Results 3,021-3,040 of 3,261 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cycle to Work Scheme (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the cycle to work scheme will be available for applications from education staff (detail supplied) in view of many school staff wishing to avail of the scheme with the reopening of schools due to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20526/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of post-primary teachers expected to retire during the first term of 2020/2021; and if this number has been factored into the recruitment of additional teachers within the roadmap for reopening schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20525/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Access to Higher Education (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of successful candidates with HEAR and DARE status from the Irish Universities Association, IUA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20527/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the other measures being considered to create disincentives to act in a manner which contravenes public health advice further to SI 242 of 2020; if consideration has been given to the potential of these statutory instruments targeting specific groups rather than society at large; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for her policy position in relation to SI 242 of 2020; her plans to implement the SI including detail on data sharing arrangements and the action of social welfare inspectors in airports; the documentation her Department is providing as proof to those affected by the statutory instrument; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the locations in which social welfare officers have carried out random inspections from 7 July 2020 to the most recent data available in tabular form. [20523/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending paid parental leave for one parent families which would result in them having the same level of support as two parent families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20524/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to address the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on disadvantaged communities; if her attention has been drawn to calls from an organisation (details supplied) to establish a special Oireachtas committee on poverty and inequality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19337/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: This question pertains to the prevalence of poverty in this country, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Has the Minister heard the calls from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which has acknowledged that the experience of the 700,000 people living in poverty has been compounded by the pandemic? It has asked for a special task force to be set up to examine poverty and inequality....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: This is a very specific matter regarding how we will confront the fact that poverty has been exacerbated during the pandemic. Poverty has a corrosive impact on people in every walk of life. We have had roadmaps but they have consistently missed their targets over the past ten years. What is being asked for by groups such as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and other social justice groups...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: I want to confront the old trope that the best way of getting people out of poverty is to get them into work. The Minister should tell that to the 160,000 people who were working and still experiencing poverty before the pandemic. Despite being in work, they still very much experienced poverty. The best way to get people out of poverty is to provide an appropriate social safety net so that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether artists should be entitled to the full rate of the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the number of persons in the arts sector that have both PAYE and self-employed incomes which is a disadvantage to them for the payment in view of the fact these incomes cannot be combined for the same year and in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that reported self-employed and PAYE income within the same year; and the number of applicants that were denied the full rate of the payment on that basis. [19017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidance hours for schools will be increased in 2020 in view of the disruption to all second level students and the increased need for student supports, in particular incoming first and sixth-year students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Maternity Leave (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 257. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has responded to a request to meet a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19541/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Maternity Leave (29 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has responded to a request to meet a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19540/20]

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: I commend Deputy Ó Laoghaire for bringing forward this motion. It is appropriate and the right time for us to have a discussion about classroom sizes. One of the interesting aspects of having been a local authority representative and coming from that background into the Dáil Chamber is that when a motion is on the clár for a local authority, it is taken very seriously. It is...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: The Chair should call the vote.

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: All the words that need to be spoken on this issue have been said. It is high time that we put it to a vote and see whether people will turn their rhetoric into action that will make a difference in people's lives. I support the amendment tabled by People Before Profit and Sinn Féin which aims to remove lines 33 to 38 of page 8, which is the proposed section 68L(1)(g). I ask that this...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: A Chathaoirligh, on a point of order-----