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Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: Go easy on your-----

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, and it needs to be implemented as quickly as possible. Education is fundamental to the future of our country. Students going to college should have a good experience, and that includes safe and good accommodation at a reasonable price. This has not been the case in many instances in the past. Now we have a situation where some landlords and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I will raise the issue of succession plans for family businesses. The Finance Act 2023 made changes to capital gains tax for small indigenous businesses with assets valued at more than €10 million. I have been contacted by many businesspeople in my constituency who run generational businesses. If these measures are brought in, businesses will either regress or be sold off to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome Mr. Rowe and Mr. Harkin. I am not a member of the committee but I have an interest, some might say a vested interest, in waterways especially in my constituency. Listening to the conversation about by-laws and about infrastructure, it is most appropriate that I was at a meeting last night chaired by Charlie Killeen, who Mr. Rowe will know well, at Eyrecourt. It was discussing the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse the proposed cap of €10 million, due to come into force on 1 January 2025, on retirement relief under the capital gains tax relief for a business being passed onto a child, as the cap will pose an existential threat to the viability of many family businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29505/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Environmental Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider including the ECO scheme in the list of payments from farm environmental schemes which have disregards in terms of social protection payments such as farm assist, as the current list includes now-defunct environmental schemes; if she agrees that the rationale for the disregard is to ensure that people...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will waive the areas of natural constraints scheme stocking density requirement for herds that have been depopulated with TB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29113/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 752. To ask the Minister for Health if dental care can be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29589/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Deputy Tully for allowing me to go first. With some of the family here marking my card today, I had better ensure that I do things right. I welcome them all here. I thank Ms Griffin and Mr. Miller for attending and for their very interesting presentation on what the LAC programme has achieved through a small pilot scheme. They said the scheme is not operational now,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: How much money was involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: How long did the pilot scheme run for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: It was done within one county.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: Is it something that could or would have to be done through the 31 local authority areas? How does Ms Griffin envisage it being rolled out across the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: So, the source of the funding was the Department of Health, through the Dormant Accounts Fund?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: When did the pilot finish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: What is the position on the assessment and reports on the pilot and the outcomes that were determined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: Did DESSA present the information to the Department of Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the guests.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I too compliment Labour on bringing forward this very important motion. In all truth, only for Natasha O'Brien, Bláthnaid Raleigh and others having spoken out, we may not be talking about this today. I commend Natasha on speaking out. We have to reflect on what is happening and all the things that are wrong. The first issue I will speak to is the judicial system and how we can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the contract for a school (details supplied); when a contractor will be appointed; when work will commence on site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27939/24]