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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to introduce targeted measures to improve the circumstances of one-parent families in 2023, given that there were no targeted measures for these families in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend social protection legislation to allow persons in receipt of farm assist payments to receive the household benefits package, given that low-income farm families are among those struggling with increasing energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that bonus payments are not being paid to persons in receipt of illness benefit; her views on whether this is permitted and if it is punishing ill persons who were formerly working; if she plans to introduce a mechanism whereby persons on illness benefit who have low means can apply for the bonus payments; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 740. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to develop a new National Child Poverty Plan with a dedicated unit to ensure an integrated and cross-governmental approach to address high levels of poverty in households headed by one parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the reduction in the student contribution of €1,000 is not extended to students who have changed college course and are deemed to be repeating first year even though it is a different course; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty that this is causing for a great number of families where a student has changed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 977. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 978. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims for reimbursement which were made under the primary care reimbursement scheme for termination of pregnancy in each of the years 2019 and 2020. [54446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 993. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports that will be put in place to help private nursing homes by way of an increase in the fee payable under the fair deal scheme to achieve pay equalisation with HSE nursing homes to ensure the sustainability of the private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1152. To ask the Minister for Health the input that midwives, clinicians and women’s health advocates had in framing the HSE recommendation to limit home births to women who live within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this recommendation restricts options for women and families in rural areas around one of the most important life...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1154. To ask the Minister for Health when agency nurses will receive their Covid payment, given that eight months have now passed since the payment was announced and three months have passed since HSE nurses were paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1192. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases where dental patients with medical cards are being taken off dentists’ medical card patient lists due to the patient not attending the dentist within the past three years and when they attended the dentist in 2019 but were unable to do so in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid restrictions; if this is permissible...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: 1194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient and inpatients waiting for pain management in the Saolta University Health Care Group region; the length of time that these persons have been waiting; his plans to address waiting times for pain management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55304/22]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. I will preface my remarks by declaring my interest in that I am a landlord and I have some properties we have rented. If we keep demonising landlords who are renting out properties in the way we are doing, we will find we will be in bigger trouble than we are right now. I understand there are about 500 properties in Galway that are up for...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I am delighted the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is here to listen to us. I am not going to tell him what is wrong, because I think he knows himself what is wrong. There is no point in me repeating what everyone else says. What we must do is look at a few issues and see how we can improve on delivery. The very first issue I will address is the planning system. I give the Minister...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. The amount of money involved in the budget can be overwhelming. When you read documents and reports, you get confused. I am concerned when Revenue bring forward a set of figures that are different from the Department's set of figures and are working from a different base. There needs to be common approach to how reporting is done, be it from...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: Does that money get spent?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: It is an ongoing-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: From the Department's point of view, what would be the pluses and minuses of having indexation?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: Is there a conflict between increasing social welfare and the lower income workers who feel they would be better off not working because student grants and such like would be easier to get? Is the budget doing enough with regard to the take-home pay of people who are working to ensure it is of benefit to them? Is there a fine line? How do the Departments monitor or do analysis on that? I...