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Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the motion by People Before Profit, and the opportunity to speak on it. I am a member of the disability matters committee. For nearly five years, we have been hearing from different parents and representative groups what is going on and the way they are experiencing life, living with a disability or with a family member who has a disability. We hear it in our constituency...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities, and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, where applicable, are responsible for the maintenance of all public roads within their charge, including the removal of trees all along the roadside within the curtilage of the boundary of the road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to fund improvements to the N84 Headford Road, Galway to Castlebar, to help cope with the increase in traffic volumes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37208/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision by Bus Éireann not to allocate school bus tickets for four children (details supplied) after the payment deadline was missed due to a family bereavement will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37199/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given to a school (details supplied) for an application for funding for solar panels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37206/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made in the delivery of the wastewater treatment system for Craughwell, County Galway; if there is a site identified for the treatment plant; the expected delivery date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37205/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Swimming Pools (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 293. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider making it mandatory for all public swimming pools, including hotel pools, to have lifeguards during opening hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37211/24]

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I too welcome the opportunity to say a few words about the tax money that has come our way in the limited time I have. I am sure that everybody will have a shopping list and whatever. I too have a shopping list, but the shopping list is a bit like what Deputy Leddin said, in that there are projects we can invest in which will give us a return in our economy for generations to come. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials to the committee. I have been listening to the debate since I came into the committee room. I read the Minister of State’s opening remarks - I was in the Dáil while she delivered them. I will return to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight when I am finished here. Like me, the Minister of State gets queries coming into her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I know it is the Department of Finance that makes the decisions but what I and I suppose everybody else finds is that this is a disability issue. I will be meeting both Ministers, Deputies Chambers and Donohoe, shortly in the next room and I will ask them the same question. We are five years talking about it and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: What are the results of it after 12 months? Has anybody come back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: How many have come back? Will it make an appreciable difference? This is probably not widely known by many people. Where is it being targeted? How is it being advertised? How do the people in the Australia, New Zealand, Canada or wherever know about it? Is it a follow-up of graduates? How is it being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: Does the Minister of State know of any changes to the housing adaptation and mobility aids grants that were under review? Has she heard? Will something happen for disabilities?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I listened with interest to the contributions of the witnesses. I thank them for attending. I come from a construction background. I am very frustrated by the lack of new ideas as to how we should get the private housing market, which is dysfunctional, working. I listened with interest to the proposal that we should not spend any of this surplus money we have and that we should be bank...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I believe the witnesses, as independent observers and experts, can look at how we are doing our business, the processes we are using, what that is costing and how we can save money by doing things differently. I go back to the Dublin Port tunnel. It is the example I will give. There was talk at the time that it was not high enough to take trucks, it was leaking and it was going to fall in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I am not asking Professor McMahon to do so. If one takes a number of projects that have never gone anyplace, one will see how much is being spent on them and how many millions of euro have we wasted.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Professor McMahon.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I agree that we need checks and balances but I believe we have gone from correcting what was wrong to overcorrection. Now we end up at a stage where we have probably a worse situation and we are using a lot of resources in it which should be better employed and still have checks and balances. If one takes housing, for example, one should devolve the authority to the local authority to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Ministers. We are talking about all the money we have. It is dangerous times because it is about how we can spend it wisely rather than just throwing it around the place. I said it last year and I agree with the fact that we need to be putting some of this money into a future fund and a climate fund. We also have an opportunity to do something with some of this money to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I also asked about transport.