Questions asked 21 total

• Health 5 questions

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses required in order to have the full complement of neurology nurse specialists for University Hospital Galway, which serves a large population in the west of Ireland; the number of neurology nurse specialists that are currently in place; the steps that are being taken in terms of recruitment and allocation of additional nurse numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6520/22]
  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can have their funding transferred to the personalised budget demonstration pilot project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6558/22]
  • 2022-02-08 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]
  • 2022-02-08 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]
  • 2022-02-09 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]
• Agriculture 4 questions

  • 2022-02-10 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]
  • 2022-02-10 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]
  • 2022-02-10 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]
  • 2022-02-10 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]
• Transport 3 questions

  • 2022-02-09 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]
  • 2022-02-09 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]
  • 2022-02-09 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]
• Finance 2 questions

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance the amount expended to date on the help to buy scheme since its inception; the number of first-time buyers that benefited from the scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6557/22]
  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the primary medical certificate scheme per annum since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6566/22]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department provides funding to sports clubs that are engaged in providing activities for persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5941/22]
• Education 1 question

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if, as part of the review of school transport, her Department will consider allowing national school children to receive transport to their parish school as their second school of choice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5887/22]
• Social 1 question

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the difficulties faced by disabled artists trying to access social protection payments and the basic income for artists; if her attention has been drawn to the implications that this payment will have on social protection payments already received by disabled artists, in particular on the fact that while the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media will not means test the basic income for the arts payment, the Department of Social Protection will take the basic income for the arts payment into account for means tested disability payments and as the proposed basic income for the arts payment is €325 per week, this will exceed the income threshold for primary supports and therefore disabled artist will lose their primary supports if they avail of the basic income for the arts scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6541/22]
• Children 1 question

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the Tusla emergency accommodation review which has been delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6698/22]
• Justice 1 question

  • 2022-02-08 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice if she has plans to bring forward legislation to deal with cyber flashing and online harassment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6490/22]
• Environment 1 question

  • 2022-02-09 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]
• Housing 1 question

  • 2022-02-09 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]