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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made with the development of a new primary and secondary Gaelscoil campus in Athenry, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23812/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made with the development of a proposed new school (details supplied) in Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23811/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 516. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the Rural Regeneration Development Fund can be used by local authorities to purchase vacant and derelict properties for refurbishment to help rejuvenate the towns and villages and provide much needed housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23815/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister. I take solace from the fact he spoke about regional development. It is important we are all singing off the same hymn sheet. It is also important for colleges to have a decision as soon as possible. Many pieces of the jigsaw need to be put together, but I believe the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is on board. I look forward to an announcement at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the selection of the two locations for the new veterinary schools it is proposed to establish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23174/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Seán Canney: A proposal to establish two new veterinary colleges has been put forward. When will the two preferred locations be announced in order that those involved can get on with establishing these veterinary colleges, which will be very important for rural Ireland and those involved in agriculture?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I wish the Minister well in his new position. This is the first time I have had the chance to do so publicly. I accept that the process is ongoing. I know that the Minister and his colleague, the Minister for agriculture, will look at the financial supports and how they will be brought together. The Minister mentioned that the decision on where these veterinary schools will be located is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding is in place and available to the Atlantic Technological University to acquire student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23175/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (23 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the STEM building planned for the Galway campus of Atlantic Technological University will be proceeding to construction; the timeline for the completion of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23176/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses. It was very interesting, if not worrying, to hear about what is going on. I can go back and tell the witnesses about everything that is wrong, but my first question to them relates to what is being shown to be done right in their research.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I am looking at some parts of the PDS that are working right, but let us target what is not right and try to put it right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I wish to offer some information on the issue of staffing levels, which comes up. I have a report from our own CDNT in Tuam. We are at two thirds capacity with our staff. The problem is that we are down four-and-a-half whole time equivalents, WTEs, for speech and language therapists. On the practical side, I met a young speech and language therapist in Dubai at the end of January, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Seán Canney: There is something fundamentally wrong when that is what young people are doing when we train them here in this country. These are the options they are taking. Everybody wants to travel and there is no problem with that. The reason she was traveling was that she was not offered a full-time, permanent position, so she was going to explore the world while she was young. If people were being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Seán Canney: In fairness, the staff there are brilliant. The problem is they are working under a lot of pressure. Dr. O'Leary hit on that. That is my biggest worry. In addition to the parents and families being under a great deal of pressure, the staff will be looking for a way out if they do not get help. The help they need is for the vacancies to be filled.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (22 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 197. To ask the Minister for Health what procedures and expert advice are available and in place to a person whose child has been diagnosed with sprix (details supplied); what effects the condition will have on the child in the long term; the symptoms to be watchful for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23208/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I want to raise an issue that I know was close to the Taoiseach’s heart when he was Minister for higher education. It relates to the proposal to locate two additional veterinary colleges in the country. A process has been gone through and three locations have been shortlisted. The colleges are waiting anxiously for the announcement as to which ones will be running these courses...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I will say two things about what the Taoiseach said: people matter and families matter. It is important that in any rules, regulations, guidelines or anything like that we bring in, that our people have got to be at the top of the agenda. Deputy O'Donoghue will talk about this matter after me. However, it is important we see this as something that needs to be done for people on the ground....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Seán Canney: Today I want to raise an issue that is affecting many communities around this country. Outside on Kildare Street today, hundreds of people have gathered from 18 counties representing probably 50 community action groups regarding the development, proposed or otherwise, of wind farms across this country. It is unbelievable to think that the communities have to come together. They have formed...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (21 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will request the Workplace Relations Commission to update its website as a matter of urgency to allow workers to lodge a complaint about an employer who is ignoring a remote working request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (21 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the disparity in pay and conditions between section 38 and section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22907/24]