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Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the north-east inner city task force. [5887/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: When the Taoiseach answers the Deputies' questions, in particular those of Deputies Haughey and Tóibín, will he explain the complications for a person seeking sanctuary in Ireland coming from Eritrea, for example, where they do not have the capacity to get a passport in the way we do, or a person fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, where passports have not been issued since 2021, or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to request the chairs of the review into PhD conditions to contact an organisation (details supplied); and to meet with the organisation as the body representing PhD researchers in Ireland. [6934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the progress of the national review into PhD conditions; if he will provide a full work plan for the review as laid out by the chairs; the meetings the chairs have had or plan to have with stakeholders; and the anticipated date of completion for the review. [6932/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason social welfare payments to single mothers, such as the one-parent family payment, are reduced if their ex-partner is still contributing to the family's mortgage payments. [6935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6936/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for details of the average social welfare appeals processing times in weeks for summary decisions and oral hearings, by scheme. [6937/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Minister had to ask whether the school was part of the programme. Action to alleviate poverty cannot be based on a roulette wheel of which schools have hot meals and which do not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the steps she intends to take to eradicate child poverty. [6395/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: What steps does the Department intend to take to eradicate child poverty, particularly in light of the Taoiseach's remark that a unit would be set up in his Department to combat child poverty?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: When we ask these questions, we get to throw the ball in the air and the Minister gets to tell us all the great things the Government is doing. It is just the nature of them.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Exactly. However, 163,936 children in this country still live in consistent poverty according to the data presented last year. These are children without access to two warm coats and if their shoes are damaged, their parents are unable to replace. Regardless of whether the child goes hungry, there is certainly an adult in his or her house who does. I welcomed the fact that when the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I appreciate fully that poverty is multidimensional. I hope it goes across all Departments. The Ombudsman for Children asked for a child poverty strategy to be embedded in all Departments and I welcome this call. At its basis, poverty, whether that is childhood poverty or the poverty of a family, is about what a person is being asked to go without, such as food, warm clothes, shoes or the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the legal basis on which welfare inspectors are entitled to enter a person’s home. [6173/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the gender pay gap report from his Department. [5889/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 45. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [5890/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made regarding SNA allocations for September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6189/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (2 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views and those of the Government on, “the triple lock”; and if he has any intention to change the current regime to a situation where the Government would have more flexibility to act militarily abroad. [5162/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (2 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I want to ask the Minister about his attitude and that of the Government towards the triple lock mechanism, and whether he has any intention to change the current regime to a situation where the Government would have more flexibility to act militarily abroad.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (2 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: It was with that cause for reflection that I was motivated to ask the question. I assume I have a different opinion from the Tánaiste, in that I believe the triple lock has given us strength until this point and I do not want to infringe in any way on our neutrality, although we may disagree as to whether it would or not. Why not have the debate as opposed to spending the past year or...