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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 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...

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]

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: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister. [14895/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I acknowledge the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I must highlight the Minister's initial response. She set an unfortunate tone when she said that the motion represents yet another cynical attempt by the Opposition to undermine and misrepresent all that the Government continues to achieve in education. Are we not involved in successive campaigns by parents reaching...

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]

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: Bullying, harassment, intimidation, discrimination, assault and rape - what is hazing if not a form of torture? - are the conditions for women in the Defence Forces, as captured in this report. They are nothing short of medieval. The report by the independent review group has revealed heinous crimes of the very worst kind, many of which may still be happening to this day. The details and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I want to speak about Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire, Parnell Square in Dublin 1. Some of the stories and the image given of the square paint a pretty negative picture of the building itself, but contained in it are incredible teachers and wonderful students who for decades have been failed by the infrastructure and not by the intention of those who teach and provide care within it....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for stepping in to give the response. I appreciate this is not his Department. I am also conscious that should an answer such as this be given about a school in his area, he would not be satisfied. None of us would be. I appreciate there are capital construction costs and increasing construction costs due to a number of factors, not least the war in Ukraine....

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I express my best wishes to EU ambassador Aidan O’Hara on what must have been an incredibly traumatic experience. I am going through the minutes of the EU Council meeting so I can differ from other contributors. What stood out for me was the EU’s strong condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for imposing import bans on Ukrainian grain and farm produce, and rightly so. ...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: No, no, no.

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: In this Chamber and indeed in this Republic we are no strangers to the word "crisis". What I find fascinating about its use and how it is regularly thrown around this Chamber is that the word "crisis", which means the same thing regardless of the context in which it is used, can evoke such a divergence of urgency from those in power, depending on who is impacted by it and who is at fault for...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Sorry, will my time be respected here? I am involved as well.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Not really understanding what to expect from the contributions today, when this was first presented to us, it came under the banner of statements on gangland crime. That was changed over the course of a week, I am grateful, because I do not recognise where gangland is. Given some of the comments coming from the other side of the Chamber-----

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: -----for some, this is not actually about the communities who are impacted, devastated and exploited by the issue of organised criminality. It seems to be an opportunity to just take shots and further relegate this Chamber to some form of Westminsterisation. I will not stand for it. This is an important topic that impacts the community I represent and we will have our time to talk about...