Results 1,421-1,440 of 4,339 for speaker:Seán Canney

Priority Questions: Community Care (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I want to raise a very important issue that has arisen in the past year in Loughrea, County Galway, where we have a purpose-built community nursing home with a day case centre as part of it. When Covid came, the day care centre, Seven Springs, was closed. To date, there has been much confusion as to what is happening there. The service in the centre has been resumed one day a week and on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 102. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the long-delayed x-ray facilities to be up and running in Tuam primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51143/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 110. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a national screening programme for structural heart disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51147/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 112. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the long waiting lists for treatment due to a chronic shortage of radiation therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51145/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that he is putting in place to deliver the specialist neurology required to meet the current demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51146/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that medical card holders can avail of dentistry services which are currently unavailable at this time due to an ongoing dispute between dentists and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51144/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for their very enlightening opening remarks. I listened to the questions Deputy Ellis put. Members find that at times, there is a huge difficulty for people with disabilities, in that there are no clear pathways as to how they can get the supports they need to live independently. I do not know how this can be dealt with but there is a repeated request for people to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: To clarify something, is there a way of measuring what is going on and how it is evolving? Is there data to back that up or is it just a softer approach than that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: That last contribution was great. It is important that we continue to highlight the social return on investment, and that if money is being invested, people are benefitting from it and the social return is there. I say well done.

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue and I compliment Deputy Cairns and the Social Democrats for introducing this motion. As a Deputy living and based in Tuam, the Tuam mother and baby home has been a focus of attention over a number of years. The discovery of 796 babies buried in a mass grave is something that shocked the world. This watershed moment came...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I was listening to the discussions and presentations from my office before I came here. I was a bit late for the match. This discussion is interesting, as Deputy Boyd Barrett alluded to, and many issues are being talked about that we should be talking about for longer and more effectively. Based on what Professor Kinsella is talking about, we may be letting the green-energy revolution...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: The Christmas bonus is the example one would hold up as a once-off that has become expected. If it did not happen next Christmas or the one after there would be war. We have brought in a huge amount of measures this year that are one-offs. Whether we can afford to keep them is the question. I think of the disability sector where the Indecon report said the additional living costs for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of building control officers who are employed by each local authority; his views that the numbers are sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason part-time students are excluded from the reduction in student fees outlined in the recent Budget; if has attention has been drawn to the fact that many students are trying to progress their careers in difficult circumstances by pursuing part-time education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that CORU social care worker registration status has not been given to the BA in professional social care (disability) degree from Open Training College courses for students who completed the course in 2020; the steps that students who completed this degree course in 2020 can take to get registered as a social care worker; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 697. To ask the Minister for Health his views on patients in public nursing homes being charged €100 for transport between one hospital and another for a scope, especially in light of the removal of inpatient hospital charges; if he recognises many such patients are already contributing much of their non-contributory State pension towards their care and are left with little real...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available to a child (details supplied) with Down Syndrome and moderate or severe hearing loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51569/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 791. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE roles that will be put forward for social care worker registration; and the level three qualifications that will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: 873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his rationale for requiring farmers applying for the new beef suckler scheme 2023 to be Bord Bia quality-assured given that the Bord Bia audit is another cross-compliance check for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51565/22]