National Posts
National posts and information articles by public representative Sean Canney TD for the constituency of East Galway in the West of Ireland
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03, 2020
PDAC CONVENTION IN TORONTO
Visiting the Ireland exhibition at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention 2020 in Toronto. I was joined by Ireland's Ambassador to Canada Jim Kelly and Eibhlin Doyle of the Exploration and Mining [...]
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02, 2020
TREE TAPPING IN LONGFORD
I visited Derraghan Woods, Co. Longford to inspect one of Bord na Mona's new enterprises. Tapping birch trees for their liquid is popular in Finland and the Baltic states because of the range of health [...]
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02, 2020
IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY CONSERVATION GRANTS
I am urging all those responsible for protected buildings and recorded monuments to consider applying for grants from the Irish Georgian Society. The society's Conservation Grants Programme 2020 offers a total funding of €50,000 to [...]
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02, 2020
COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT SCHEME SUPERVISORS SHOULD HAVE RECOGNISED STATUS
The employment status of Community Employment Scheme supervisors needs to be regularised. It is sad that the supervisors have had to take strike action today but the campaign to have their status recognised by the [...]
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02, 2020
Sean Canney TD Elected to 33rd Dail
"On behalf of myself and my family, a sincere Thank You to the people of Galway East for re-electing me to represent them in Dail Eireann for the coming five years. I will do my [...]
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02, 2020
PLANET YOUTH STRATEGY LAUNCH
I joined President Higgins today at the launch of the Planet Youth Strategy and Implementation Framework in the Ard Rí House Hotel in Tuam. Planet Youth aims at preventing children and adolescents from initiating drug [...]
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01, 2020
COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT SCHEME SUPERVISORS SHOULD HAVE RECOGNISED STATUS
The employment status of Community Employment Scheme supervisors must to be regularised. The long running campaign by the Community Employment supervisors to have their employment status recognised by the Department of Social Protection has been [...]
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01, 2020
SHEEP WELFARE SCHEME
The fourth year of the Sheep Welfare Scheme will commence on February 1 2020. Existing participants in the scheme will be automatically enrolled and will not need to take any action should they wish to [...]
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01, 2020
MORE THAN €2.38 MILLION IN YOUTH FUNDING FOR GALWAY AND ROSCOMMON
More than €61 million in nationwide funding has been allocated for youth services for 2020, including more than €2.38 million for services in Galway and Roscommon. I am delighted at the Department of Children and [...]
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01, 2020
GREENWAYS FUNDING APPLICATIONS OPEN
A new applications process for the funding of greenways has been opened following the allocation of an additional €4.5 million from the Carbon Tax Fund. This is an opportunity for greenways projects which were excluded [...]