272. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he will waive capital gains tax on second-hand homes which could be brought to the market or willed to family members to help the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14990/22]
239. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to introduce tax credits for owner occupiers and social landlords who have paid or are paying levies to fund the remediation of defects against their tax liabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14131/22]
224. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance the steps that are being taken to ensure that motorists are not paying unnecessarily high prices for petrol and diesel, and to ensure that cuts in excise imposed by the Government are passed on to consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14987/22]
129. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of existing offshore licensing extensions currently under consideration by his Department; the length of time these applications have been in his Department in a tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14133/22]
128. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will expedite an application for a lease undertaking for an area (details supplied) which is currently with his Department given the present war time situation and the risk to energy security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14132/22]
104. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that can be taken against employers that did not give the 18 March bank holiday to staff; if his attention has been drawn to such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14217/22]
403. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include the equine sector in future TAMS on farm investment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13651/22]
341. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if she will extend the rules of eligibility to allow primary school children eligible for school transport to attend their second nearest school. [12681/22]
340. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if she will reduce the minimum distance for primary school children to be eligible for school transport to ensure as many students as possible are catered for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12680/22]
339. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education when the steering group will be issuing its next interim report on the review of school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12679/22]
221. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied that the necessary electric vehicle charging infrastructure is being rolled out across the country to meet the increasing demand for owners of electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5192/22]
108. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will provide funding to support the local improvement scheme which is presently funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12070/22]
52. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport the progress is being made with the proposal to provide a bus lane from Claregalway to Galway city along the N83; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12073/22]
48. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if his Department has received an application from Galway County Council for funding for the inner relief road for Tuam, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12072/22]
40. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to an issue between the ESB and electrical contractors in which the ESB is preventing electrical contractors from connecting electric vehicle chargers directly to the meter board in circumstances in which a connection to the meter cabinet is not possible even though the works are being carried out in compliance with the ESB protocols; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5193/22]
23. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will alter the criteria for the active travel scheme to include villages and settlement centres that do not have speed limits which would benefit enormously from the scheme to safely link schools and amenities by means of footpaths and cycleways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12071/22]
4. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport when he expects the all-Ireland rail review to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12069/22]
194. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will include supplementary allowance payments to persons who are amputees who work and have medical cards granted on a discretionary basis to assist in the purchase of prosthetic limbs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11897/22]
193. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a full breakdown of the areas being covered in the research being carried out by a person (details supplied) as part of the three year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11896/22]
192. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the tender for an audiology testing facility for Tuam primary care centre; when the testing facility will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/22]
62. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if private coach and bus operators will be included in the scheme to reduce fares by 20% on all public service obligation routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11937/22]
56. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport the number of electric vehicle home chargers that have been grant aided by his Department in each year since the commencement of the scheme; the cost of the scheme on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11975/22]
55. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport the number of electric charging points that are now operational in public areas in each local authority area broken down by fast chargers and ordinary chargers in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11974/22]
54. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport his plans to provide the necessary charging points required in public spaces to support persons who are purchasing electric vehicles in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11973/22]
50. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he plans to introduce the long overdue scheme to pay persons for the excess energy generated by solar panels fitted in their homes which is feeding into the grid; if payment will be backdated to July 2021; the rate of payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11976/22]
867. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he intends to lift the mandate for mask wearing in national schools for children and teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9993/22]
791. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the longest time that a child who is classified as semi-urgent, urgent and immediate has been waiting for an MRI scan at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9596/22]
790. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when free general practitioner care for seven- and eight-year-olds will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9595/22]
772. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he plans to establish a working group under the joint auspices of the national dementia office and the integrated care programme to determine the needs and solutions to provide persons with Huntington’s disease and their families a good standard of care in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9497/22]
738. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the way he plans to deal with the severe lack of podiatrists available to care for persons with diabetes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9345/22]
733. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the funding that was provided to a group (details supplied) in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9331/22]
478. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the status of the provision of accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9810/22]
416. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education when she will introduce an amendment to the public service superannuation scheme to allow access to the scheme for school secretaries and school caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/22]
221. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for urgent and non-urgent referrals to the symptomatic breast cancer clinic at University Hospital Galway; the number of patients that are on the urgent and non-urgent referral waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8621/22]
136. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the status of the summer work scheme application submitted by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8595/22]
501. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if social welfare payments can now only be collected at post offices; the rationale behind the decision; the measures put in place to ensure that disabled persons can access their payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7890/22]
261. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost to put in place the M50 toll; the cost to construct the infrastructure for same; the revenue that was ring-fenced to recoup the costs; the number of years over which it was recouped; the way that revenue continues to be collected; his plans to relocate the toll from its current location to beyond the Blanchardstown exit given that there appears to be evidence of traffic avoiding tolling to get to Blanchardstown (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8248/22]
212. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applications for the warmer homes scheme are taking over two years to assess; if he will provide an update on the measures he has put in place to expedite this process to ensure an early delivery of much needed insulation works to homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7891/22]
176. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider amending the sheep welfare scheme to allow farmers who were forced out of the scheme for a year due to significant ill health or other exceptional circumstances to re-enter the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5970/22]
157. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a new licensing regime for single forestry applications to include planting, thinning and felling of forests to give certainty to farmers and persons involved in the forestry business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5971/22]
148. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he plans to put in place to support farmers in relation to the high cost of inputs including fertiliser due to the extraordinary increase in the price of inputs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5967/22]
107. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers who make simple errors in online applications are not having their problems rectified within his Department’s appeals process, including, for example, farmers who fail to tick an areas of natural constraint, ANC, box on a basic payment scheme, BPS, application, who are not having this simple matter rectified by the section involved on appeal; if his attention has been drawn to the number of farmers who have lost significant amounts of funding as a result of this inflexibility; if a review will be conducted into the number of such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5968/22]
151. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that full medical cards are provided to persons that have suffered from thalidomide irrespective of their means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6918/22]
72. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will remove the means testing for persons that suffer from thalidomide that are applying for housing adaptation grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6935/22]
55. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will cease the practice of using LED lights in all public lighting due to the negative impact it is having on some citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6932/22]
54. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will change the rules in relation to the motor tax for commercial vehicles to allow sons and daughters of elderly farmers avail of the reduced motor tax charge given that they use the commercial vehicle to undertake farming activities to support their parents that cannot drive and rely on this support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6917/22]
48. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the profound negative effects that LED lighting is having on some persons and that they are now prisoners in their homes as a result of the roll out of LED public lighting and all associated LED lighting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6934/22]
44. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he plans to publish a national hydrogen strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6933/22]
760. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the cost to the State of the motorised transport grant scheme per annum since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6567/22]
758. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when a drug used to treat hyperemesis gravidarum (details supplied) will be made available on the medical card and drugs payment scheme to women; if his attention has been drawn to the additional financial hardship this lack of funding is placing on women suffering from this extremely debilitating condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6560/22]