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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist people in the private rented sector during the Covid-19 crisis; and his further plans to assist persons that are self-isolating and have an upcoming notice of termination which requires them to leave the property. [4988/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist persons in the private rented sector during the Covid-19 crisis; and his further plans to assist persons living in overcrowded accommodation and will be unable to self-isolate. [4989/20]

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: As Ireland emerges from this crisis, we are going to need our arts community more than ever. When the time comes that we can gather in groups with our friends or families it will be our artists, through their music, drama and artistic content, that will be the focal point of that much needed and much longed-for gathering. We are going to rely on our artists to help us laugh again....

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I am thinking about the actual guidelines about how theatres can actually open.

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I feel that we will need some physical guidelines from the Department on how theatres can open. I will move on to artists' payments. We have accepted that €203 in unemployment benefit is not enough for a person to live off. We have already crossed that Rubicon. According to the 2016 census, some 23,000 people make their living from art, including artists and the freelance...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: Does the Department envision providing capital grants that will enable artistic spaces to open? I am thinking particularly of community spaces which will not be able to fund many of the requirements to enhance safe social distancing measures.

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: Is it not Fine Gael's time?

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will make a brief opening statement and then ask questions and I might get the answers one after another if possible. There was much to admire in the Department's response to the Covid-19 crisis. It was swift and I cannot imagine the amount of work the officials and staff throughout the country engaged in. We really do owe them a debt of gratitude as we do to the Minister. She is the...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will not ask the Minister to comment on this but we need to consider who is in the room when these decisions are made. If trade union representatives were in the room, these gaps in the provisions, which exclude people, could be identified earlier. If we are going to be making further amendments, we probably need to widen the process of who is being included in the considerations. There...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister and certainly echo those sentiments. I am interested in the sort of data we are collecting and collating at the moment and how we are going to apply the data. I have seen some statistics from the Office for National Statistics in the UK and they are really grim. They concern the occupations with the highest death rates linked to Covid-19 and, as one would imagine, the...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: On Thursday last, I raised an issue with the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Josepha Madigan, who referred me to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Some 23,000 artists and freelance technicians who make their work in the arts will not be able to return to work any time soon because their jobs require crowds, which present a danger. They will...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: If possible, I will ask for a question and answer approach and for the Minister to be brief. Obviously, some questions will require more substantial answers than others. It was not my intention to return to the issue of calculated grades, but it is difficult to remove ourselves from it. I was struck by the Minister's opening remarks when he stated: The estimated mark [that a student will...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I am still a little bit confused as to how that would be taken in with the alignment process. One of the big inequalities in education is overcrowding in classrooms. On average, there are 26 students per classroom, which is one of the higher averages in the EU. One in five students are in classrooms of 30 students or more. The Minister's constituency has some of the highest...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: We have talked about this year's sixth year cohort having had an experience unlike any other. Arguably, the class of 2021 will have an even more unfair experience than any other. This year's fifth year cohort has lost a substantial amount of its fifth year schooling and they will be entering sixth year in an entirely new world. We do not yet know what that will look like. What is the plan...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I would argue that it is a vital piece of work which we really need to see, probably before the break for the summer. Career guidance counselling, which really works as emotional support in most schools, is an absolutely vital function. For the longest period of time, it has been completely underfunded and, I would argue, underappreciated. When there was talk of proceeding with the...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: One of those extra allocations of money will have to be for a school book scheme. A lot of conversation is happening around the digital divide and the quest to get iPads and laptops into students' hands. What has happened over the past couple of months is that schools have given out books to students and a lot of those books will not be coming back. We need to look at how we can get some...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being put forward to protect post leaving certificate students similar to the leaving certificate in view of the fact students have had their learning significantly interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic; and if it will be recommended to higher level institutions that these places be dedicated to students coming from post-leaving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision will be going ahead in 2020; and if so, the timeframe and manner for same in order to provide clarity to students, parents and teachers that are due to take part in the scheme. [7004/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if the measures for PPE for clinical speech and language therapists will be confirmed in view of the fact the lack of full recognition of elements of their work, for example, dysphagia and swallowing disorders are not recognised as an aerosol generating procedure placing them at an increased risk in their work. [7006/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 814. To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to the ownership of the proposed site for the new national maternity hospital; if the site will be brought into full public ownership in view of the announcement by a religious order (details supplied) that it is to divest itself of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group which in turn is to transfer to St. Vincent’s Holdings CLG;...