Questions asked 11 total

• Finance 3 questions

  • 2022-03-22 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]
  • 2022-03-22 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]
  • 2022-03-22 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]
• Environment 2 questions

  • 2022-03-22 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]
  • 2022-03-22 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]
• Children 2 questions

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to review the rate of fostering allowance paid to foster carers as recommended by the working group on foster care in 2001 that recommended that the foster care allowance should increase in line with social welfare payments on an annual basis given that this did happen up until 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14462/22]
  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the significant problems that currently exist in the smaller ECCE-only sessional preschools and the fact that this will be exacerbated by the new funding model; his further views on whether these small independent sessional services, the backbone of the early learning sector nationwide, will be heavily impacted by rising input costs, challenges in recruitment, high waiting lists, Government interference in terms of competition and no increase in the standard capitation level since 2018; his plans to address these significant problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14938/22]
• Enterprise 1 question

  • 2022-03-22 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]
• Housing 1 question

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the report by the Independent Working Group on defective housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14130/22]
• Education 1 question

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if she will review the fixed price contracts in place with private bus operators to service the school transport system to take account of the unprecedented increase in the cost of fuel prices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14464/22]
• Health 1 question

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when an audiology service will be provided at the primary care centre, Tuam, County Galway; the staffing complement for the centre; the recruitment arrangements in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14034/22]