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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses. They have given us an insight into how they are living through this process and the issues arising, which are horrible. This committee has had many meetings and is determining the best way to progress disability services. Having listened this morning, I believe the frustration of parents of children with Down’s syndrome relates to the fact that everything is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank our three guests for their forthright answers, not least in regard to recruitment. I was very interested when Ms Holmes stated that more administrative staff are needed to support therapists and to let therapists focus on their expertise. That is something we should take up given that if a therapist is involved in administrative work, that is a waste of a valuable and scarce...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister for that reply and I acknowledge the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is working under great pressure to get the supports in place. Farmers have the problem that the announcements have been made over recent months but the call for the funding and the application process is still not in place and this is the biggest concern they have. In looking forward to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: First, I want to associate myself with the remarks made on the atrocity that happened in Texas. I wish to raise an issue in relation to farmers. Last Monday at 7 p.m., I met with over 300 farmers at an event organised by the Galway Irish Farmers' Association, IFA, in my own parish in Corofin. It was organised by Mr. Stephen Canavan, chairman of the Galway IFA. The mood of farmers at...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Vice Chair and the witnesses who are with us. When we talk about the whole area of public sector reform and sectoral performance reports, one of the things that is close to my heart is equality in terms of disability budgeting. The reporting on that was introduced in 2018. Are the witnesses satisfied that the allocated expenditure is being spent within the Votes? Is it making...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I refer to green budgeting and how the reporting of its effectiveness will be rolled out. Are there any lessons the Department of Transport or the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications should be picking up from the equality budgeting to see if we can have better and more accurate reporting? We are now putting a lot of money into retrofitting and budgeting for that type...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: In the context of a budgetary oversight mechanism, is the fact that we have an annual budget - we do not have rolling budgets in many cases - hampering the performance of the money that goes into budgets? A Deputy alluded to the fact that it shows how much money was spent on home help. The reality on the ground is that we cannot fulfil the hours needed to be fulfilled. Does the Department...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: Finally, if I have a minute, I wish to go back to the capital plan, for instance, the national development plan. Is there a master plan that shows, over the lifetime of the national development plan, what projects will be at the different stages along the way each year so that we can track progress or lack thereof in these projects within each Department? Let us consider, for instance, the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: Does that capital project tracker flag up delays in projects so that people will know that projects that have been delayed will have to be accelerated to get them completed? How is that monitored? Is it just a reporting mechanism? If a programme sets out what is to be done over ten years, it will be monitored. I have not looked at the tracking system but it probably just shows progress...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I thank the Vice Chair for her indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I am not a member of the committee, but I thought it was important that I came down here to offer to my support to the witnesses. I was listening to them on the screen before I came down here; I had been doing something else. If we get anything out of today, we get a sense that there is total frustration. I know this myself on the ground. Mr. Kearney has hit the nail on the head on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a document on her website which states that subjects such as laundry, needlework and cookery are for girls; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this undermines the role of females in society; if she plans to change these rules; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report into the operation of HSE MyOptions produced by a group (details supplied) which details severe inadequacies in the provision of information or counselling by staff on issues aside from accessing abortion; the way that he plans to address these concerns and ensure that MyOptions offers a full range of options to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that medical scientists working for the HSE receive parity of pay and career progression with clinical biochemists; his plans to solve the current impasse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 May 2022)

Seán Canney: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when the nine neurology nurses specialists needed in University Hospital Galway will be recruited; if his attention has been drawn to patients that are unnecessarily waiting longer for diagnosis and treatment as a result of this shortfall in the western regional centre for neurology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26016/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I have been listening to what has been said and I have heard a number of words such as "exploring", "reviewing" and "piloting". Mr. Flanagan spoke about the fragmented approach to the delivery of employment services for people with disabilities. As a public representative, if I was approached by people with disabilities about finding work, which I have been, I would not know where to steer...

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I wish to say a few words about this in the short time that I have. In my mind, just transition has been explained by Deputy Leddin and others as doing something in society that is correct and right to make sure that our communities grow and that there is enterprise in them. I agree with all of that. We should have more resilient communities but we need to transition to that and we cannot...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Seán Canney: First, I think we have to stand back from what has been said here. We have to stop blaming politicians and past decisions that were made. The biggest problem we have now is that we are giving money to developers. We should not be giving money to developers. Housing should not be developer-led; it should be development-led. If the €450 million in funding was made available in my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Seán Canney: I apologise that I had to leave earlier to go to the Chamber. I am not a member of this committee. What we have been discussing this morning is very much in line with what we have been discussing at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, of which I am a member. We see the same problems happening. One of the issues that comes to mind is the individualisation of supports for people,...