Results 2,841-2,860 of 3,274 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the recent ballot outcome of a union (details supplied) and its members to take industrial action due to numerous issues of safety facing schools; and the action taken by her Department to engage with these concerns. [35446/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether pension reforms require a specific gender perspective, given that only 16% of women receive the full State pension (contributory); her further views on whether this perspective and expertise is included in the newly announced membership of the pension committee; if so, the specific members in this...

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: I was planning on going on some wanderings but I will not do that now. What we are talking about today, if we cut out the substance of what I was going to say, is power, privilege and the manner in which they replicate. This happens not only in the Irish education system but in Irish society as a whole. Education in Ireland is defined by many characteristics. It is full of decent people,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the way in which the additional €5 million for DEIS schools in Budget 2021 will be allocated and drawn from. [32876/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management which under the provision of the Education Act 1998 are charged with the direct governance of a school has the right to close a school after positive confirmed cases of Covid-19 within the school and concerns of an outbreak; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount of money spent on the Educational Testing Service. [33101/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new date for the planned leaving certificate exam 2020, which was scheduled to commence on 16 November 2020, has been agreed; if so, if she will provide details of same; if students who were planning on taking the exams have been contacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33103/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the results of successful and unsuccessful appeals from the primary staffing appeals board 2020-21 school year in tabular form. [33104/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the effects of Covid-19 were able to be considered as a factor for lower enrolment numbers that projected under appeals for the primary staffing appeals board 2020-21 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide information on the planned membership of the Commission on Pensions; if the Commission will be independent and reflect all sections of society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32872/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if household social welfare inspections are permitted to take place under level 5 [32873/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will enact a review for social welfare inspections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32874/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of lone parent households and two parent family households availing of the working family payment over the past 18-month period in tabular form. [32875/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare sanctions for jobseeker’s payments ceased during the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 964. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department carried out a data protection impact assessment on the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter Bill 2020; and if so, if the assessment will be made available. [33100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1106. To ask the Minister for Health the most up-to-date definition of a close contact used within the school environment; and the details of changes and dates of changes to this definition. [32877/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1272. To ask the Minister for Health if non-contact training outdoors can take place under level 5 restrictions; if so, if children can travel outside the 5km limit to attend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32870/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests and cases of school-going children since 27 September 2020 to the most recent data available by 0 to four, five to 12 and 13 to 19 years of age, in tabular form.. [32871/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1316. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the approximately 2,000 persons that tested positive for Covid-19 and asked by the HSE to alert their own close contacts were teachers, SNAs or school staff. [33102/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1572. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider public libraries to run click and collect services under level 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32878/20]