Results 2,521-2,540 of 3,426 for speaker:Gary Gannon

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]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (1 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: In the north inner city, sport has always been a great leveller and a great outlet for young people. Yet, in the Mulvey report, sport seems to be the great omission. The Taoiseach read out the list of funding initiatives but there is little that pertains to sport. There are two great soccer clubs in the north inner city, Sheriff Youth Club and Belvedere FC. Both play on an astroturf pitch...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (1 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: It was Corinthians Boxing Club. It is in the heart of the north inner city. They need a female changing room.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (1 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I think it was the council. That will need to be addressed because there is a great desire for boxing in the north inner city. The Seán MacDermott Street swimming pool remains closed. It has been closed for two years. The students in the Central Model Senior School in sixth class are running their own campaign. I would love to see them supported in this campaign to get the pool open...