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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (17 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the steep increase in on-campus student accommodation costs in UCD; his views on whether this will be a barrier for those that wish to study in the university; if he has had engagement with UCD or the university’s student union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32784/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funds from the social housing budget returned unspent to the Exchequer from his Department in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form. [32490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 in today’s terms within a similar timeframe adjusting for inflation and accounting for the €397 million figure over five years outlined in the NCSE's 2006 implementation report on page 20. [32491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the domiciliary care allowance from €309.50 to €330 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32485/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding the free travel scheme to include persons in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32486/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the annual carer's support grant from €1,850 to €2,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of making the carer's allowance a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 to €350 per week for a single person and to €700 for a couple; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32489/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [29413/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I want to talk about compassion within our education and State examinations system. I am no fan of the current leaving certificate model but it worries me gravely that we are moving backwards and not forward when it comes to compassion for students. Compassionate leave was granted for the first time in 2019 to students who suffered a close family bereavement over the course of their written...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: The people in the High Court will be looking for a voice today.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: And there is now a review.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I put it to the Taoiseach that the Government is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on the mother and baby homes report. Today in the High Court, the State will strongly defend the report of the mother and baby homes commission in legal action brought by survivors against the report. Simultaneously, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Yazidi Community in Iraq: Yazda UK and Ireland (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the witnesses and I thank them for their incredible and powerful statements. My first question relates to the international process needed for the courts. I ask the witnesses to highlight precedents where such a process has happened previously. I refer, for example, to Rwanda where the international community and the UN Security Council has done something similar. I would also...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 31. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his position on the TRIPS waiver. [24198/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the removal of the vocational training opportunities scheme and back to education initiative courses from a college (details supplied). [30403/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and European Union division of his Department. [29412/21]

Situation in Belarus: Motion (1 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I never thought I would have to stand in our Parliament and describe a scene where Ryanair, an Irish airline, was effectively forced to perform a rendition flight between two European Union member countries, Greece and Lithuania. A rendition flight was performed on the order of the Belarusian, Alexander Lukashenko. It is an unprecedented outrage. I cannot begin to imagine the terror on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I want to divert the Taoiseach's attention to the report from the Irish Youth Foundation issued today, which I am sure he has seen. This report finds that young people in disadvantaged communities are those most disproportionately affected by the pandemic. This will not come as a surprise to many of us. The report talks about poor mental health as a consequence of the pandemic. We need a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (1 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in the north east inner city initiative. [28387/21]