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Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Export Credit Insurance (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 57. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans to introduce an export credit insurance scheme for exporters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29379/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the existing research and development tax incentive scheme to make it more streamlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29384/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: I am delighted the Minister could afford the time to come here to engage with us. The plans we have in place now are plans for 2021. We do not seem to have a medium-term plan. We do not appear to have done any calibration of the different scenarios over the next four to five years. That is a concern which I hope the Minister will address. It might be crystal ball gazing but we need to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: The Minister spoke about capital expenditure and he said that it has increased to €1 billion, that he is looking at the baseline and that he will be looking at other capital expenditure to stimulate the economy. One of the problems we have with capital expenditure is that the timeline to deliver projects is far too long. If one decided tomorrow morning to build a housing scheme, it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: My next question is in regard to the Minister's expectation of expenditure to support local authorities. Local authorities have seen a decimation in their income stream this year. As we are in uncertain times, we can predict that rates revenue will be very low. In terms of housing, we need to ensure that our local authorities are resourced to deliver on the social and affordable housing...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Canney: The Minister says the two key focuses for him are health and housing. We are pumping a lot of money into the health service. The concern I have relates to the outcomes. There may be dead weight there and there may be easier or more efficient ways of doing business. The health service needs a huge amount of support at the moment, but with all of this additional money going in, what...

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]

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?

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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Medical Certificates (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: 30. 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. [27129/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Medical Certificates (29 Sep 2020)

Seán Canney: I raise with the Minister the issue of primary medical certificates. Does he have any plans to extend or broaden the criteria under which people can apply for such certificates? They are a very useful support for those who need them but I find many people visiting my constituency office who have children who need special vehicles but who do not qualify because they are not physically in a...