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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a standardisation model was used in the leaving certificate 2019; and if so, the detail of the process of standardisation used by the State Examinations Commission prior to subsequent calculated grades and accredited grade models of standardisation. [4207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (27 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early school leavers in each of the years 2018 to 2021, in tabular form; and the latest data available for 2022, by county. [4209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The number of students in further and higher education that have dropped out during the academic year 2021-2022, by institution and year group, that is, first year, second year, third year and fourth year [4208/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it is next due to meet. [3076/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: One of the justifications the Government has given today for not affording students a hybrid leaving certificate is that 25% of the students do not have a junior certificate. I have never liked the leaving certificate but one of the arguments made in its favour by its proponents is that it is a fair exam that everybody sits on the same day. Now we have a scenario where three out of four...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: That is how privilege is locked in.

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I will begin by acknowledging that although many of the events I will speak of happened a mere couple of hours up the road, I find it difficult to relate to them because I was 11 when the Good Friday Agreement was signed. I never had to march with my family to seek justice from state forces. The bombs had grown silent by the time I would have been old enough to hear them. The peace was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the framework for sustainable funding for a centre (details supplied); the date of the last meeting between her Department and the centre; when the framework is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4815/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of alternative education which started in 2018 will be published; when the review was received by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with the organisers of a campaign (details supplied). [4816/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the pilot basic income scheme for artists will be eligible for comedians and comedy writers to apply for; if comedians and comedy writers are included in the definition of arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 316. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that well-being measurements will be included in the pilot basic income scheme for artists. [4838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to support women and pregnant persons with hyperemesis who face significant financial costs to access HSE recommended treatment of pyridoxine and doxylamine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 748. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any licensed brands for treating hyperemesis that have an application for reimbursement on the drugs payment scheme card and the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 746. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children waiting for assessment of needs by county and waiting periods of less than three months, three months plus, one year plus and two years plus. [4837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons that required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [4841/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I welcome a number of advocacy champions for the Irish Cancer Society who are in the Public Gallery, including Katie Lally, Pat O’Gorman and Léa Hearst. I also welcome Maria Fleming, who has been great advocate in Dublin Central and holds us all to account. I value the work they have done and I am proud to welcome them to the Dáil. The Social Democrats are proud to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: This morning, the Dáil unanimously passed a Social Democrats motion on the cost of cancer care. It was hugely welcome and it was a very unifying debate in the Chamber. The motion had three asks, namely, to abolish the €80 inpatient charge for those receiving cancer treatment, to direct the HSE to end the practice of using debt collectors to collect hospital charges from cancer...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that were suspended, cancelled or not awarded to lone parents due to failure to provide proof of efforts to seek maintenance for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. [5506/22]