Results 541-560 of 2,202 for in 'Written Answers' speaker:Seán Canney

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend the recently announced decision to provide funding to a cohort of final-year psychology students in named colleges by contributing towards fees and expenses to second-year students, or to clarify whether NEPS will sponsor a cohort of trainees in the following academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Child Maintenance Review Group Report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the living alone allowance to one-parent families in receipt of fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to introduce targeted measures to improve the circumstances of one-parent families in 2023, given that there were no targeted measures for these families in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend social protection legislation to allow persons in receipt of farm assist payments to receive the household benefits package, given that low-income farm families are among those struggling with increasing energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that bonus payments are not being paid to persons in receipt of illness benefit; her views on whether this is permitted and if it is punishing ill persons who were formerly working; if she plans to introduce a mechanism whereby persons on illness benefit who have low means can apply for the bonus payments; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 740. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to develop a new National Child Poverty Plan with a dedicated unit to ensure an integrated and cross-governmental approach to address high levels of poverty in households headed by one parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the reduction in the student contribution of €1,000 is not extended to students who have changed college course and are deemed to be repeating first year even though it is a different course; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty that this is causing for a great number of families where a student has changed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 977. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 978. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims for reimbursement which were made under the primary care reimbursement scheme for termination of pregnancy in each of the years 2019 and 2020. [54446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 993. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports that will be put in place to help private nursing homes by way of an increase in the fee payable under the fair deal scheme to achieve pay equalisation with HSE nursing homes to ensure the sustainability of the private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1152. To ask the Minister for Health the input that midwives, clinicians and women’s health advocates had in framing the HSE recommendation to limit home births to women who live within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this recommendation restricts options for women and families in rural areas around one of the most important life...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1154. To ask the Minister for Health when agency nurses will receive their Covid payment, given that eight months have now passed since the payment was announced and three months have passed since HSE nurses were paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1192. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases where dental patients with medical cards are being taken off dentists’ medical card patient lists due to the patient not attending the dentist within the past three years and when they attended the dentist in 2019 but were unable to do so in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid restrictions; if this is permissible...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient and inpatients waiting for pain management in the Saolta University Health Care Group region; the length of time that these persons have been waiting; his plans to address waiting times for pain management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55304/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to increase the benefit-in-kind by 40% which will reduce the income for workers who need a company vehicle to carry out their duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53189/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly in the Budget 2023 proposals in which participants on community employment schemes will receive a €5 increase per week; if she will increase this payment to €12 per week in line with all other social welfare recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53190/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to change the regime in which persons who work past the age of 66 years can continue to claim the contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to extend the recently-announced €1,000 refund to undergraduate students to graduate entry medicine students who face annual fees of between €15,000 and €17,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53215/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new forestry programme will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53361/22]