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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 438 of 1 June 2021 459 of 22 February 2022, if she will facilitate a meeting between her Departmental officials with parents and guardians of a school (details supplied) [15086/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who classified under category C of the home tuition grant scheme from 2018-2021 (details supplied); and the expenditure in this category in tabular form. [15087/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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 pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of rent that has been agreed to be paid to the Catholic church for the use of a school (details supplied) in Nenagh, County Tipperary; and the length of time that this arrangement in place. [15092/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a similar arrangement has been in place for the other almost one dozen schools nationwide that were reconfigured from Catholic patronage to ETBs; if so, the amount that is being paid to the various dioceses; and if this is the plan for future reconfigurations. [15093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the State agreed to allow the bishop in the relevant dioceses to choose which body becomes the patron of a reconfigured school; and the position in relation to parental choice. [15094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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 pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15089/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he received correspondence from this Deputy on 9 March 2022 in relation to parents of Irish citizens who hold a stamp 4 and cannot access SUSI; and if he will issue a response. [15095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 1104. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has liaised with the health and education authorities on increasing places in third-level institutions for the training of radiographers and sonographers as outlined in the National Cancer Strategy; if so, the outcome of such engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (24 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 68. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the inequality facing one parent families in relation to parent's leave; if the matter will be examined for Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14877/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank our guests for their presentation, which was sobering and terrifying. What is the vaccination status of the refugees who are congregating? Such a large number of people congregating will, inevitably, create significant risks. I am about to make a statement in the Dáil regarding the upcoming European Council meeting. Is there anything we can push in that regard? Global food...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the contributors. I had a number of questions, but time is short and they have answered many of them. In terms of the confluence of crises that are happening at present, the huge levels of displacement, war, a global pandemic and food shortages, are we even conscious of what is upon us at both national and European level? The witnesses work in humanitarian organisations and must be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I wish to raise the scenes in Dublin Airport over the weekend. We all watched on with a sense of dismay and bewilderment at the scenes of would-be travellers crammed into the departure lounge, some unable to go on their holidays owing to the absence of security staff. What assurances has the Government sought from the Dublin Airport Authority that these scenes will not be repeated?...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the provision for Ukrainian pupils with care needs requiring SNA support will be provided; if schools are to apply through the exceptional review process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16721/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (29 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average timeline for an exceptional review to be completed. [16722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (29 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pilot workshops on trauma informed approaches from the National Educational Psychological Service have been delivered; and if the national roll-out is still planned for the 2022-2023 academic year. [16723/22]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: The Social Democrats welcome this People Before Profit Bill which provides for a referendum to properly define our neutrality stance. As it currently stands, Articles 28 and 29 of our Constitution outline our position of neutrality. However, the wording around the definition of neutrality is vague, to say the least. Essentially, in the main it allows the Government of the day to determine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 90. To ask the Minister for Health the way that pregnant women arriving from the Ukraine to Ireland are being supported; if health checks are taking place in the airports; if he is liaising with maternity hospitals regarding the way to support these women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Fire Safety (31 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 341. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to issues in relation to a school (details supplied) in regard to the need for a fire safety certificate; and if he will intervene in the matter to ensure this vital service to the local community can remain in operation in the long-term. [17405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (31 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a post-primary school (details supplied) that was given Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, status in 2017 that was never partnered with a college, university access office; the reason for the delay; and if the Higher Education Authority, HEA, will respond to the school request to be linked...