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Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this very important subject. It is important that when vacant properties are not being used or are being hoarded, there is a strong penalty to make sure to get these moved on. I believe we also need to have a bit of carrot with the stick. We need to make sure that where properties that can be brought back into use, they are either refurbished and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the re-location of a school (details supplied); if she is aware that the NCSE evaluation was finalised in March 2022, and the school’s current lease is due to expire in September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16365/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to pay the full basic supplementary welfare allowance to asylum seekers who are not in direct provision and if she plans to give asylum-seeking children access to child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16701/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the means test for carers where the care recipient is a child who has lifelong medical needs as the level of care required from such families is all-encompassing, from daily personal care, feeding, household chores to include a multitude of medical appointments and the associated costs of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the criteria for fuel allowance in light of the housing crisis, where many adult children cannot get accommodation and move out of home, which is preventing their parents from accessing fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [17580/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 955. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to lift the restrictions on the right to work to allow all asylum seekers to work and implement all the recommendations of the Catherine Day advisory group in relation to the right to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16700/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1023. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to update the laws on hearsay to match those of other jurisdictions to ensure that juries are allowed to hear of fears expressed by a person prior to their death and that these statements are not ruled as inadmissible due to rules on hearsay in trials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18071/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Regulations (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1024. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend the necessary regulations to ensure that someone convicted of murder or manslaughter does not benefit in any financial way from the estate of the victim of the crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the State forensic investigators are to acquire advanced new technology to allow them to identify relatives of children buried at Tuam Mother and Baby Home; and if he will allow relatives as distant as half nieces and nephews and cousins to be matched to remains; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the direct provision allowance, as welfare allowances have been increased several times while the direct provision allowance of €38.80 per week remains unchanged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16699/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the rent-a-room scheme to allow households who have an available bedroom to rent it to asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17665/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will pay the full basic supplementary welfare allowance to asylum seekers who are not in direct provision and give asylum-seeking children access to the child benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the direct provision allowance, given that welfare allowances have been increased several times while the direct provision allowance of €38.80 per week remains unchanged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17667/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1412. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the difficulties being faced by overseas healthcare assistants in terms of getting renewed work permits; if those qualified above QQI level 5 in the health care sector will need to repeat the QQI level 5 due to HSE changes to the National Framework of Qualification QQI level 5 course for the occupation of healthcare assistant in Ireland;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1352. To ask the Minister for Health what steps should be taken by nursing home workers where a former employer sought and was paid the Covid bonus payment on their behalf, but the worker has not been paid by their now former employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1461. To ask the Minister for Health whether reimbursement payments to abortion-providing GPs was included as part of the €11.5 million figure allocated in 2019 to abortion services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16801/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1462. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the State expenditure, by all categories including GP reimbursement payments of the €9.5 million spent on abortion services in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1463. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to fund abortion services in 2021; the breakdown by all categories of expenditure on abortion services in 2021, including GP reimbursement payments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1562. To ask the Minister for Health what steps are being taken to reduce wait times for genetic testing in Ireland, as the current wait times of up to two years are too long and patients on waiting lists are often being treated for the wrong diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17232/23]