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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when people with epilepsy can apply for the free travel pass; if she will outline the process for applying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18168/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: The Irish Epilepsy Association has consistently advocated for the provision of the free travel pass to people with epilepsy who have been deemed ineligible to drive. The Minister has responded very generously to that request and now proposes to make the free travel pass available to people with epilepsy. Will she outline the details of the scheme and particularly how the application process...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the extension of child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education will take effect; the number of students who will benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18169/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Ireland has an exceptional track record in educational attainment, both in the length of time our young people stay in education and the academic standards they achieve during that time. In recent months, the Minister has proposed to extend child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education. When does she think those changes will come into effect? How many students does she think will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister. I am seeking one further point of clarification. Do the parents of children who have reached the age of 18 and are still in full-time education have to go through any verification process, or is this just an automated payment and their current child benefit payment will extend into that additional year?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the roll-out of hot school meals. [7884/24]

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: First of all, I offer my deepest sympathy, that of my family, and that of the Fine Gael family in Galway East to John's wife, Finola, his children, and his siblings Richard and Mary on the passing of an extraordinary man. Many of us in this room, about this time 20 years ago, were involved in our first-ever election campaign seeking to be elected in the local elections of 2004. I imagine...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Earlier, in defending our public service media, the Minister cited the fact that we live in a world full of misinformation, fallacies and conspiracy theories. In Europe right now, we have been experiencing a deeply disturbing, 45-fold increase in measles cases in the last couple of years, and we had 42,000 people infected in 2023 compared to 941 in 2022. A lot of that rise can be attributed...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: The programme for Government contains a commitment to carry out an audit of school buildings across the country to ensure we have adequate capacity for future enrolment. There is a major capacity issue presenting in Athenry. Fortunately, we are seeing significant population growth in Athenry and its environs, but the secondary school capacity in the town is simply incapable of dealing with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: That is correct.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: She is an extraordinary woman and athlete. I thank the Minister of State for being here to listen to the powerful case I want to make for the provision of an indoor sports hall for Seamount College, a superb school in the heart of Kinvara. It is embedded in the life of the Kinvara community and south Galway. It is difficult to understand why a school that will approach enrolment of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I do not take issue with the Minister of State but it is as I expected from the Department. It said a request for a PE hall does not come within the remit of the additional school accommodation scheme, yet it did this 21 times in 21 other schools and in a school just 10 km away from Seamount. Why it decided to single out Seamount for special treatment in denying it this facility is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to hold a referendum to extend voting rights in presidential elections to our citizens living abroad. When will that referendum happen? We are hopelessly out of step with the European Union and the rest of the world in extending any kind of democratic opportunity to our citizens living in Northern Ireland and across the world. These are...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This motion is a cynical, clumsy attempt to gain political capital from a tragic incident. Thankfully, the Irish people are beginning to see Sinn Féin for what it really is, namely, a party linked to criminality that has repeatedly sought to undermine our State and institutions and one that applauded those who took the life of one of our gardaí. It is no secret that officials in...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: -----in seeking to remove a Minister with genuine justice at the heart of her work every day.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State. The Ceann Comhairle outlined earlier the tendency at times for departmental officials to abdicate responsibility in certain policy areas and I think this opening statement attempts to do that at the very beginning. It clarifies that the Minister for Transport and his officials are not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services, but they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this Topical Issue to be taken and the Minister of State for being here at such a late hour. I am delighted to bring proceedings to a close. It has been a very long day in Dáil Éireann. This is a major issue for the people of Loughrea town. It has been for a considerable period ever since July 2021, when Bus Éireann decided to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Athenry town and its environs are thankfully experiencing major population growth. However, it is putting major pressure on enrolment in the post-primary schools in the town. Arising from accurate data pulled together by school leaders in Athenry town, we now know we are potentially going to have a shortage of up to 100 secondary school places next September. This was flagged to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This week we have seen something completely unprecedented in Irish politics whereby Reporters Without Borders and our own National Union of Journalists, NUJ, felt obliged to write to the leader of a political party, Sinn Féin, expressing their alarm about a series of legal actions taken by Sinn Féin members against journalists. The letter states: "... the number of legal actions...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I will finish on this and I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her support. I am working with a community in a small village in south Galway called Kilcolgan. This is essentially a village divided by a national secondary route. TII, incidentally, should also reflect on its role in road safety. I asked our local roads engineer to consider the installation of a pedestrian crossing in a...