Seán Canney

Seeking increases in social welfare, pension and fuel allowance rates; asking that Budget 2023 commits resources required to tackle homelessness, properly resource Domestic Violence strategy and ensure older people can remain living in their own home; the building of new social…

Parity in pay for Section 39 workers in line with their Section 38 Counterparts

To bring various matters to the attention of particular TDs and Senators

To secure once-off bonus payment to frontline healthcare workers who continued providing care to children and adults with intellectual disability throughout the Covid-19 pandemic

To achieve delivery on the commitments to credit unions in the Programme for Government

Seek VAT exemption within EU VAT Directive on safety equipment across all agricultural sectors::VAT exemption on sexed semen for all farmers::VAT exemption on non-oral livestock medicines (non-antibiotic). farm disinfectants and hygiene products::VAT exemption on faecal egg lab…

To highlight how persistent excise increases on tobacco products are driving Irish smokers towards a growing black market and fuelling significant growth in smuggling activity.

To provide an update on RAS activities and initiatives in relation to the prevention of smuggling

Proposals for Budget 2022

To highlight how excise increases will fuel the return of ‘ant smuggling’ as post pandemic international travel resumes and call for no further increases in excise duty on tobacco products. To call for an introduction of attachment orders to support the Fines Act 2010 and…

To provide an update on RAS activities and initiatives in relation to the prevention of smuggling

To provide an update on RAS activities and initiatives in relation to the prevention of smuggling

Farm Schemes - that the total annual CAP payment plus the national co-financing must amount to €2bn per annum, from the current level of €1.8bn from when the new CAP starts.::Suckler Cow::- Suckler farmers need a targeted payment of €300 per cow, facilitated by a combination of…

To expand Stamp Duty Relief to include all land transfers in registered Succession Farm Partnerships up to the age of 40.::Extend the maximum age to avail of Stamp Duty relief on the purchase of land to all young trained farmers up to the age of 40.::Extend the tax relief on the…

Seek VAT exemption within EU VAT Directive on safety equipment across all agricultural sectors::VAT exemption on sexed semen for all farmers::VAT exemption on non-oral livestock medicines (non-antibiotic). farm disinfectants and hygiene products::VAT exemption on faecal egg lab…