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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]

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

Gary Gannon: As I hope the Minister of State is aware, there is a dearth of quality stadiums not only in the country but in Dublin and, from my perspective, particularly on the north side of the capital. I am asking for the Minster of State's views on the retention of Tolka Park as a stadium and on its redevelopment. Can we save it from the sword of Damocles under which it stands, where it is in the...

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

Gary Gannon: I fully appreciate that the owner of this stadium is Dublin City Council but I was also a member of Dublin City Council for over six years and I recognise that we stripped Dublin City Council of all local government funding to the point that all it sees in its assets is how it can sell them off in order to raise funds. In this Chamber, we talk about issues of national importance....

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

Gary Gannon: In my last years on the council the controlling group committed to not selling off any more public land. The council management, which is unelected, does not have the same vision for the city and certainly does not have the same vision for League of Ireland football as maybe the Minister of State, myself and others in the Chamber. The Minister of State's comment that no there would be no...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: People on low incomes will be having their own blackouts this winter because they simply will not be able to afford to keep the lights on, according to a representative of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul at the launch of the society's report, Warm Housing for All, this week. The price of gas and other fuel has increased by 19.6% in the past year. The moratorium on disconnections finished...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gender Equality (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to reduce gender disparity on Irish radio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47956/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Creative Youth Plan (5 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will work with the Minister for Education to create a national strategy for the arts in schools, with dedicated funding, in order that all children and young persons may enjoy the benefits from participation and exposure to the arts. [47957/21]

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: It is ludicrous that a green party would oppose a moratorium when we are facing blackouts in this country. Our request was reasonable and moderate and called for a delay on development until necessary without outwardly banning the development of the sector, as was suggested in that recent contribution. The Government, particularly the Green Party, has not seen fit to support us in our call....

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: I will speak on behalf of Deputy Whitmore. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. Yesterday, the Social Democrats introduced a motion calling for a moratorium on data centre development until a full Government strategy was put in place and all necessary analysis was carried out. This was despite objections from the so-called Green Party. All we asked for yesterday was a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (30 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: There are few occasions in this Chamber when we can unify and agree on an approach, and I think this is one such occasion. In our capital city at present, there are people who do not feel safe. The UN safer cities initiative for women and young girls requires resources and involves talking to young men about men's violence against women and tackling a culture of toxic masculinity. We can...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (30 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: I fundamentally believe that when we see crime, we should understand the context in which it occurs and the conditions which gave rise to it. However, I also believe that when people tell me they feel unsafe, there is an onus on us to create the conditions in which they start to feel safe again. In the city of Dublin at the moment, people genuinely feel unsafe. At the very heart of that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: We do not need an independent inquiry to tell us that certain practices are abhorrent. The Minister for Defence must act immediately to amend the law so that victims of rape or sexual assault in the Defence Forces can no longer be cross-examined by their abusers. The harrowing revelations in the "Women of Honour" documentary have shone a spotlight on the toxic culture of sexual abuse and...