wishes to do anything other than the right thing. I appeal to the Minister to consider in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (22 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that fees for Irish students studying elsewhere in the EU are not paid by SUSI, as a maintenance grant alone is payable; his further views on whether this is discriminatory against such students studying in other EU countries as both fees and maintenance grants are available for students studying here; and if he will make...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this emotive issue. We have been listening all evening to Deputies' contributions. This is an emotional debate. It should be non-political and an issue on which we should all work together. I come from just outside Tuam and I went to school in the town. I know many of the people who live near the Tuam mother and baby home. We have a lot of...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — that transactions within the post office network are down by an estimated 25 per cent due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which heightens the serious viability challenges facing the network; and — the need to put the post office network on a sustainable operational and financial footing in line with the Cabinet decision in 2017;...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: In light of the lockdown, there is an ongoing issue with community employment, CE, supervisors and their claim for support and recognition. These are people who will be on the front-line dealing with people who are in isolation and living alone and creating the community effort over the next six seeks to ensure that everything is right in the communities. I would welcome the Taoiseach's...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I agree that the mother and baby homes commission is a sensitive matter for a lot of people. We should not trivialise or try to short-circuit the matter. I have never heard so many people worried about a Bill. We have not had time to go through it properly. It is important that we dedicate time to debate it in a sensible way because it is such a sensitive issue for so many people. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deliver Irish courses for teachers who have trained in the UK but are now back in Ireland; if there are plans to deliver courses online due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31544/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending free travel to include children who are being cared for by a carer receiving the carer’s allowance in view of the fact that at present the carers receive free travel but the children do not; if her attention has been drawn to the burden this places on low-income families in which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the reintroduction of the debt on the employer concept in social welfare and pension legislation to ensure effective protection for pensioners in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31520/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 708. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical graduates from India are unable to register in Ireland as general practitioners even if they have completed the required registration exams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31511/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 717. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the orthodontic assessment waiting list in County Galway; the current waiting time for assessment; the number of patients on the orthodontic treatment waiting list; the current waiting time for orthodontic treatment; if there are unfilled clinical positions; the plans in place to reduce the treatment waiting time; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the need to re-establish the Irish wool council to address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31501/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that inadvertently lost out on an ANC payment in the past five years as they did not tick the ANC box on their SPS application form; the number that appealed this to his Department; the number that appealed this to the agriculture appeals office; the percentage of each of the respective appeals which were...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Ownership (20 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the inordinate delay in processing freehold title queries relating to the Land Commission within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31542/20]