Sean Canney – Speech on the Water Bill – 17th October 2017

The ongoing saga in relation to water charges is now coming to a conclusion. Much has been written and much has been spoken about water, the cost of water, water waste, leaks and how best [...]

Canney welcomes supports in Budget for Agricultural and Rural communities

Seán Canney T.D. has welcomed the increases in funding for rural Ireland. In particular that additional funding of €19 million for rural and community development is vital to enhance rural Ireland. The further increase in [...]

Canney welcomes increase in investment in Education in Budget

Deputy Seán Canney welcomes the increase in 1,300 additional teaching posts in schools in 2018. This will result in the pupil teacher ratio being reduced to 26 to 1 in Primary Schools. This is the [...]

By | October 18th, 2017|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News|0 Comments

Canney Welcomes €25 Million funding for new STEM Building at GMIT

Deputy Seán Canney TD has been informed that the Department of Education are to provide €25 million for a new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) building at the Galway Campus of GMIT. The building [...]

By | October 17th, 2017|Blog, Education, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News|0 Comments

Canney welcomes €30 million additional funding for 2017 Sports Capital Grants

Seán Canney T.D. has welcomed the announcement by Minister Shane Ross that the allocation of funding for the 2017 Sports Capital Programme is to be doubled from €30 to €60 million. ‘I have worked closely [...]

Canney welcomes doubling of funding for Greenways

Seán Canney T.D. has welcomed the announcement by Minister Shane Ross that he is to double the amount of funding for Greenways. This announcement is in recognition of the success of Greenways. A new development [...]

Irish Water Update on Storm Ophelia

Dear Deputies Irish Water working in partnership with the Local Authority has incident plans in place and crews on standby to deal with the effects of Storm Ophelia. Irish Water recognises that the predicted conditions [...]

FREE BA IN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Galway Rural Development are delighted to be working with Equal Ireland in offering a FREE degree to Women aged over 21 in County Galway . This course is strictly for women who are not in [...]

Meeting with Harris on Merlin Park fiasco

I, along with other Oireachtas members met with Health Minister Simon Harris TD last week to brief the Minister on the situation arising at Merlin Park hospital. Also in attendance at the meeting were Maurice [...]

By | October 9th, 2017|Blog, Galway East, Health, Homepage, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

Speech by Seán Canney TD Official Opening Mountbellew Primary Care Centre

Introduction Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, Reverend Father and Public Representatives. I am delighted to be here today and I would like to thank Tony O’Brien for the invitation to officially open the new expanded [...]

By | October 8th, 2017|Blog, Galway East, Health, Homepage, Latest News, Launch Events, Tuam Area|0 Comments