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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,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the 75 ghost housing estates nationwide; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of houses and location of each ghost estate broken down by local authority area; the plans that are in place to bring these houses into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5002/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Canney: Yes. We do not have a quorum.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: 301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on grants for 2023 (details supplied). [4358/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: 302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a matter regarding negotiations between football clubs (details supplied). [4359/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: 303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding that was allocated to a sporting club (details supplied) in 2022. [4360/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the mortgage to rent scheme; if it is working as designed; if his attention has been drawn to the fact a bank (details suppled) is withdrawing from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3985/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: 700. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the transport support Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4361/23]

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this important issue and I thank the Government for acceding to the Regional Group’s request for this debate. The report sets out a large number of issues and is a damning indictment of the services, which are putting children’s safety at risk. It is clear that poor clinical governance is a national issue across the health system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Seán Canney: I have been listening intently to what has been said by the witnesses. For me as a public representative on the disability matters committee I often hear, and feel, the frustration that here we have something that can work, and will work, but is not being rolled out other than through the grace of God and a few pounds from the "Late Late Show" and a few other things like that. It seems...