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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...

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.

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]

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 - 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...

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: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I believe we are now six years into the north east inner city task force following the Mulvey report and €38 million has been spent. Where is the record of achievement? Deputy McDonald asked for a review. I would like a review. The Taoiseach may remember that the reason the north east inner city task force was initiated to combat drug related crime, poverty and dereliction in the...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin. It is of paramount importance that we address the cost-of-living crisis with urgency and action. I fear that the gravity of the term "cost of living" is being lost on members of the Government. Perhaps the Society of St. Vincent de Paul captured it better when it talked of the cost of survival, which is experienced in people's homes every single...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the process by which chairs of the review into PhD conditions were selected; and to provide details of the remuneration awarded to chairs. [6933/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Will the Minister clarify the process by which chairs of the review into PhD conditions were selected and provide details of the remuneration awarded to the chairs?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: My intention in tabling the question was to find out facts, so I do not really have anything to debate, although I do have a request. Will the Minister engage with the chairs to see whether they will meet the soon-to-be-formed postgraduate workers’ organisation as the body that will represent PhD researchers? If the Minister has not met representatives of an earlier iteration of this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I am here to discuss crime and antisocial behaviour in Cabra. I want to say before I do that I do not believe Cabra is by any means different from any other part of the city or the country. Cabra is a very well-settled place full of people who love living there. Why would they not? There are issues in Cabra, as there are throughout other parts of Dublin, with an element of antisocial...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Cabra is situated in such a place that when gardaí need to be reallocated to other parts of the north side, it usually has to take the brunt of that. With the recent spate of protests, which I am reluctant to call them, or the engagements in which the Garda was involved, it was Cabra Garda station that lost some of its gardaí to go to those scenarios. Cabra is also situated beside...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank my colleague, Deputy Whitmore, for tabling this important motion. The motions process is interesting. Essentially, we table motions that set out what the Government should be doing and then the Government says what it has done. All the while, real consequences are being felt in people's homes. I wish to throw some light on what is being felt in people's homes and the level of...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: One of the problems with sitting here listening to others' contribution is that one's own speech can often go out the window. I will start with basic truths because we are living in an age of extraordinary misinformation and the targets of that are often the people to whom we are referring today. For me and for the party I represent, it is important to be unashamedly pro-migration. My...