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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I was listening to the discussion. I will raise two issues. The first point relates to what was said about the upheaval within the banking sector in various parts of the world at the moment and how it might affect the global economy. Do the witnesses envisage any risk to Ireland in terms of our corporation tax take in the next year or two years as a result of anything that might be going...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee to discuss these topics. It is interesting listening to Deputy Healy-Rae. I have one question on the banking sector. We have the potential to develop the credit union network as another force in banking. How supportive is the Central Bank of achieving that, so we end up with a situation where the credit union movement can operate as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: When Mr. Madouros says that they have the capacity, is the issue that they are not lending or that there is not the demand for loans? Are people being prudent in the uncertain markets we have with inflation and so on? People are standing back to see where we are going to level out after all we have been through between Covid and the Ukraine war. Is there a sense that people are pulling...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I will finish on the credit unions. There is the League of Credit Unions but there are also individual entities, wherever they are. In my constituency there is St. Jarlath's Credit Union, which covers Tuam, and there is a large hinterland comprising Athenry, Gort and Galway city. There is also Naomh Breandan Credit Union in Loughrea. They all work as entities on their own. Is that a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: I have a question on inflation and the effect that can have on Government expenditure, especially in the capital area where we have the national development plan and many projects that we are hoping to do over the next ten years. We might not get the same bang for our buck as we did two years ago with the inflation that has happened. In the next two to three years do the witnesses see...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: There is much food for thought there. There is a lot of nuance here and many challenges for us. I thank the witnesses for their openness and hopefully we will engage with them again.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will introduce a pension scheme for An Post workers employed since 1984 when An Post was changed to a semi-State company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12737/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that landlords whose property is located within a rent pressure zone and where the rent was historically low cannot now raise the rent to match other rented properties in the area and are being penalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12874/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [13539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether counting gross income instead of net income in fuel allowance means assessment is fair, given that net income is a fairer representation of the actual weekly income of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13700/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the exclusion of women born before 1 September 1946 from the total contributions approach to contributory pension, which allows for up to 20 years home caring periods, represents discrimination on the grounds of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the exclusion of people not in receipt of a social protection payment from the sale of residence disregard, particularly in circumstances in which the treatment of this disregard has resulted in a large overpayment arising against the estate of a deceased person is unfair; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if people who did not qualify for the fuel allowance in advance of starting a community employment scheme can now access the payment as the thresholds have changed, or if there is a mechanism in place to allow this to happen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13806/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 1095. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the proposals by the Firearm Expert Committee to impose additional conditions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 1111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commission a fully independent review of how to strengthen and reform the Data Protection Commission to ensure that it is fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13814/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 1149. To ask the Minister for Health if plans exist to remove the temporary prefab buildings of the neurology unit in GUH; the plans that exist to allow neurology consultants to continue to see their patients; where this will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12316/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electric Vehicles (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 1308. To ask the Minister for Health when the electric charging point located at unit 4, Merlin Park Hospital, Galway, which was installed in 2022, will be available for use by the public and employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12854/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 1551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of difficulties experienced by farmers applying for the fodder scheme who were informed online that their applications were submitted and were later told that the application had not been received (details supplied); the number of farmers that are affected by this problem; his plans to address such problems; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Canney: 1572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) whose REAP scheme ended in January 2023 can apply for the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13446/23]