Results 421-440 of 3,274 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide information on the planned membership of the Commission on Pensions; if the Commission will be independent and reflect all sections of society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32872/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if household social welfare inspections are permitted to take place under level 5 [32873/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will enact a review for social welfare inspections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32874/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of lone parent households and two parent family households availing of the working family payment over the past 18-month period in tabular form. [32875/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare sanctions for jobseeker’s payments ceased during the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 964. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department carried out a data protection impact assessment on the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter Bill 2020; and if so, if the assessment will be made available. [33100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1106. To ask the Minister for Health the most up-to-date definition of a close contact used within the school environment; and the details of changes and dates of changes to this definition. [32877/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1272. To ask the Minister for Health if non-contact training outdoors can take place under level 5 restrictions; if so, if children can travel outside the 5km limit to attend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32870/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests and cases of school-going children since 27 September 2020 to the most recent data available by 0 to four, five to 12 and 13 to 19 years of age, in tabular form.. [32871/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1316. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the approximately 2,000 persons that tested positive for Covid-19 and asked by the HSE to alert their own close contacts were teachers, SNAs or school staff. [33102/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1572. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider public libraries to run click and collect services under level 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32878/20]

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: I was planning on going on some wanderings but I will not do that now. What we are talking about today, if we cut out the substance of what I was going to say, is power, privilege and the manner in which they replicate. This happens not only in the Irish education system but in Irish society as a whole. Education in Ireland is defined by many characteristics. It is full of decent people,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for taking the opportunity not only to be here tonight but for re-arranging the session we were supposed to have last week. We all agree the restrictions have been hard on many people and many different sectors. They have had unintended consequences which have placed particular difficulties on how people go about their lives. Keeping schools open has been particularly...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: I am afraid it does not alleviate them. When the Minister came off script at the end of his reply, he was a bit more honest about what is happening. I fully appreciate that the culture of Dublin Bus is not to leave any child at a bus stop. The drivers make a remarkable contribution to our city. They are generally friendly and reliable. However, at this time of level 5 restrictions, there...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 93. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the provisions which will be made available to ensure pubs, restaurants and nightclubs will be able to survive in the likely scenario that they will not be able to open over the Christmas period. [35130/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public consultations have happened regarding the proposed Maynooth DART project; and if so, the means that were used to ensure contact has been made with persons living near the railways and the geographical extent either side of the railways by which notice was given to the surrounding populations in Dublin city. [35442/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 364. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will commission an independent investigation into the cancellation of the tender for communications from the Arts Council after four months following differing and conflicting explanations for the reason of the tender cancelled. [35437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 365. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to a dispute between a union (details supplied) and the Arts Council over its breaching of agreements; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that a work to rule may impact the distribution of resources to artists which the Council is established to serve; her views on the Arts...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 366. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the reasons the Arts Council cancelled a tender after four months of processing same have been investigated; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Arts Council has changed its reasons for cancellation; and her views on the inconsistency of the claim by the council that one tender was cancelled due to costs...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 367. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will request that the Arts Council also does a survey on its communications with artists in addition to the survey being carried of its board and staff in relation to its communications in order that a fuller picture may be gained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35440/20]