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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the officials for their opening statements. Many small businesses more or less looked at the support scheme and found they could not be eligible for it no matter what they did. To return to the framing of the scheme, it was done in a way, it seemed, that was trying to keep people out rather than get them in. It has left a bad taste and also left businesses trying to recover from an...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: With the pressure now on small businesses - and we are hearing this all the time - what type of research has been or is being done by the Department, perhaps with Revenue, to assess the state of SMEs at the moment? When you look at the returns for SMEs for 2022 or what their estimates might be for 2023, does the Department see a drop, more insolvencies and people going out of business? I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: Do the witnesses think we have come to a stage where we need to put supports in place for the SMEs as a matter of urgency based on what we are being told on the ground and what is being told to us by the representative groups for these organisations? Is there research being done by the Department that tells it that this is not correct? What is it doing to try to find out - perhaps with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I will make one other quick point. Governments take great publicity from the increase in the minimum wage but that has a serious effect on small businesses trying to find the money to pay this increase in wages. For instance, with the PRSI contribution that has to be made, should the bands be adjusted while the minimum wage goes up, and probably rightly so? As well as paying out the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: Would the Department be advising the Government on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I know that. This is where I do not want to hear that somebody else looks after something.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: There is no comfort for SMEs to say that the Department of Social Protection looks after the issue. It all comes into the Exchequer. This is why we, the Regional Group, today proposed in the Dáil that a task force be set up so that all the Departments will knit together to see how they can legitimately help small businesses in a tangible way, rather than have schemes that are not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the broadband connection point at Mountbellow mart will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6475/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce legislation to allow Irish people living abroad the right to vote in elections and referenda in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6101/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the draft design guide for long-term care, to ensure the facilities remain viable and that this is taken into account in determining the maximum size of such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6100/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps an energy bill holder (details supplied) should take when neither they nor their late father received the energy credit on their household account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5653/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the additional flood relief measures his Department can put in place to alleviate flooding of 20 acres of land which occurs each year from August 2023 to January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make changes (details supplied) to exempted development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the fodder support scheme to include a farmer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 453. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the ECCE capitation grant to childcare providers to meet the additional cost of providing the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the different rates of pay given by SOLAS to apprentices who are undertaking the same off-the-job training programme, will get the same qualification and do the same work; if he will address the pay difference paid by SOLAS to electrical apprentices in the engineering industry and electrical industry; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: Nobody can deny that we need to move away from fossil fuels. We have the opportunity to do so by using solar on our roofs, which is less obtrusive and does not affect communities at large. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, described it as a roof revolution which would meet many of our targets. Offshore energy is another area where we are lagging behind. We have the potential to become the new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: I want to raise the issue of wind farms and the proposals to build them across rural Ireland. It has come to County Galway, where, right now, surrounding Tuam, there are four proposed wind farms. There are lots of issues with the wind farms. The turbines have become larger and higher. When the guidelines were introduced in 2006, the span of the blades was 50 m; now it is 186 m, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that householders who install solar panels on their home will not be liable for any tax for the green electricity fed to the grid from the solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/24]

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome that this Bill has been brought forward to Second Stage. As a former lecturer in what is now ATU but formerly was GMIT, in Galway, it is important that we all support this Bill to make sure the opportunities are there for our young people in innovation and research, and that we provide opportunities for companies and small businesses in order that they can get supports to carry out...