178. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will initiate an immediate review of the failures identified in a report (details supplied); if he will bring forward proposals to address each failure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55490/21]
177. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Road Safety Authority may be contravening EU employment law by not facilitating contracts of indefinite duration for driving testers by letting those testers leave after 35 months' continuous employment and then hiring new testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55489/21]
158. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will expedite legislation to amend both the Litter Pollution Act 1997 and the Waste Management Act 1996 to provide a lawful basis for local authorities to use CCTV in detecting and prosecuting illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55946/21]
243. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief scheme for Portumna, County Galway; when the project will be ready for construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55397/21]
729. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set up a forestry development agency to promote and represent the forestry sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54709/21]
728. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a single licence application system to deal with planting, thinning and harvesting to give certainty to the forestry industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54708/21]
727. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a refined timeframe will be provided for the implementation of the MacKinnon Report on the review of the approval process for forestation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54707/21]
726. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will apply the maximum timelines on each application in a functioning licensing system for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54706/21]
603. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the dental services in County Galway that will take on new medical card patients; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many pensioners in County Galway have reported that they have found it difficult to access dental services through the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54296/21]
602. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when chiropody services will be made available in Athenry, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54292/21]
551. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if staff in the Covid-19 compliance unit within the HSE who monitor the hospitality sector are themselves fully vaccinated thus allowing entry to hospitality venues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54002/21]
466. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for fuel allowance by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed given the person in question was found to be only marginally over the income limit. [54207/21]
424. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the status of plans to provide a single campus national school for Gort, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54295/21]
1244. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place in relation to the BEAM scheme in circumstances in which farmers test positive for TB and have their herd restricted and therefore cannot sell cattle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53002/21]
1024. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the introduction of the proposed assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52949/21]
1023. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health his plans to exclude international surrogacy from the upcoming assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52948/21]
1022. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the makes of Covid-19 vaccines now available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52947/21]
951. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health further to his acknowledgement of the findings of recent UCC research which indicated that babies may have survived abortions performed under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, if such incidences occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52637/21]
705. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on a person returning to work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53207/21]
704. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the current situation whereby persons studying four year degree courses online are not able to access SUSI grants as the courses are deemed part time; if he plans to change this regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53147/21]
700. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide funding to students that want to undertake graduate entry medicine programmes available in several Irish universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52958/21]
577. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is fair to include the income of a spouse when assessing applications for disability allowance in view of the additional costs that disabled persons encounter in their daily lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52086/21]
576. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the means threshold for disabled persons when the income of their spouse is taken into account when assessing disability allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52084/21]
401. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the fund available in 2022 for the farm plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53193/21]
254. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider a reduction in the rate of VAT for music and live entertainment performers from 23% to 9% to realign with the hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52080/21]
212. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at least 40 trained driving instructors working in driving test centres are at risk of being let go as their contracts may not be renewed as they do not have permanent employment and this will put pressure on the entire testing system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52944/21]
768. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when chiropody services will be made available in Athenry, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50637/21]
556. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the progress that is being made on the installation of a lift at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50644/21]
308. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport when the Bus Éireann X20 route serving the towns and villages Oranmore, Craughwell, Loughrea and Ballinasloe, County Galway, will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50374/21]
275. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans for the development of Cong Hatchery and associated facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50645/21]
64. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department plans to make funding available under the rural regeneration development fund for the installation of municipal waste water treatment plants in towns and villages in which no such services exist and development cannot progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49401/21]
59. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the value of the dormant accounts fund that is to be available in 2022 to support community development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49405/21]
47. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to increase funding for local improvement schemes in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49402/21]
40. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects to announce the next round of allocations from the rural regeneration development fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49404/21]
7. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to support the development of women’s sheds in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49403/21]
5. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures she will put in place to increase funding already allocated under the rural regeneration and development fund to projects in which the costs have increased substantially due to the unprecedented rise in the cost of materials; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49400/21]
208. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health his plans to recruit four unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts agreed in 2018 for the implementation of the pregnancy prevention programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49979/21]
207. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when he will establish a Ministerial stakeholder group as agreed by him in November 2020 to review and strengthen current risk reduction measures for women of childbearing potential prescribed valproate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49978/21]
585. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the resources necessary to employ an additional 100 neurology nurses across the health service in Ireland including nine additional nurses at University College Hospital, Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49605/21]
478. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the arrangement his Department will put in place to deliver day centre services to older persons in the Loughrea, County Galway catchment area given that St. Brendan’s community nursing unit is unable to restore its daycare service due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49145/21]
330. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in negotiations on the pension entitlements of community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49438/21]
247. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the progress that is being made regarding the review of the school bus service; when the review will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49143/21]
223. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if partial processing of foreign birth registrations can resume at level 5 given that many persons who submitted applications for foreign birth registrations from 1 February 2020 have not been corresponded with and have included important personal documents such as passports along with the applications; if his Department will be refunding the substantial fee of €278 to those persons whose applications have not been processed within 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49650/21]
151. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that diagnostic services for testicles is not available in County Galway; the steps will he take to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48563/21]
767. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the criteria of appeal regarding ANC payments for persons who ticked the wrong box and made a clerical error online but whose difficulties have not been rectified through the appeals process which is only of benefit if farmers were ill or incapacitated at the time but not to those who made a simple error while using the online system; his views on the fact that many farmers have made such errors since they were forced to do the applications online in 2018 such as persons (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of farmers who met the stocking density but who were not paid more than doubled from 109 in 2018 to 239 in 2019; if his attention has been further drawn to the hardship that this lack of payment caused; his further views on whether the current inability of his Department to put in systems to address this problem is a serious administrative flaw; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48109/21]
408. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if the review of the school bus service included an examination of the need to allow students attend their parish national school rather than their nearest school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48037/21]
407. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the progress being made on the review of the school bus service; when she expects the review to be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48036/21]
779. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of psychology services in the Headford and Lackagh primary care service, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46580/21]
700. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that doctors are receiving training in the way in which to perform dilation and evacuation abortions as mentioned in UCD research published in April 2021 in relation to the experiences of abortion providers since the law has changed; if dilation and evacuation abortions are currently taking place in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46232/21]
699. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to research published (details supplied) that drew attention to the fact that there is uncertainty among abortion performing doctors in Ireland regarding the measures to take in the event that an unborn baby survives the abortion procedure; if protocols and guidelines have been put in place to address this humanitarian issue; if so, the precise wording of such protocols and guidelines; if no protocols and guidelines have been put in place, his plans to take measures to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46227/21]