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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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (16 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the fees paid to optometrists providing eyecare under her Department’s adult eyecare schemes are inadequate and do not reflect the cost of providing a modern eye examination; the steps being taken to address this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22294/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (16 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the fees paid to optometrists providing eyecare under the HSE adult eyecare schemes are inadequate, do no not reflect the cost of providing a modern eye examination and have not been increased in more than 20 years; if he is further aware that the Department of Health has made submissions for funding to his Department and is awaiting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the second ASD classroom for a school (details supplied) will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21499/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Cards (14 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when medical card supports will be in place for survivors of residential institutional abuse (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21578/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (14 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 607. To ask the Minister for Health how many patients are on the podiatry waiting list in Galway; how long the current waiting time is; if the interval between appointments has changed in the past year; if there are currently any unfilled clinical positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 614. To ask the Minister for Health what assistance is available to a child with molar incisor hypo mineralisation which requires root canal treatment, extraction, braces and aligners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21646/24]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the next weekly division time.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Brian Stanley - To discuss funding for youth services in counties Laois and Offaly. Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the increased administrative burden on small and rural-based community employment schemes. Deputy Violet-Anne...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak about housing. I will first wish the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, well in his position. It is the first time I have met him across the floor. As a fellow coming from the west of Ireland, I know he will do his best to bring houses there. I will start with the affordable housing scheme. I spoke to the Ministers, Deputies Michael McGrath and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome all our guests. It is great to have them here to have a chat about the financial matters that are most pressing. Following on from the discussion about housing, one of the biggest failings in housing at the moment relates to the fact the private sector is not functional, and it will not be functional until we step in to help it become functional by providing it with funding or...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I accept that progress is being made and I fully support the help-to-buy scheme, but analysis will show the numbers of, for instance, houses that have been built under the shared equity scheme and where they have been built. County Galway is the second largest county but there is only one private housing scheme within it. When any other developer is buying a site or looking for one to...