1149. Deputy Seán Canney asked 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]
1111. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice 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]
1095. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice 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]
850. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for 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]
846. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for 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 statement on the matter. [13735/23]
845. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for 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]
843. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for 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]
421. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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]
156. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications 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]
354. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is his intention to increase the payment for the sheep welfare scheme to €30 per ewe, as requested by the farming organisations due to the poor prices for sheep and the increase in the cost of feedstuffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12084/23]
342. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he has sanctioned funding for the proposal to refurbish an existing building at the Loughrea Health Campus, Loughrea, County Galway; if so, how much funding has been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12153/23]
341. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE has designated the purpose-built Seven Springs Day Centre in Loughrea, County Galway as part of the community nursing unit in Loughrea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12152/23]
151. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish the review of the Housing Aid for Older People Housing Adaptation Grants and Mobility Aids Grants to reflect the additional costs of the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11920/23]
139. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the Croí Cónaithe scheme to include vacant houses that can be refurbished for rental purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11919/23]
127. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will regularise the funding to support Galway County Council to bring their local government fund in line with comparable counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11922/23]
122. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase funding to develop water treatment plants for towns and villages; if he will provide funding to allow existing waste water treatment plants in private estates to be taken in charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11923/23]
87. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will suspend planning applications for onshore wind turbine developments until the planning guidelines for such developments are updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11921/23]
57. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed Wool Council; the terms of reference for this council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9695/23]
49. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is his intention to increase the payment for the sheep welfare scheme to €30 per ewe, as requested by the farming organisations, due to the poor prices for sheep and the increase in the cost of feedstuffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9691/23]
42. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will accept all 46,000 applicants to the current tranche of the ACRES scheme; the plans he has to introduce a gap payment to farmers locked out of the ACRES scheme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9693/23]
20. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the influence the EPA report on targets to re-wetlands and the proposed reductions in herd numbers will have on policy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9694/23]
10. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on how farmers should dispose of cuttings from hedge trimming on their land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9692/23]
4. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate a review of cases where farmers failed to tick the areas of natural constraint, ANC, box, did not receive the payment and were subsequently unsuccessful on appeal, as this was a simple administrative error which resulted in a 100% penalty and came at a time when his Department had recently introduced the need to do applications online, and many farmers forced to do these applications online first ticked a box stating there was no change to their application and then subsequently did not receive their ANC payments; if he accepts that part of this problem stems from the change to the online system, and the poor design and phrasing of questions in the new system; if he recognises that because these payments were for marginal land, predominantly in the west of the country, the farmers affected were mostly in poorer agricultural regions and therefore more heavily reliant on these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9696/23]
533. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting for fistula surgery in UHG; the current wait time; the steps that are being taken to reduce this waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10817/23]
229. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he will include Parkinson's disease as a qualifying condition for the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11048/23]
81. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport when a new tranche of funding will be made available for the safer access to schools scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2882/23]
662. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the plan for a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10156/23]
626. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when front-line workers employed by a company (details supplied) will be paid the Covid bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8329/23]
411. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when secretarial support will be provided at the neurology clinic in UHG; if he is aware that 400 patients who have been seen at the clinic have not had their letters sent to their GPs updating them on patient information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8035/23]
406. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when front line workers in an organisation (details supplied) will be paid the Covid bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7986/23]
405. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when front line workers in an organisation (details supplied) will be paid the Covid bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7985/23]
218. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the graded/banded employment will be approved for workers in Waterways Ireland following the decision by Waterways Ireland to allow such grading and banding of employees for remuneration reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7981/23]
778. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when he will publish the report of the three-year review into Ireland's abortion law in view that he has now received the report. [7186/23]
777. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the way the cyber-attack and Covid-19 so severely impacted the collection of notifications for abortions in 2021 but not the requests for reimbursements related to abortions paid to GPs. [7185/23]
776. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the steps that his Department and or the HSE has taken to ensure all abortions carried out legally in the State are properly notified to the Minister for Health in accordance with section 20 of the Act and made publicly available in the annual report, following on from the underreported abortions in the official report issued in 2022. [7184/23]
753. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he can provide clarity for pregnant women on the process of how to obtain cariban through the drugs payment scheme, given that the drug is necessary to prevent extreme nausea and vomiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7138/23]
351. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the difficulty that the changes to summer courses will have for teachers as they now require online courses to have 8 hours synchronous time, increasing to 15 hours by 2025; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties that this is causing for teachers who have childcare responsibilities during the summer; the rationale for the change; if it will result in fewer teachers being able to access summer courses; if she will reconsider the change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6991/23]
324. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the changes proposed by her Department to professional development courses for primary school teachers outside of school time; the impact it is having on teachers; the consultation that was had with an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6618/23]
243. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will remove the planning requirements from the short-term accommodation register given that it will have a very negative consequence as many short-term lets cannot afford the cost of the planning process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7095/23]
240. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the status of R2-zoned residential lands; if they will be liable for the residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6989/23]
59. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will consider amending the SUSI terms and conditions to ensure that students whose parents were working and became ill and accessed illness benefit are not discriminated against in the system, in that if the household income is low enough, they will be able to access the special rate of grant aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2878/23]
386. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the reason that fistula surgery is not performed in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5766/23]
384. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 649 of 23 November 2021, the number of live births that were registered of babies who survived the abortion procedure; and the number of death certificates that were issued between 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022. [5762/23]
383. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the research that was carried out in consultation with women who opted not to proceed with a second appointment for termination of pregnancy following the three-day waiting period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5761/23]
258. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind only giving carer's benefit to people previously working 18 hours per week, as some applicants were working 16 hours per week at higher per hour averages and were taking home more wages and paying more in PRSI than those on the minimum wage working 18 hours per week; if she will consider amending the current criteria in view of the severe shortage of available carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5633/23]
202. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if her Department will offer the same financial support to registered post-primary teachers to upskill in order to teach home economics, as is currently being offered to registered teachers to teach mathematics, physics and Spanish, given that home economics is currently the second-most difficult subject to find a teacher for, ahead of mathematics and Spanish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5707/23]