Results 1,601-1,620 of 3,274 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of incomplete passport applications that require further action from the applicant that are as a result of witnesses being uncontactable. [24025/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to redevelop and update the social personal and health education curriculum for primary, junior cycle and senior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24028/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants from the post-primary schools in the fee-charging sector that applied for the post-primary schools Covid-19 minor works grant; the number that were successful in securing funding; the amount of funding that was provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of HEPA filters purchased or rented by primary, special education, and post-primary schools since the announcement in December 2021 of funding available for HEPA filters in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the awards and funding from the Arts Council and other artistic bursaries, awards and grants will be excluded from the means test for the blind pension for artists with disabilities akin to the action taken to ensure that PhD students with disabilities retain their social protection payments; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the awards and funding from the Arts Council and other artistic bursaries, awards and grants will be excluded from the means test for the disability allowance for artists with disabilities akin to the action taken to ensure that PhD students with disabilities retain their social protection payments; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the vast difference of the savings and investments disregard between the blind pension, in which the first €20,000 is not included in the means test and the disability allowance, in which the first €50,000 is not included in the means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will harmonise the saving and investment disregard for the blind pension to that of the disability allowance; if she will detail the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24019/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will harmonise the treatment of people with disabilities who secure artistic funding, bursaries or grants to make it the same as for people with disabilities who secure PhD funding that is, Catherine’s law; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24021/22]

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: The writer John McGahern once wrote that Ireland was a peculiar place in the sense that it was a 19th century society right up to the mid-1970s and then it almost bypassed the 20th century. As we are asked to celebrate and reflect upon Europe Day in the national Parliament, that quote above all captures for me the pace of change that occurred in Irish society after we joined the EEC in 1973....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [22981/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [22980/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [22979/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department have engaged with representatives of the Colombian government with regard to the purchasing of coal or fossil fuels of any kind from Colombia. [22975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current timeline for first-time passport applicants. [22976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider removing the fees for passport applications that are not completed until after the estimated delivery date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Electricity Supply Board (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he had further communications with the ESB following correspondence to the company in September 2019 requesting further information regarding the outsourcing of coal from the Cerrejón mine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22974/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 395. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of first-time passport applications that have been escalated in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [22734/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 396. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of first-time passport applications that have been escalated more than once in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [22735/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 397. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average length of time between a first-time passport application being escalated and the passport being issued. [22736/22]