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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on her Department’s strict adherence to the school-teacher ratio which has led to the suppressing of the developing school post of a school (details supplied) and in turn has led to the loss of a teacher and the forced amalgamation of senior and junior infants from two classrooms under two teachers, to one classroom with 31...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether there is a substitute crisis in primary and secondary schools; the number of days in the academic year 2021-2022 that have gone uncovered by a qualified substitute teacher in both primary and secondary; and the number of days that have been left without cover or covered by a special education teacher in both primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of all of the leave taken in the primary sector for each of the school years 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021; and the days that were covered by a qualified substitute. [51310/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: When it comes to the city of Dublin, who exactly is in control? Right now, there is a sense that the city is in decline and there is nobody at the wheel. The programme for Government makes provision for a directly elected mayor but the concern is that by the time it becomes a reality, it will be too late. If we are to be effective in preserving our culture and maintaining the aesthetic and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a school (details supplied) that has no engineering or metalwork teacher and has been unable to source a teacher through advertisements resulting in the second and third year metalwork and sixth year engineering academic year groups going untaught; if she will engage with the school to put a solution in place...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: In years past, there was an energy around Leinster House on budget day. It could be felt in Kildare Street and it was usually palpable, with protests, advocacy groups and the air ripe with the potential for change, new commitments and an opportunity to showcase ambition and leadership. Fundamental change and absolute ambition are qualities that, with our housing and climate crises and as we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are to be taken when local arrangements that facilitate the pupils to be supervised in a manner that does not involve them being split between existing classes as under circular 50/21 section 6; and her views on whether this amounts to removing special education teacher support to supervise classes when no substitute is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours that were banked nationally past year; and the way this would equate on a pro-rata basis if school buildings had been open for the full 183 days of the school year. [50116/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of engagement with the education stakeholders prior to the announcement of circular 50/21 section 6; and if it was accepted by them. [50117/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will establish the estimated costs of fully implementing the remaining sections and subsections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; if she plans to review the Act in view of changing needs and priorities as stated by her colleague Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion in February 2021;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, maximum and minimum times taken for reviews on SNA allocation to be completed by the NCSE over the past three years in tabular form. [50119/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkey-Ireland Relations: Engagement with Ambassador of Turkey (12 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank the ambassador for his statement. I have a question about Turkey's role in the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Does the ambassador have any comments on the recent conflict in that region? Does he believe that the issue of drone warfare, particularly in that conflict, would aid a further destabilisation of tensions and add new dimensions to warfare in that region? I also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkey-Ireland Relations: Engagement with Ambassador of Turkey (12 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: This is not a follow-up question. I asked who else in the region Turkey is providing such support to. Is Turkey selling drones to Morocco, for example, similar to the way it is selling to Azerbaijan?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether including PhD stipends and scholarship awards for a PhD from the means test for the one family payment is an active barrier facing students who are parenting alone or heading one parent families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48688/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the absence of statistical data on the use of site visits including home visits by social welfare inspectors; her views on whether this lack of statistical data is appropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48691/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to providing a hot school meal for every DEIS school in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48690/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove PhD stipends and scholarship awards for PhDs from means-tested social welfare payments as she has already done for the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48689/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a plan is in place to address the under staffing in Dublin City Fire Brigade resulting in an overreliance on overtime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48734/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staffing number for Dublin City Fire Brigade for the past five years in tabular form. [48735/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been an increase in the use of overtime used in Dublin City Fire Brigade over the past five years; his views on whether this is obscuring a staffing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48736/21]