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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made and timelines for the provision of a permanent building for a school (details supplied); if extra provisions will be provided for the upcoming term to ensure safety of staff and students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (6 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the model of allocation being used for SNA allocation for the academic year 2020-2021 and 2021-2022; when the allocations will be published for 2020-2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23602/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for her Department not including students under the applied education programme who are living with very high risk family members; if her attention has been drawn to an article (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23604/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (4 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I want to begin with the issue of the TRIPS waiver. Notable commentators, such as our own Mary Robinson, have been to the forefront of calling for a TRIPS waiver. It would not be a simplistic position to take. The idea of partnership began when more than €5 billion of public funding went into the pharmaceutical companies in Ireland to...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: My thanks to the Labour Party for bringing forward this important Private Members' motion. My thanks go to the previous contributors for outlining their personal experiences on the issue as well. Those of us in the Social Democrats are highly supportive of the motion. An emerging theme in most of the contributions in the Dáil in recent months has been the issues that we cannot...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: We have heard time and again that nobody is safe until everybody is safe, in the context of vaccine justice and equity. Tomorrow, the World Trade Organization, WTO, meets to discuss the potential waiver of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS. The Tánaiste is our Minister with responsibility for trade. I asked the Taoiseach this question at...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: Public money.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 57. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 22 April 2021, the reason for the refusal to extend the scheme beyond 2021; the reason the scheme is not being extended to the vital air crew and technicians that underpin all aviation operations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22556/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Education Act 1998 will be amended or reviewed in order for ethos to no longer be used as a barrier to the effective, objective and factual teaching of the relationships and sexuality education curriculum to which each student is entitled which was recommended in the Report on Relationships and Sexuality Education by the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a programme (details supplied); if the programme been has accessed for inclusivity of LGBTQI+ relationships and experiences; her views on whether it is appropriate that religion is used as a vehicle for relationships and sexuality education in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 158. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 25 March 2021, when the disability social care demand and capacity requirements up to 2032 will be published and available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22555/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: I have a similar question. Today, President Biden stated that the US would be in a position to share vaccine know-how. What is the Irish position in relation to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS, and could we communicate it in advance of the WTO meeting on Friday and show moral leadership on this issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: What of TRIPS?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: Ireland and TRIPS.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: The programme for Government contains a commitment to establish a citizens’ assembly on the future of education and states that the voices of young people and those being educated are central. This week, once again, our system, in the manner in which we teach our children, has been exposed either in the buildings that they are in or in the lessons that they are being taught as being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date on the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [20537/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with foreign affairs will next meet. [17186/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: It is a source of pride to the people of the Irish nation that whenever we have seen an injustice, be it famine or conflict, we have always stood up and played our part. In that vein, India is in peril. Medical staff are on their knees, hospitals are overwhelmed and crematoriums cannot keep pace with the number of people who are dying due to the coronavirus. I am aware of the welcome news...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Consultation Process (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 303. To ask the Minister for Finance the proposed membership make-up of the recently launched Commission on Taxation and Welfare; the qualifications required for membership of the Commission; the methodology used for ensuring balance and a broad range of perspectives among members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22353/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks (28 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the locations of the temporary toilet facilities for the Phoenix Park; and the expected duration these facilities will be in place for. [22359/21]