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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank our guests for coming in today. From a lay person's point of view, we are talking about economies, budgets and five-year plans but a five-year plan is not worth the paper it is written on in the context of what happened in Ukraine or of Covid, for example. Basically, such plans are for an ideal world, if everything was right. When we have a spike in inflation, all kinds of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: If one considers the surplus taxes that we have coming in now and the fact that some of that is being stored away in the so-called rainy day fund, is that the type of action that a good government should be taking so that we have reserves when we need them? An example of an area about which people are very frustrated is that of house building. Private housing is not being built. That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: What is Mr. Coffey's take on people promising that we are going to build 60,000 houses? How does he see that being done when we cannot even build 30,000 at the moment? That is not a political question. I am asking how the council sees this being done. Will something else have to be sacrificed, for example, retrofitting or something like that? Does Mr. Coffey have any comments on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: The way Mr. Coffey describes some of the difficulties in getting foreign workers or getting our own people who have gone abroad to come back is like a chicken-and-egg situation. We have to provide the houses for them to live in to give them the permanency they need. They would want a guarantee that they would get a house here if they came back.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: This is not a loaded question but it relates to the role of IFAC. Do the witnesses find that nobody listens to what they say when they have concerns about fiscal rules or projections and forecasts that are being made? Are they being listened to by governments? Do they feel that their role is effective? People say the Government is composed of the elected representatives of the people and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I have one last question. I did my leaving certificate in the mid-1970s and for whatever reason, there were no jobs at the time. When I was in the construction industry there was very little work in the early 1980s, then we had the boom and it was followed by the situation in 2008. Should we be doing specific analysis to generate lessons for the future? I include how we performed during...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the guests.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the rules to allow an exemption for landlords in rent pressure zones that have been introduced to vary the 2% increase on the rents they charge where they have not increased the rent for at least two years prior to the zones being introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that children who have transitioned from children's disability services to adult services and are now travelling to St. Joseph’s training centre in Galway city and are living with their families in rural locations in Galway county do not have the bus transport in place, a service they are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 689. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a claim made by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 706. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed staffing complement for the adult mental health service in Tuam primary care service, County Galway; the current staffing levels; the plans for recruitment of additional staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Noise Pollution (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 780. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wind farm noise complaints for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, number of complaints, number of complaints to report sleep disturbance, and number of complaints to report any other health complaint, in each year from 2013 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 781. To ask the Minister for Health the number of case files pertaining to wind turbine shadow flicker for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, in each year from 2013 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42986/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 812. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow patients suffering from long Covid access to hyperbaric oxygenation therapy, where their consultant confirms that this treatment can assist in finding a cure for long Covid; where a chamber for such treatment is available in University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to transition a young person who is under CAMHS when they reach the age of 18 years and are turned over to the adult mental health services, where the only option is to refer the patient to accident and emergency and they are then sent back to outpatients services without any support being offered; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing illness benefit for self-employed people to help if they are sick and unable to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42290/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what percentage of AMS notifications stated that the farmer had sown the wrong crop; his views on whether there is a problem with the crop identification system used in AMS; the cost to his Department of the current AMS imaging system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42291/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Children with Disabilities - UNCRPD Article 7: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: The witnesses are all very welcome. I will start with what is happening in education. In Ms Soraghan's opening statement, she talked about person-centred personalised supports. Is it a very important aspect of education and work life that individuals have personal assistance that suits them and the challenges they face in life? She also said that disabled persons organisations are...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. First, I will speak about a situation that is pertinent to what we are talking about and has arisen in my town, Tuam. The Pieta service has operated there for the past ten years in a purpose built unit, but due to a lack of funding it is now pulling out of its facility that was purpose built with the sweat and tears of local people. The...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the motion from the Independent Group. It is important we look at the hospitality and pub sector in a different light. The pub is part of our tradition and culture and is a tourist attraction for people coming into the country. What I am finding happening on the ground is that pubs are downsizing. Where they had a big space, they have cut it down to a small bar size. They are...