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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget towards the proposed tax free pandemic recognition payment of €1,000; and the number of eligible frontline workers expected to avail of the payment. [5505/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for recipient's of jobseekers payments having to visit post offices to receive their payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5713/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: What is the rationale behind recipients of jobseeker's payments having to visit post offices to receive those payments and will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for her response. My question was motivated by a number of factors. For the life of me, I cannot understand why we are reverting to something that could be an inconvenience. I understand that social welfare payments to recipients were always made via post offices, but there was a break from the norm. During that time, was there evidence of an increase in welfare...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: It is without question that our post offices are vital pieces of infrastructure, but what other measures is the Government taking to rejuvenate them? People highlight any number of factors behind the decline of post offices, but there only appears to be one solution, that being, a procession of unemployed people having to travel to their post offices, stand in queues and receive payments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Russia's Foreign Policy and Security in Europe: Engagement with Ambassador of Russia (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the ambassador for joining us today. Irish neutrality is important to us. We wear it as a source of pride. The ambassador will have heard many members around the committee room already referencing it. Does the Russian Federation believe that the State is militarily neutral in world affairs? The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr. Sergei Lavrov, wrote to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the kinds of different results the total contribution approach produces for many retirees; if her Department has conducted a study of the implications of the total contributions approach for levels of pensioner poverty in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Websites (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the inaccessibility of paper-based applications for social welfare supports; and if she will consider making applications available online at MyWelfare.ie enhancing the independence of persons who are blind or vision impaired to populate and submit their applications independently. [5488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to conduct reviews of the workplace adaptation grant and reasonable accommodation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the introduction of a cost of disability following the publication of a report (details supplied). [5490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS primary schools operating with at least one autism class by county in tabular form; and the total number of autism classes. [5714/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools operating with at least one autism class by county in tabular form; and the total number of autism classes. [5715/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the recommendation from a report (details supplied) on the creation of the role of sexual misconduct prevention and response managers in further and higher education institutions and for that work to be supported full-time by a national and or sectoral representative and a panel of trained investigators. [5716/22]

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank Sinn Féin and in particularly Deputy Clarke for tabling this motion today. It is certainly a timely debate that needs to be had. The very antithesis of restorative justice is to retraumatise the victims. That is not the first time I have used those words in this Chamber related to a group of people, in particular women, who have been wronged in a most gruesome fashion. I have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Admissions (8 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase degree places for nursing and midwifery for September 2022 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6386/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Admissions (8 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: This relates to increasing the number of places in universities for nursing and midwifery. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Admissions (8 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: That is brilliant. I have a suggestion about where some of those places may come from. A couple of months ago my office was contacted by a young woman who took part in a QQI level 5 course in nursing. She got full distinctions on the course but was unable to access university because there were a limited number of places for people transitioning from QQI level 5 to nursing at university...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Admissions (8 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I do not need to dwell any more deeply on this. Last year, for example, 1,296 students were in colleges of further education who would have made exceptionally good nurses. They chose that pathway, studying for a year in the area, before finding there were very limited places for them in university. I worked in career guidance for early school-leavers, encouraging people to do nursing that...