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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: With respect, with regard to pre-Covid earnings, what people working in the live events sector would be earning now as we approach the end of the summer and the festival season is very different from what they would have been earning in February. I want to give the Minister a snapshot as a case study. Electric Picnic, which would be on around this time if it had been able to go ahead, is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I do not doubt for a second that the Minister is endeavouring to be as fair as possible but are we being as fluid or as malleable as possible in terms of protecting particular sectors? The live events sector is more vulnerable than most, which is why the calls for the increase in the pandemic unemployment payment to be particularly targeted at sectors such as this one are very important. ...

Community Safety and Fireworks: Motion [Private Members] (22 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: The Social Democrats will support the motion and commend the Sinn Féin Deputy for bringing it to the floor. It is an eminently sensible motion and does not lend itself to a grandiose speech. Most of us who live and operate within the city are brought to our senses several dozen times a day with the reverberations of fireworks and all that that entails. We can feel lucky we are not...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if representation by the commercial live events sector will be ensured on the taskforce for the recovery of the arts and culture in view of the fact this subsection of workers are the least likely to return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25188/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision to accommodate schools which need substitute bus escorts in cases of a bus escort having to self-isolate due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25189/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration and support for international students studying here prior to Covid-19 that may struggle to pay fees due to not being able to work over the summer period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25190/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools that have provided a mobile number for a designated contact following communication from her Department on 8 September 2020; and the recourse if a mobile number for a designated contact is not provided. [25871/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (23 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pandemic unemployment payment applicants can close their claim to take on a period of work and then go back on the payment by making a new claim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25870/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: Yesterday, Dr. Ronan Glynn sent out an excellent graphic and talked about how we should all reduce our contacts. He outlined how one case of the virus could lead to 56 cases. It was an excellent graphic and it was incredibly appropriate. I want the Taoiseach of speak to those who cannot reduce their networks. In particular, I am speaking of schoolteachers, special needs assistants and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons that received the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be liable for a lump sum of tax at the end of the year despite only receiving the maximum of their net pay through the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 283. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to calls from the live events sector to reinstate the employment wage subsidy scheme at the full rate per week for these workers in view of the fact the sector is closed and dramatically reduced under public health advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25023/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had with a union (details supplied) following a ballot of its members on 18 September 2020 in relation to a number of key issues which have emerged since schools reopened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27302/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the national educational psychologists will be permitted to make schools visits to make necessary assessments for students that have been waiting since February 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27303/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal advice her Department received which has resulted in the class ranking of leaving certificate students being released; and when she received this advice. [27304/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when and the way in which post-primary schools received communication regarding the class ranking being released. [27305/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students can expect results from the appeals process; and if there are different deadlines for the different stages associated with the process. [27307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 639. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the independently appointed Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes specifically and repeatedly recommended to his Department that the task of managing information and tracing be removed from Tusla on the basis that they experienced the behaviour of the agency to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 647. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) proposed amendments to the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 and several Senators submitted amendments at Seanad Committee Stage that would provide all adopted persons with their birth certificate following an information session as a proportionate...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 651. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 made no provision for natural mothers to access their own personal data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 640. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if instead of transferring records from the archive of the Commission for Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to Tusla he will transfer the specified database to the Adoption Authority of Ireland until such time as the records can be preserved in an independent centralised archive of all historical injustice records in view of the...