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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]

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...

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...

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]

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]

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...

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...