Results 601-620 of 4,750 for speaker:Seán Canney

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.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide additional bus services between Galway and Loughrea to service the demand for public transport in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36013/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the direction by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to all local authorities to withhold planned road improvement tenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36014/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 243. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that some soft play centres that have a coffee shop attached which accounts for 80% of their turnover and the business is a registered cafe and or restaurant with the HSE have been deemed ineligible for the increased cost of business scheme (ICOB2) grant funding despite the fact that they were eligible for ICOB1...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the lack of strategy around regional screen production since the lapse of the s.481 regional uplift; if she will support a dedicated regional strategy as part of Budget 2025 to specifically address the development of the sector in the regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a farmer who is applying for farm assist has to have farm accounts done by an accountant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove nursing home costs from the means assessments for fuel allowance payments to alleviate the burden on families (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36431/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 687. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE is refusing to employ recently graduated mental health nurses, despite the chronic shortage of mental health nursing staff in the health system, leaving graduates with no option but to emigrate to other countries; if his attention has been drawn to the further devastation that this decision will cause to the mental health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for assessment and the waiting time for treatment at the pain clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of people waiting for treatment; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36620/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 274.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to increase the frequency of public transport from Galway to Kilcolgan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 275.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to increase the frequency of public transport from Loughrea in County Galway to Galway via Oranmore; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35252/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 278.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant assistance available to support a local business install an EV charging point at its premises for commercial and public use; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 297.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give funding to local authorities to deal with the issue of ash dieback on trees located on public roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 341.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will change the 9% VAT refund scheme for coaches and buses to include all coach or bus operators operating a passenger transport service, as the present scheme includes tourist operators only; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34578/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 342.To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an exemption from stamp duty available for the Traveller ethnic group who are purchasing a home; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (9 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 454.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an elemental cost breakdown of the expenditure on the new bicycle shelter at Leinster House, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35944/24]