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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: ...to speak about housing. I will first wish the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, well in his position. It is the first time I have met him across the floor. As a fellow coming from the west of Ireland, I know he will do his best to bring houses there. I will start with the affordable housing scheme. I spoke to the Ministers, Deputies Michael McGrath and Donohoe, about this in...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Canney: ...them some closure on that part of their lives. We need justice, reparation and redress. We are talking about human beings, Irish people and equal citizens, who, through no fault of their own, landed in these institutions. As others have said, they were people of the working class and people of little means. They are the bravest people we have in this country because of what they...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: ...so is not right for the environment; yet, in the village of Corofin, which is in my parish and which is famous for football, we cannot build any houses other than one-off houses. We have a large tract of land right in the heart of the village but we cannot build on it because of an An Bord Pleanála decision in 2008 that stipulated that any development would be premature until a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedge Cutting (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the time for the planting of whitethorn hedging until net planting season due to the current state of groundwater on land and the scarcity of the hedging roots under the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7407/24]

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]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Canney: ...other sites of their own and not with another global company. It is a worry that we could very quickly see a decrease in FDI here if we do not get our act together. Dr. McQuinn spoke about the Land Development Agency. We know what the problems are. I certainly think the State needs to step in a lot more quickly to try to get the private sector going so we can have houses that people...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Canney: 309. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the rules regarding the imposition of the residential zoned land tax on land used for active farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56438/23]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I begin by informing the House that I am a landlord and have an interest in this subject. The problem facing us at the moment is the supply of houses. The local authorities have been commissioned to deliver social housing and we now see them being commissioned to deliver affordable houses and other types of homes. That will help people....

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (12 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: ...to the Minister and the power will be taken away from councillors if they do not do what they are told. That is happening a lot in our local authorities. Often local area plans are zoning land for residential or other purposes that will never become available. This creates additional costs for construction by reducing the amount of land that is available. There is talk about increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: 601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he would reconsider the treatment of established woodland under the ACRES scheme, as currently farmers who have extensive parts of their land under established woodland are not getting sufficient benefit for this environmental benefit from the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54589/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: ...that has been announced for the Shannon Callows by the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. While the scheme is welcome, there are a number of issues arising, including the fact that some farmers whose land was flooded may not be visible from satellite pictures but it was saturated to such an extent that the grass could not be harvested. These farmers may be excluded from the scheme. Likewise,...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...area plans, we have what we call the core strategy. I do not know what a core strategy is all about other than I can see from a construction background that we are actually limiting the amount of land we can zone in a local area plan. Therefore, we are keeping the price of the development land and of the house high and keeping it unaffordable, the net result being that no houses are...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...and I will come to that again. If we are doing a local area plan in any town, we need to make sure it is relevant, allows for development, and is not just a desktop exercise where we zone land because we see it is in a nice place. That land might never become available for any reason and there is no due diligence done on the fact that this land, that is now being zoned and will create...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...the environment. When I was Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW, we initiated a number of flood relief schemes, including in Cork city, Galway city, Ballinasloe, south Galway Gort lowlands, the Shannon Callows and Lough Funshinagh, which is held up with legislation so I do not know where it is. These projects are not moving at all. The reason they are not moving is they...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...has been dealt with. If we have good infrastructure and good, modern hospitals, the HSE will be able to attract staff. The staff it needs to attract are those who have gone to foreign lands, having got their education here, be they nurses, doctors or therapists. They fly the nest and off they go but if we want to attract them back, we need to have inviting facilities for them, not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (21 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will fund the purchase of land to install an off-road set-down area at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51100/23]

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

Seán Canney: 397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a young farmer who started farming in 2023, who has a herd number and who applied for BISS in 2023 and who has leased land for five years in January 2023 can enter the new tranche of ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50731/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...Parks and Wildlife Service is standing on the riverbank as the OPW is doing it and it will stop the OPW if it is using the wrong machinery. We have a perfect storm. Moreover, Waterways Ireland wants to keep the water level high for boating for the summer. The ESB in 2017 was generating 2% of the national input into our grid but it could be less than that now. We have gone beyond the...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...up a glass of water at times. The other thing that came out of that particular conference was the fact that the private housing market is dysfunctional and continues to remain so. The cost of land, of building houses and of making a profit for the developers - whether we like it or not - and the price they can get for houses is not sustainable. The other issue is that they cannot get...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: ...my friends, Bertie, Helen, Denise and David, who are visiting the Dáil today. The issue I will home in on first in reference to the Finance (No. 2) Bill is agriculture. The residential zoned land tax has been a source of much confusion, concern and anxiety for farmers and people who own land adjacent to towns in which the zoning has come into play. The tax has been deferred and...