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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the reason NPHET is blocking the release of the risk register under a freedom of information request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23859/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 763. To ask the Minister for Health the reason NPHET is refusing to make publicly available the risk register under a freedom of information request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23860/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 764. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings of NPHET and the research subgroup of the Expert Advisory Group that have taken place since 12 June 2020. [23861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 765. To ask the Minister for Health when the minutes of meetings for NPHET and the research subgroup of the expert advisory group since the 12 June 2020 will be published. [23862/20]

Ministers and Ministers of State (Successors) Bill: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I intend to be brief. This is a very welcome Bill that has provoked the appropriate conversation and debate on the urgency required when we have a potential transition of Government. Urgency is what has been absent, which has probably motivated the Bill. At the very beginning of the Thirty-second Dáil and Thirty-third Dáil, there was an absence of urgency that continued for...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: Does the Minister of State remember his first truly political engagement? When I was walking today through the north inner city to get down here, I was reminiscing upon mine. It was about 2008, I was in first year in university and I was taking an interest in my community for the first time. I went to an incredible community leader named Fergus McCabe to tell him I would like to get more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the formula for the leaving certificate 2020 examinations will be made public in full detail (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clear guidelines will be issued for primary and secondary schools on drop off and collection of students in view of the significant issues experienced over the recent reopening of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a deadline by which infrastructural works in schools are to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22019/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ranking system which teachers needed to provide for leaving certificate students for the predictive grade system will be made public; if this is in line or contradictory with communication to schools and teachers in April 2020; and if subsequent communication was made to schools on this issue. [22042/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her appointment. I do not in any way underestimate the scale of the task she faces and I wish her well in her efforts in this vitally important area. Her success is in everybody's interests. The meetings of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response from which I and other attendees have got the most satisfaction have been those...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: We are discussing the reopening of our schools and I would imagine that, all over the country, educators are listening in to what we have to say. Not only that, they will also be looking at where it is we are saying it. I want to direct the point not necessarily at the Minister, who has no control over this, but more at the political establishment itself. We are speaking here in an...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will begin by expressing my deep gratitude for the work undertaken by the school education community, from school leaders and principals to teachers, SNAs and school secretaries. The work undertaken since the beginning of the pandemic has been nothing short of heroic. That should be acknowledged and it is lamentable that it has not been captured or highlighted in much of the public...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I ask Mr. Pike to answer the question on the guidelines and how we can improve the professionalisation of special educational needs assistants.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank all the speakers for their comprehensive presentations. I have three or four questions. I do not think I will get through all of them but I will try. I direct my first question to Ms Dempsey and the representatives from Inclusion Ireland. It was heartbreaking going through that organisation's report and learning of the regression that many students with intellectual disabilities...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank Ms Dempsey. I have a question for the representatives of secondary school parents. They have probably not been able to address their members on this so they might give a personal opinion, if they have one, or they can come back to me on it. Regarding the adjusted leaving certificate results that will be out next week, is there particular information that parents would like to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for appearing in front of the committee today and I want to acknowledge her work to date. I understand the pressure must be immense and while we certainly differ in approach, I appreciate the work she has contributed so far. The last line of the Minister’s statement stated that “now, more than ever, we need to stay in this together”. My Sinn...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I only have five minutes. This is not about anxiousness.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: International public health advice regarding CLL, which the mother suffers from, is to remain cocooned. That is not possible if they are sending two teenage children to individual schools. The one-size-fits-all model does not suit this family and they are being left behind. They have written to the Minister and an official from the Department wrote back, telling them to get in contact with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will highlight the fact that there is a contradiction between the HSE and NPHET guidelines, which state that very high-risk people should remain cocooned and limit interactions. That is in direct contradiction with this family's individual case. I will move on as I have other questions. I refer to the ranking system that will be announced next week following the leaving certificate....