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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale behind only giving carer's benefit to people previously working 18 hours per week, as some applicants were working 16 hours per week at higher per hour averages and were taking home more wages and paying more in PRSI than those on the minimum wage working 18 hours per week; if she will consider amending the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (8 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the research that was carried out in consultation with women who opted not to proceed with a second appointment for termination of pregnancy following the three-day waiting period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (8 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 384. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 649 of 23 November 2021, the number of live births that were registered of babies who survived the abortion procedure; and the number of death certificates that were issued between 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022. [5762/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (8 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that fistula surgery is not performed in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5766/23]

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I wish I had a train to Tuam. I have to drive. Deputy Lowry was to be here but, unfortunately, he had to go home for a funeral. I wish to record that first. I thank the Joint Committee on Autism for bringing forward this motion. I thank Deputy Buckley for sponsoring it and Senator Carrigy for his introduction. Members of the committee have seen this first hand. I note some of them...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I come from a rural constituency and while we do not experience much antisocial behaviour, we do experience antisocial activity such as dumping on private roads and on bogs. There is a bog beside my home that we spent last summer cleaning up. The clean-up cost the community approximately €5,000 and the council approximately...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: It is my Galway accent.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I raise the issue of the Galway city outer bypass. Yesterday, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, stated publicly that this ring-road cannot proceed because we would be breaking laws. This comes on foot of a fresh review that is going to be done by An Bord Pleanála. For the people of Galway, there is much...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I am delighted for Macroom but I am more worried about Galway city. What the Tánaiste is saying is great, but where does the Minister for Transport stand in this? The body which will fund this project is the Department of Transport. Will we, therefore, get a clear Government message on this project? I will repeat what the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, said. He said this road cannot...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of school transport will be completed; the plans that she has in place for the delivery of school transport in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2873/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I wish to get an update from the Minister on when the school transport review will be finalised. The review commenced two years ago and is ongoing. The introduction of free school tickets for certain cohorts last year created a considerable problem for people trying to get on school buses and it is still having ramifications for families.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for the update. The review has been going on since 2021. I know a considerable body of work has to be done, but what I am hearing from the bus operators, Bus Éireann and everybody else is that they need to have a plan in place for next September as to what is being done. They need it in February, rather than it remaining to be decided in March, April or another...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: The biggest problem that happened last year and continues to happen is that we have school buses going to school not full. Children who were getting concessionary tickets and cannot get on these buses, because they are not getting a concessionary ticket now. This was partly due to the fact they applied on time but were refunded their money and had to do something again by July. They had to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the process by which DEIS designation is given to schools to ensure that all schools that cater for students from all backgrounds, including refugees, are properly recognised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2881/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Gaelscoil national and secondary school campus for Athenry, County Galway, will be completed; the stage that it is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2880/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new school (details supplied) for Tuam, County Galway, is expected to be delivered; the stage that it is at presently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2879/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the rules to allow deserted wives who applied for deserted wives benefit between 3 August 1993 and 2 January 1997 be treated in respect of their income threshold similar to people who applied prior to 3 August 1992; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5482/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank everybody who has presented. I will follow on from what we were talking about. The 2012 strategy effectively has not worked. Has it brought forward or progressed matters? What are the most important things the witnesses wish to see in the new strategy? Have they been engaged with in the development of the strategy? Will they expand on the purchase scheme for buying in services...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: First, I welcome the members of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance who are in the Visitors' Gallery listening to the debate this evening. Let us take as an example what happened in Tuam between 1925 and 1961. It took the courage of Catherine Corless to come up with the findings on that. Listen to the outcry among the public at what happened there and in other places. The light of hope...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: He has left now, but first I congratulate the new Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, on his appointment. He was here earlier. I thank Deputies Joan Collins and Pringle and the group for bringing forward this motion. As a county councillor over a long number of years, I saw local development charges being hoisted and foisted onto people going in for planning permission for their houses,...