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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who had an oral hearing for an appeal to the social welfare appeals office in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the benefits and allowances being appealed; and the number of appeals in which there was a favourable decision for the applicant in each benefit and allowance. [26266/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average length of time that an oral hearing appeals to the social welfare appeals office lasts. [26267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were in receipt of the blind pension and subjected to a review by her Department in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [26268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if alternative documentation can be accepted by her Department in cases in which persons who are non-EEA nationals and have an appropriate immigration stamp but are awaiting an Irish Residence Permit card for which there are delays and therefore cannot access much-needed social protection payments; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of women who were affected by the marriage bar before it was abolished in 1973; the number of women who have a reduced or no public service pension due to them having to leave their public-sector employment with the marriage bar; and the estimated cost of providing a public service pension to these women. [26959/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing core social welfare payments by €15, €20 and €30 per week in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the working family payment by €20, €30 and €40 per week for all recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing core social welfare payments and the working family payment by seven per cent in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26957/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (25 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current ratio of her Department's employment services case officers to clients; the current proportion of case officer clients who are lone parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26958/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: Returning to the issue of special education centres, I agree that language is important. Can the Tánaiste imagine the shudder of fear that went through families with children with special or additional needs last night when they heard the phrase "special education centres"? The Government asks us for our trust. The Tánaiste says the policy is integration, yet the practice now...

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak today on this important subject. I recognise the work that has been undertaken by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on the issue of apprenticeships. My contribution is not intended for the Minister of State but more to have a discussion about apprenticeships on the whole. Who they are for? Who may...

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for joining us today. I am very conscious that in a debate lasting over two hours, parliamentarians across the Chamber will be standing up and effectively saying the same thing. While that is frustrating for us, I imagine it is more frustrating for the thousands of people who have been left frustrated by this issue. We all accept the Passport Office's...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: I want to add my voice to the call for statements on special education this week. It is a real shame that on the last day of May, SNA allocations still have not been announced. This is a sad indictment of how the Department treats those at the front line who are providing essential services to children in our schools. It is vital that we have statements on these issues towards the end of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Gary Gannon: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the leaders of the political parties in Northern Ireland following the Stormont elections. [26206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Consultations (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 198. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to list the disability consultative groups and members of these groups that her Department engages with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27503/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 308. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport of a child (details supplied) will issue. [27507/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 307. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the behaviour of the Israeli riot police who stormed a group of mourners as they attempted to carry the coffin of a Palestinian-American journalist (details supplied) from a hospital in east Jerusalem to a church in the Old City and the fact that police fired stun grenades and used batons to beat...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 325. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports on the activities of the Israeli military in the past weeks against the Palestinian people (details supplied); and the additional action that he proposes to take at national and European Union-level to advance a solution and alleviate the suffering of these Palestinian communities. [27634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a press release from one of the organisations (details supplied) involved in the recently published review of out-of-school education provision, which states that the data it provided in relation to the number of students achieving the Leaving Certificate was misrepresented in page 51 of the report; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (31 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the data provided by each of the organisations involved in the recently published review of out-of-school education provision in relation to the number of students achieving the Leaving Certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27506/22]