Results 1,241-1,260 of 3,429 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [14894/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on housing took place. [14893/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Poverty (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: That is really important information about the heating supplement being paid outside of the winter months. How many families are aware of that? For example, if you take the figure of two out of every five families in the country being cast into energy poverty several months ago, I imagine some sort of awareness campaign is needed so people know there are supports. I accept there are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Poverty (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will ensure that households that have accumulated significant debts, including arrears on bills and on prepayment meters, have access to sufficient support to avoid a long-term legacy of indebtedness and reduced financial resilience among the poorest households in Ireland; and if she will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Poverty (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: Will the Minister for Social Protection ask her Department to ensure that households that have accumulated significant debts, including arrears on bills and prepayment meters, have access to sufficient support to avoid a long-term legacy of indebtedness and reduced financial resilience among the poorest households in Ireland?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Poverty (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his response. If we cast our minds back to the colder months of last year and early this year, in November, December and January, the issue on most of our lips was energy poverty and the number of families being cast into it. Two in every five households were experiencing energy poverty at that time. If we turn then to today, while the weather has changed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [14892/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine took place. [14891/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [14890/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: Today's session began with a rather crass debate as to whether 4,000 notices of termination would result in 4,000 families being evicted. The Taoiseach maintains that this would not be the case, and that is fine. What modelling does the Government have of exactly how many families will be evicted? What percentage of the figure of 4,000 to which I refer does the Taoiseach find tolerable?...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to award the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; if she will provide an update on the promised legislation surrounding this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15175/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline her Department's consumer protection strategy in the wake of a recent report (details supplied) which showed the numbers unable to heat their homes more than doubled in 2022. [15176/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider targeted measures, such as a social energy tariff, rather than universal payments in its future consumer protection and poverty reduction strategies. [15178/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: Contained in the programme for Government is a commitment to have a referendum on placing a right to housing in our Constitution. I believe it was last March, a year ago, when the Minister responsible for housing, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, announced that the wording of the referendum was due in the early part of this year. While I understand the wording is tied up in legal argument at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (23 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 11 o’clock I do not doubt the Minister's passion for the issue. An exception was previously made for a student who experienced appendicitis during an exam. Let us not treat differently those who experience a seizure, as some unfortunately do. Let us take it that all of us across the Chamber, including the Minister and I, agree that if a student who experiences epilepsy has a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (23 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the review of the eligibility criteria of the deferred leaving certificate examinations; when the criteria to be applied to this year's exams will be communicated to students, schools and parents; if a distinction will continue to be made between medical emergencies before and during the examinations; and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (23 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I want to ask the Minister for Education if she will provide an update regarding the review of the eligibility criteria of the deferred leaving certificate examinations; when the criteria to be applied to this year's exams will be communicated to students, schools, and parents; if a distinction will continue to be made between medical emergencies before and during the examinations; and if she...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (23 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: As the Minister is aware, Epilepsy Ireland has long campaigned to ensure that if a student experiences a medical emergency, such as a seizure, during the leaving certificate exam and is unable to complete the exam, he or she should be given the opportunity to resit the exam within the deferred exam cycle. The fact that this is not already the case is beyond belief. I raised this matter...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the withdrawal of children from the updated sexual education course on the forthcoming curriculum will be facilitated; if that will differ from the facilitation of non-religious children who wish to not attend religious instruction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14340/23]