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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Review of Past Performance, Current Issues and Future Strategies (31 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: Like the rest of my colleagues around the table, I am delighted to meet the delegates. Like every other Deputy, rural Deputies especially, I have a long history of working in the community. I compliment the delegates on the work they do. We have spoken about the rural social scheme and Tús, but one of the issues I am coming across lately is insurance cover for rural social scheme or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Review of Past Performance, Current Issues and Future Strategies (31 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: The local authorities, through Irish Public Bodies Insurance, are not inclined to take on this insurance liability and the sponsoring groups definitely should not be expected to take it on. This is seriously curtailing the benefit that can be delivered by the schemes. It is something of which the Leader groups and those administering the rural social scheme are acutely aware. I remember...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Review of Past Performance, Current Issues and Future Strategies (31 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: Pobal oversees the spending of a lot of money. When we undertake a project, we are asked if we delivered value for money. If, for example, an engineer was to write a letter to say value for money had been achieved, is it the kind of thing Pobal would accept? I know that the schemes do achieve value for money. Any money spent on them, including the social inclusion and activation...

Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: Today's business shall be No. 11, motion re amendment to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, referral to committee, and No. 32, Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 171, motion re affordable housing, selected by Sinn Féin. Wednesday's business shall be No. 32,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: I, too, welcome Mr. Wojciechowski. I am from east Galway, an area that has seen an increase in the number of people leaving agriculture. There is also the fact that young farmers are not coming into it. That has been verified by the Western Development Commission and gives cause for concern. The number working in agriculture in the west has dropped by 41% in the past 20 years, which is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: I will leave my question until then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: This is something that is exercising my mind. The figure is 1 million young farmers lost from agriculture in the eight years between 2005 and 2013. That is supported by the figures from the Western Development Commission which show that 41% of people left agriculture in the 20 year period up to 2016. The witnesses are the auditors and part of their job is to examine whether the money we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: I was waiting and listening and very taken by what had been said. I thank all participants for their contributions. I come from Galway east. People in that area - Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh has just left the meeting - often say we are the poor relation compared to Galway city when it comes to the arts. The delegates mentioned the Galway Arts Festival, but there was a Tuam Arts...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Western Development Commission (16 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: The Western Development Commission has made various submissions on the deficiencies in infrastructure in the west. In particular, it has prepared an analysis, for example, to show where the agriculture industry is going in the west. There has been a dramatic drop of 41% in the number employed in the region in the past 20 years. That is a startling finding. The commission has prepared...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development (16 Jan 2018)

Seán Canney: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the work undertaken on the development of the Atlantic economic corridor; his views on whether there are specific infrastructure projects which could form part of the corridor; and if his Department has sought the inclusion of the AEC in the national planning framework and the capital plan. [1289/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Seán Canney: I welcome the Minister of State. The concept of creating a counterbalance through the Atlantic economic corridor to the overdevelopment on the east coast is not targeted properly in the NPF. That needs to be the big ticket item for us in the western half of the country from Cork through Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Donegal to Derry. The technological university status granted to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Seán Canney: Having listened to those who have spoken, I have two points. Many people have spoken about the railways. That point needs to be stitched in. The other big message to which we need to come back relates to the Atlantic economic corridor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister of State.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill introduced by my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross. I acknowledge that excessive drinking and drink-driving should not be tolerated. Too many people have lost their lives as a result of it and too many families have been left devastated by it. I meet people who have lost loved ones as a result of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Canney: I welcome the delegation. It is interesting to hear the discussion taking place. To correct Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, the man upstairs whom he is talking about revoked the statutory instrument on testing tractors so he need not worry about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Canney: I am just clarifying so the Deputy will have the information when going back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Canney: From listening to the debate and from my agricultural background, I note there is a view that there will be widespread, out-of-control burning of gorse. Burning is part of the rotational sequence associated with keeping a good farm. My brother has hedges and stone walls. The stone walls are not good enough to give shelter so there are hedges along them. They have to be pruned, thickened...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Canney: I thank Mr. Parnell for his presentation. The action plan is fairly clear as to goals and objectives. In the area of flood relief, I compliment the Office of Public Works, OPW, and officials on taking on the amendments I instigated to the minor works scheme, which is very important to rural Ireland. It will help more flood schemes to be done as they will be better able to satisfy...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Seán Canney: I am delighted to be on this committee, and I am delighted to see Mayo and Galway joining forces within the Department. I look forward to working with both the Minister, Deputy Ring and Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, to provide for rural and community development over the next number of years. I have three questions at this stage. In the programme for Government it was agreed that the...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Seán Canney: I want to make one comment about broadband. I propose that the committee invites the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to attend a debate where we discuss what is happening at present. The Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, mentioned that one can contact the country broadband officer. In Country Galway thousands of queries about broadband have been lodged. A good...