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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: Has the Department of Education been involved to this point? What are the timelines for the involvement of the Department with the Minister, Deputy McEntee's cross-departmental approach to combating men's violence against women? Can the Minister, Deputy Foley, update us on that particular work? Specifically, what role has the Department of Education had to this point? Will this feature in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I begin by expressing my revulsion, the revulsion of my party and I am sure the revulsion of all of us across the House, at the latest war crime committed by Russia in Ukraine, namely, the bombing of a maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol. A picture from that atrocity of a heavily pregnant and bloodied woman being stretchered away from the smouldering ruins of the hospital is on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: Many of the ideas the Minister has suggested are welcome. They are good ideas. In the first instance, as the Ukrainian people arrive here we need to recognise the trauma they have experienced. That needs to be met first. The idea of employing Ukrainian teachers has a lot of merit. The people coming over here are going to be looking at their cities under siege, maternity hospitals being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the recommendation from the Joint Committee on Education to provide emotional counselling and therapeutic supports on site in all primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review on alternative education will be published; and the reason for the delay. [13535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support the education and emotional needs of Ukrainian children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the reprofiling exercise originally planned to take place in 2021 will be conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 205. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will review the impact of participation in the basic income for artists scheme on existing social protection supports, in particular if artists in receipt of payments, such as a disability payment, will not be precluded from participating in the scheme, given the proposed trial is to be launched imminently....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to two Irish medical students (details supplied) currently in the Sumy State University in Ukraine. [13703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to calls by Irish students studying medicine in Ukraine seeking to continue their education to become doctors; if assistance will be provided to them to transfer them home to study at medical schools here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13704/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: We all are aware of the statements the Russian ambassador made to the Russian television station, Russia-24, in which he described Ireland as being a hotbed of anti-Russian sentiment. I do not think anyone here is anti-Russian but we certainly are anti-Putin and we are opposed to the federation in which he is involved. Did the Minister talk to the ambassador about his statement to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: He said we were anti-Russian.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: They are not.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I just came from a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in which we had a presentation from Dóchas, the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, and others. It was a really sobering and genuinely terrifying presentation. I wanted to wait until I heard some of the testimonies from those witnesses on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere before I came into...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: Undoubtedly, nobody in the Chamber condones the behaviour of a landlord exploiting somebody who is seeking accommodation for personal sexual benefit. Condemnation is not the same as action, however, and I thank my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, for being the one to take action against this predatory behaviour, as well as journalist Ms Ann Murphy of the Irish Examinerfor her critical...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the hot school meals programme. [14878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on her engagement with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media on the pilot of the basic income scheme for artists in relation to artists on the pilot scheme being able to retain social protection payments, specifically in relation to artists with disabilities. [14876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a commitment will be given to carry out an investigation into the high rate of refusal for the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any options for persons who have survived serious illness including cancer to continue working for a limited number of hours per week and to continue to avail of their public service pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all statues of persons in parks managed by the OPW in Dublin by the name of the statue and park in which it is located. [15096/22]