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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: 726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to prevent paramedicine students from not having sufficient work experience during their degree to meet the needs of their chosen career. [32220/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if core social welfare rates will be adjusted in the next budget (details supplied) to match the rate of inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33417/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: Will core social welfare rates be adjusted in the next budget to match the rate of inflation, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I do not doubt the Minister's interest in the subject but we potentially disagree on what the rates should look like. The MESL, the minimum essential standard of living that a person needs to live a life of dignity, is substantially above what current core social welfare payments. The argument made by several people who work in this field is that some of the once-off payments are just that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I cannot unsee the circumstances that exist in the absence of the pandemic unemployment payment, which was very welcome, having been set at a rate of €350 to recognise that people coming out of employment through no fault of their own would not be able to live on core social welfare rates. It is very difficult to unsee that social welfare rates have increased by only €5 a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I want to go back to the deplorable escalation of violence we have witnessed in Palestine and Jenin over the past week. In response to Deputy Carthy the Tánaiste rightfully mentioned the contribution of his colleague the late Brian Lenihan to the debate, as the first European politician to recognise the right of the Palestinians to a homeland. We recognise and remember this 44 years...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I was about to say I intend to be quick but I do not have a choice. We have been offered five minutes to debate partaking in four European Defence Agency projects. I put it to the Minister of State and his Government that this is a farce. It gives us absolutely no opportunity to undertake the required level of scrutiny or to fulfil our mandate. These issues matter. I do not want to say...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (11 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: What steps is the Minister taking in conjunction with her ministerial colleagues to address the deteriorating public safety issues in the city of Dublin?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (11 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for her response. I do not doubt for a second that there are plans in train and I welcome all of them. The north inner city has in the past had such local community policing partnerships. All the while, crime and anti-social behaviour continued almost separately. In Dublin city centre, for example, when a retail worker finishes work at 9 p.m. on Thursday evening, what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (11 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I appreciate the Garda station opening and I have welcomed it. If we were to walk along O'Connell Street and Marlborough Street this evening to get a Luas, would any one of us feel safe? I walk home through that area most evenings. There is still an issue. I have specifically asked what attempts the Minister is making in conjunction with her ministerial colleagues. How much has she...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin and the Labour Party for tabling the motion. The Deputy's contribution showed his passionate for the subject. This is an interesting, timely and important motion. I will lay out my stall. Football has meant the world to me. I benefited massively from its properties and I ardently want all others, young kids in particular but older people too,...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: At least 300 people who were travelling on migrant boats from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands have disappeared. The boats they travelled on have been missing for 15 days since they left Senegal to try to reach Spain. Nobody embarks on these deadly journeys out of choice. These families face extreme poverty, deprivation, extremes of heat and weather and persecution. Each migrant's story...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (13 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will engage with the various stakeholders involved in the development of a campaign (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35132/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (13 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Minister would have seen the passion in the Chamber yesterday when football clubs from around the country with a love of the game assembled here. I am asking about a site just outside my constituency at Alfie Byrne Park, which has been a planned destination for a number of clubs, including East Wall Bessborough Football Club, Belvedere Football Club and I hope Sheriff Youth Club, to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (13 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his very comprehensive answer and for getting into specifics regarding Alfie Byrne Road. The site referenced by Minister of State for which Dublin City Council requires funding is just around the corner from Clontarf so there are all sorts of complications given the different GAA clubs and the multitude of football clubs that play on a pitch that is not fit...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (13 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: It is but there are complications around leases.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (13 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: That was a helpful answer.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: Last month, following another violent incursion and atrocity inflicted on the Palestinian people by the State of Israel, I once again, along with Deputies, asked the Tánaiste whether the Government would finally recognise the state of Palestine in keeping with the commitment made by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, in 2020. Two aspects of the Tánaiste's reply...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (11 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of a charity having a designated liaison in her Department (details supplied) has been considered. [34389/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected processing times for remaining undocumented scheme applications; and the staffing numbers in the scheme unit from the start of the scheme to date. [34391/23]