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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will highlight the fact that there is a contradiction between the HSE and NPHET guidelines, which state that very high-risk people should remain cocooned and limit interactions. That is in direct contradiction with this family's individual case. I will move on as I have other questions. I refer to the ranking system that will be announced next week following the leaving certificate....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: My only concern is with regard to rank order and I hope it can be addressed. I thank the Minister for engaging with me.

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: We are discussing the reopening of our schools and I would imagine that, all over the country, educators are listening in to what we have to say. Not only that, they will also be looking at where it is we are saying it. I want to direct the point not necessarily at the Minister, who has no control over this, but more at the political establishment itself. We are speaking here in an...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her appointment. I do not in any way underestimate the scale of the task she faces and I wish her well in her efforts in this vitally important area. Her success is in everybody's interests. The meetings of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response from which I and other attendees have got the most satisfaction have been those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the formula for the leaving certificate 2020 examinations will be made public in full detail (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clear guidelines will be issued for primary and secondary schools on drop off and collection of students in view of the significant issues experienced over the recent reopening of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a deadline by which infrastructural works in schools are to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22019/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ranking system which teachers needed to provide for leaving certificate students for the predictive grade system will be made public; if this is in line or contradictory with communication to schools and teachers in April 2020; and if subsequent communication was made to schools on this issue. [22042/20]

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: Does the Minister of State remember his first truly political engagement? When I was walking today through the north inner city to get down here, I was reminiscing upon mine. It was about 2008, I was in first year in university and I was taking an interest in my community for the first time. I went to an incredible community leader named Fergus McCabe to tell him I would like to get more...

Ministers and Ministers of State (Successors) Bill: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I intend to be brief. This is a very welcome Bill that has provoked the appropriate conversation and debate on the urgency required when we have a potential transition of Government. Urgency is what has been absent, which has probably motivated the Bill. At the very beginning of the Thirty-second Dáil and Thirty-third Dáil, there was an absence of urgency that continued for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons here diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. [23679/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Inspections (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the school inspectorate in view of the fact that formal inspections have paused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23853/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if public health HSE or his Department have the mobile numbers of principals in primary and post-primary schools nationwide in the event of contact tracing taking place when schools are closed, that is, at the weekend. [23854/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools were first contacted and informed that they had to have a summary of key information to assist public health HSE in its public health risk assessment. [23855/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific guidance plan for buses which service schools and persons with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23858/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI will alter the process of classifying students at their first point of entry to an approved post-leaving certificate course or an approved higher education course in view of the fact it disadvantages students that move out of the family home that is become independent unless they take a break from pursuing their education for five...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the community policing forums will be re-established in central areas of Dublin; and if meetings of the forums will be supported to resume in a safe manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23857/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of foreign nationals that were refused leave to land in airports here between March and August 2020, by gender, nationality and the country to which they were deported to in tabular form [23863/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of foreign nationals that spent time in a prison here after being refused leave to land at an airport between March and August 2020 by the location in which they were jailed, nationality and gender in tabular form. [23864/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (15 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the delays in opening the immigration facility at Dublin Airport and the continued use of jails here to accommodate immigrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23865/20]