Seán Canney

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for Social Housing

To highlight the impact of traffic congestion at Parkmore Industrial Estate in Galway and the need to find a speedy resolution to the issue and improve access.

Discretion in lending small amounts to be restored to credit unions::To ensure credit is available for the most vulnerable

To highlight issues in relation to flooding and to emphasise the need for effective flood risk management including the construction of flood defences

To tackle income volatility:::- Extension of income averaging where farmer’s spouse is self-employed - where a spouse of a farmer has a fully separable source of income from self-employment, income averaging should be allowed on the farm profits.::- Individualising income…

Agri-Environment Schemes - GLAS - that funding of €250m is allocated for agri-environment schemes in Budget 2017, with full payments for all GLAS, AEOS and oranic scheme participants::Areas of Natural Constraints - that funding is increased by €25m in Budget 2017, to €225m, This…

That Seanad Eireann passes the proposed amendments in the Bill to the Wildlife Act and allows landowners or their agents, for a pilot period of two years, to manage vegetation in hedges and ditches during August.::In the case of the burning of gorse, to enable regrowth of…

To provide low cost loans to farmers to alleviate cashflow pressures across all sectors::That these loans would be available to farmers from January 2017::That the Minister for Agriculture communicates with the Strategic Banking Corporation (SBCI) to urge greater engagement with…

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for SMEs

To ensure that the scale and speed of eir's current and planned investment in high-speed broadband on a nation-wide basis is fully understood among Oireachtas members

That the Minister for Agriculture would put in place a crisis fund for farmers who have suffered crop losses of 25-50% and straw losses in excess of 50%::That Aid would be paid on a once-off basic to cereal and oilseed growers who can demonstrate that they incurred substantial…

Maintenance Programme for flooding on the River Shannon::To ensure that there will be a review of cost benefit analysis so that agricultural land and losses resulting from output is adequately taken into account

Modification to existing Greenways programme to allow payments to be made for walkways and the GLAS

Government to deal with issues facing the 600,000 people with disabilities in Budget 2017

To keep Public Reps informed on Laya Healthcare's activities and to obtain feedback as well as affording all attendees an opportunity to ask any questions in an open forum