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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours that were banked nationally past year; and the way this would equate on a pro-rata basis if school buildings had been open for the full 183 days of the school year. [50116/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of engagement with the education stakeholders prior to the announcement of circular 50/21 section 6; and if it was accepted by them. [50117/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will establish the estimated costs of fully implementing the remaining sections and subsections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; if she plans to review the Act in view of changing needs and priorities as stated by her colleague Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion in February 2021;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, maximum and minimum times taken for reviews on SNA allocation to be completed by the NCSE over the past three years in tabular form. [50119/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkey-Ireland Relations: Engagement with Ambassador of Turkey (12 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank the ambassador for his statement. I have a question about Turkey's role in the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Does the ambassador have any comments on the recent conflict in that region? Does he believe that the issue of drone warfare, particularly in that conflict, would aid a further destabilisation of tensions and add new dimensions to warfare in that region? I also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkey-Ireland Relations: Engagement with Ambassador of Turkey (12 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: This is not a follow-up question. I asked who else in the region Turkey is providing such support to. Is Turkey selling drones to Morocco, for example, similar to the way it is selling to Azerbaijan?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether including PhD stipends and scholarship awards for a PhD from the means test for the one family payment is an active barrier facing students who are parenting alone or heading one parent families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48688/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the absence of statistical data on the use of site visits including home visits by social welfare inspectors; her views on whether this lack of statistical data is appropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48691/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to providing a hot school meal for every DEIS school in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48690/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove PhD stipends and scholarship awards for PhDs from means-tested social welfare payments as she has already done for the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48689/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a plan is in place to address the under staffing in Dublin City Fire Brigade resulting in an overreliance on overtime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48734/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staffing number for Dublin City Fire Brigade for the past five years in tabular form. [48735/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been an increase in the use of overtime used in Dublin City Fire Brigade over the past five years; his views on whether this is obscuring a staffing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48736/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a CO2 monitor to each ASD classroom in the country; the estimated cost for this provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48738/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Inspections (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 92. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of referrals made to his Department or Tusla as a result of social welfare inspectors performing site visits between 2017 and 2020 and to date in 2021. [48739/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a plan to address the underfunding by the HSE of Dublin Fire Brigade to operate ambulances and the need for additional ambulances in the capital. [48737/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: Similarly, I am taken with the Minister’s response. I appreciate the work she has done in this area. This would be an extraordinarily welcome development. A basic income scheme for our artists will allow them to be just that - artists. They will be able to be creative. The basic income will be an investment into the work they will produce, and all that will bring with it. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: Again, I acknowledge the Minister’s work and commitment to this issue. In addition to being the Social Democrats' spokesperson on the arts, I am also its spokesperson on social protection. I do not necessarily share the Minister's the same level of regard for the way that Department has operated. The scheme will be innovative and new. I hope it will be operated on the basis of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the pilot project for universal basic income for artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47954/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 3. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the situation in relation to a stadium (details supplied); and if she will consider providing the necessary funds to redevelop the stadium. [48382/21]