Questions asked 14 total

• Transport 4 questions

  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he plans to provide additional bus services between Galway and Loughrea to service the demand for public transport in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36013/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware of the direction by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to all local authorities to withhold planned road improvement tenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36014/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if local authorities, and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, where applicable, are responsible for the maintenance of all public roads within their charge, including the removal of trees all along the roadside within the curtilage of the boundary of the road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37203/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if there are plans to fund improvements to the N84 Headford Road, Galway to Castlebar, to help cope with the increase in traffic volumes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37208/24]
• Social 2 questions

  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a farmer who is applying for farm assist has to have farm accounts done by an accountant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36012/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will remove nursing home costs from the means assessments for fuel allowance payments to alleviate the burden on families (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36431/24]
• Health 2 questions

  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE is refusing to employ recently graduated mental health nurses, despite the chronic shortage of mental health nursing staff in the health system, leaving graduates with no option but to emigrate to other countries; if his attention has been drawn to the further devastation that this decision will cause to the mental health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36291/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the waiting time for assessment and the waiting time for treatment at the pain clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of people waiting for treatment; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36620/24]
• Education 2 questions

  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if the decision by Bus Éireann not to allocate school bus tickets for four children (details supplied) after the payment deadline was missed due to a family bereavement will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37199/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education when approval will be given to a school (details supplied) for an application for funding for solar panels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37206/24]
• Enterprise 1 question

  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that some soft play centres that have a coffee shop attached which accounts for 80% of their turnover and the business is a registered cafe and or restaurant with the HSE have been deemed ineligible for the increased cost of business scheme (ICOB2) grant funding despite the fact that they were eligible for ICOB1 funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36292/24]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will address the lack of strategy around regional screen production since the lapse of the s.481 regional uplift; if she will support a dedicated regional strategy as part of Budget 2025 to specifically address the development of the sector in the regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36128/24]
• Housing 1 question

  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress being made in the delivery of the wastewater treatment system for Craughwell, County Galway; if there is a site identified for the treatment plant; the expected delivery date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37205/24]
• Rural 1 question

  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider making it mandatory for all public swimming pools, including hotel pools, to have lifeguards during opening hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37211/24]