Results 301-320 of 3,908 for speaker:Seán Canney

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 549. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to patients who have to travel to hospital for treatments who have no access to public transport and are not capable of driving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44939/23]

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on what is a very emotive issue for everyone in the House. I welcome the people in the Gallery. On a normal day they have other things to do to look after the work and the services they are providing. Everyone knows that if we do not pay our workers properly they will go where they will get better pay for doing the same work. That is the kernel of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: People are needed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: On the rates revaluation happening in County Galway, I was contacted by a businessman who submitted appeals in respect of three of his offices last November. He did not receive a response. Last week, he was in Tuam for a public consultation and was told by a person from the Valuation Office that it had no record of the appeals. When he met a more senior person, that man apologised...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: They do not have the resources.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget again this evening. There are a number of areas I want to home in on. There is all of the spending that will happen in health and we are talking about all the money that will be spent on disability and mental health, even though I would challenge much of that. However, the biggest problem we face right now is the strike pending in the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I will set out a few different things in the budget, which I would like to comment on. First, I welcome the tax relief for mortgage holders. However, I cannot understand how somebody with a mortgage of less than €80,000 is getting no relief. That is something we need to look at in the Finance Act. I welcome that additional funding is going into childcare supports. We will wait to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: The first thing I would say is that the local authorities submitted their applications in September 2022. We are now gone 13 months and maybe in another two months we might have a decision. That is not the end of the story. It is only then that the local authorities will start the procurement of consultants, the design and the procurement of sites. We will probably see these treatment...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I want to change the subject matter to housing, which is a very pressing matter in this country. My concern relates to the lack of wastewater treatment plants in our towns and villages in our country. I know that back in April 2022, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage announced €50 million in funding for wastewater treatment plants. He asked every local authority...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses very much for coming in and presenting, and to Mr. McLoughlin who is on the video. It is such an interesting conversation to get the international world view of what is happening and how lucky we are in this country in lots of ways. The thing I most wanted to ask is with regard to the SDGs. They are something everybody has committed to but we have failed to reach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I have to go but I thank Senator Feighan and Senator McGreehan for their co-operation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: The former Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student teachers who have completed 240 ECTS in home economics and Irish secondary school teaching at a college (details supplied) and achieved a level 8 degree, are now qualified to teach; if this can be confirmed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43531/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to the provision of school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to the provision of school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43542/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to the provision of school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the allocation model used to distribute HSCL to secondary schools in the DEIS scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43587/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an appropriate secondary school placement will be found for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that is being made with the provision of a municipal wastewater treatment plant for Craughwell, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43537/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will accept applications submitted to the ACRES scheme by a planner which for technical reasons were never properly accepted by his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43409/23]