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Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: Could I use my time to ask a question, receive an answer, ask another question and receive another answer?

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: Brilliant. I thank the Minister for taking the time to speak to us this evening. I want to ask her about recommendation 5 of the framework to reopen schools. I will read it out just so she knows what I am referring to. It states "For those larger classes which remain difficult to accommodate consider a live streaming of that class to another room or area in the school." I have contacted...

Adjournment of Dáil: Motion (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: It is imperative that we continue to sit, particularly on the subject of the reopening of schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address literacy and numeracy levels for students particularly those returning to DEIS schools in cases in which there was a pre-existing gap prior to Covid-19; if this will involve an essential increase in teacher continuous professional development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19384/20]

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

Gary Gannon: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support will be provided and or the suggested recourse for schools vetting new non-teaching staff in view of time constraints and the significant administrative burden on schools preparing to reopen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19335/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reduction in the curriculum for incoming sixth years and changing the leaving certificate examinations in 2021 has been investigated to reflect the disruption to learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19336/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to levies on airlines to discourage unnecessary foreign travel; and if so, the other statutory instruments on the aviation industry that will be considered or implemented to achieve this public health goal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20528/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: 353. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to employees and employers being impacted by the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20531/20]

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...