Results 401-420 of 3,434 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many schools in the Dublin area are operating without satisfactory levels of PPE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32073/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to reduce the qualifying period on social welfare in order to receive the back to education payment from nine months to three months for level 8 courses. [32071/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the community healthcare organisation quality improvement plan including the defined actions to improve maternity care and the timeframe for these actions as outcomes from the National Maternity Experience Survey [32067/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 258. To ask the Minister for Health his views on human connection and if it is a basic human need; and if so, the way that this affects individuals living alone. [32072/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: I initially put my hand up to speak on this topic out of anger because I spent a large part of this morning going over the amendments and preparing what I was going to say. Then, 20 minutes into the debate we were told the Minister would not be accepting any amendments. That is an extraordinary admission to make that resulted from an insightful question from my colleague, Deputy Cairns. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to significant delays meeting with homelessness officers; the reasons for such delays; and if there are alternative plans or suggested recourses to better support persons and families. [32279/20]

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

Gary Gannon: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to individual schools that have had to make the decision to close after outbreaks of Covid-19 following no guidance from HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32276/20]

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

Gary Gannon: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average length of time schools can expect to wait until hearing from the HSE. [32277/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a pathway for teacher pupil ratios to reach the EU average of 20:1 in classrooms here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32278/20]

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

Gary Gannon: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to carry out an audit in all primary and post-primary schools here in responses to growing concerns over lack of adequate funding to follow with public health guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32280/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of notified and unnotified home visits by social welfare inspectors over the past 18 months for the Dublin central area in tabular form. [32275/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who received a new offer through CAO as a result of the upgraded marks from the 18 students following the leaving certificate calculated grades appeals process that were upgraded. [32281/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if drug and alcohol support groups and treatment programmes are permitted to operate under potential level 5 restrictions; if so, if he will provide guidance on the safe continuation of these much needed supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32274/20]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised)
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: I want to raise an issue with the Minister. If it is a policy issue, we can discuss it on a different day but I want to bring it onto the agenda. It is the issue of funding for veterans associations. The Minister mentioned St. Bricin's Military Hospital. The Irish United Nations Association has its base just a stone's throw away in Stoneybatter. During my time on Dublin City Council we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the way in which the additional €5 million for DEIS schools in Budget 2021 will be allocated and drawn from. [32876/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management which under the provision of the Education Act 1998 are charged with the direct governance of a school has the right to close a school after positive confirmed cases of Covid-19 within the school and concerns of an outbreak; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount of money spent on the Educational Testing Service. [33101/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new date for the planned leaving certificate exam 2020, which was scheduled to commence on 16 November 2020, has been agreed; if so, if she will provide details of same; if students who were planning on taking the exams have been contacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33103/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the results of successful and unsuccessful appeals from the primary staffing appeals board 2020-21 school year in tabular form. [33104/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the effects of Covid-19 were able to be considered as a factor for lower enrolment numbers that projected under appeals for the primary staffing appeals board 2020-21 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33105/20]