Results 81-100 of 2,681 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if vulnerable persons who were not able to go on Covid-19 illness benefit previously are now eligible; and if vulnerable persons are entitled to two 14 day Covid-19 illness benefit terms. [9509/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarity will be provided regarding one parent families in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and another social welfare payment regarding the measures expected to be enacted to claim some portion of this income back (details supplied). [9512/20]

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: I am very conscious that as we sit here today and discuss education, students who would otherwise be doing their junior or leaving certificates or who would be going on school tours are sitting at home. In addition to the pandemic, which is affecting them in a multitude of ways, now when they turn on their television or social media they are faced with pictures of racial injustice and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when safe pass courses will be permitted to commence again in view of the fact that construction workers have returned to work and new entrants to the sector have not had a safe pass certificate before; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10349/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when examination fees will be refunded. [9654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps which will be taken regarding the 994 students that failed to sign into the portal in time for the predictive grade deadline; and the way in which this compares to previous years for leaving certificate non-sits. [10356/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the status of bus route D520 Enfield to Maynooth remains the same; and if it has been revised or has been considered for revision to more formally accommodate Enfield-based students attending schools (details supplied). [10351/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the status of bus route D520 remains the same; and if Enfield-based students of schools (details supplied) that were accessing the service as concessionary travel will continue to be accommodated and transported to their school in view of the fact that are relocating to an educational campus one kilometre away from a school. [10352/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the overall capital construction cost of schools (details supplied) in County Meath. [10353/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure by year incurred in the rental of past and present premises since the opening of schools (details supplied). [10354/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if predictive grades will have an impact on the points reduction offered to students that are eligible for the higher education access route. [10355/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which persons in direct provision are being supported in terms of being able to social distance, PPE provision and online tools and internet that is vital at this time for education, well-being and communication. [10361/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 421. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend nurse prescribing to include opioid substitution therapies such as methadone in order to alleviate pressure on services arising from Covid-19; if the issue is being examined as part of the 2021 review of the National Nurse and Midwife Medicinal Product Prescribing Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10348/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 422. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 486, 502 and 519 of 27 May 2020, the action the State plans to take when the 99-year lease for the land on which the new national maternity hospital will be built expires; the plans in place for the continuity of public maternity care at the site after the 99 years have expired; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 423. To ask the Minister for Health when cancer screenings will resume. [10360/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the progress of the judge-led group announced as part of Budget 2020 to examine and make recommendations in relation to child maintenance payments. [10347/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 payment will be reinstated to asylum seekers in direct provision; if an increase to the rate of the daily expenses allowance will be reconsidered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10359/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: EU Funding (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 739. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of the structural funding from the EU that will be ring-fenced for culture and arts here. [10358/20]

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: I think we get the best results from these sessions when we ask questions and get answers. As such, I will ask the Minister some questions, invite him to provide an answer and then come back on them. I apologise in advance for interjecting or rushing the Minister. There are a lot of questions to be asked. In the absence of any further clarity being provided today, I wish to go back to...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: With that additionality comes a great expectation that the Minister is placing on the teachers and SNAs who will be expected to deliver the programme. I want to talk further about the supports they might be offered. There was a lot about well-being in the Minister's opening contribution on this programme. What exactly does that look like in terms of the well-being programme in the schools?...