Results 161-180 of 4,317 for speaker:Seán Canney

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials to the committee. I have been listening to the debate since I came into the committee room. I read the Minister of State’s opening remarks - I was in the Dáil while she delivered them. I will return to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight when I am finished here. Like me, the Minister of State gets queries coming into her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I know it is the Department of Finance that makes the decisions but what I and I suppose everybody else finds is that this is a disability issue. I will be meeting both Ministers, Deputies Chambers and Donohoe, shortly in the next room and I will ask them the same question. We are five years talking about it and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: What are the results of it after 12 months? Has anybody come back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: How many have come back? Will it make an appreciable difference? This is probably not widely known by many people. Where is it being targeted? How is it being advertised? How do the people in the Australia, New Zealand, Canada or wherever know about it? Is it a follow-up of graduates? How is it being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: Does the Minister of State know of any changes to the housing adaptation and mobility aids grants that were under review? Has she heard? Will something happen for disabilities?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I listened with interest to the contributions of the witnesses. I thank them for attending. I come from a construction background. I am very frustrated by the lack of new ideas as to how we should get the private housing market, which is dysfunctional, working. I listened with interest to the proposal that we should not spend any of this surplus money we have and that we should be bank...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I believe the witnesses, as independent observers and experts, can look at how we are doing our business, the processes we are using, what that is costing and how we can save money by doing things differently. I go back to the Dublin Port tunnel. It is the example I will give. There was talk at the time that it was not high enough to take trucks, it was leaking and it was going to fall in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I am not asking Professor McMahon to do so. If one takes a number of projects that have never gone anyplace, one will see how much is being spent on them and how many millions of euro have we wasted.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Professor McMahon.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I agree that we need checks and balances but I believe we have gone from correcting what was wrong to overcorrection. Now we end up at a stage where we have probably a worse situation and we are using a lot of resources in it which should be better employed and still have checks and balances. If one takes housing, for example, one should devolve the authority to the local authority to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Ministers. We are talking about all the money we have. It is dangerous times because it is about how we can spend it wisely rather than just throwing it around the place. I said it last year and I agree with the fact that we need to be putting some of this money into a future fund and a climate fund. We also have an opportunity to do something with some of this money to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I also asked about transport.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide additional bus services between Galway and Loughrea to service the demand for public transport in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36013/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the direction by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to all local authorities to withhold planned road improvement tenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36014/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 243. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that some soft play centres that have a coffee shop attached which accounts for 80% of their turnover and the business is a registered cafe and or restaurant with the HSE have been deemed ineligible for the increased cost of business scheme (ICOB2) grant funding despite the fact that they were eligible for ICOB1...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the lack of strategy around regional screen production since the lapse of the s.481 regional uplift; if she will support a dedicated regional strategy as part of Budget 2025 to specifically address the development of the sector in the regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a farmer who is applying for farm assist has to have farm accounts done by an accountant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove nursing home costs from the means assessments for fuel allowance payments to alleviate the burden on families (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36431/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 687. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE is refusing to employ recently graduated mental health nurses, despite the chronic shortage of mental health nursing staff in the health system, leaving graduates with no option but to emigrate to other countries; if his attention has been drawn to the further devastation that this decision will cause to the mental health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for assessment and the waiting time for treatment at the pain clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of people waiting for treatment; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36620/24]