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Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: On Thursday last, I raised an issue with the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Josepha Madigan, who referred me to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Some 23,000 artists and freelance technicians who make their work in the arts will not be able to return to work any time soon because their jobs require crowds, which present a danger. They will...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister and certainly echo those sentiments. I am interested in the sort of data we are collecting and collating at the moment and how we are going to apply the data. I have seen some statistics from the Office for National Statistics in the UK and they are really grim. They concern the occupations with the highest death rates linked to Covid-19 and, as one would imagine, the...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will make a brief opening statement and then ask questions and I might get the answers one after another if possible. There was much to admire in the Department's response to the Covid-19 crisis. It was swift and I cannot imagine the amount of work the officials and staff throughout the country engaged in. We really do owe them a debt of gratitude as we do to the Minister. She is the...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I will not ask the Minister to comment on this but we need to consider who is in the room when these decisions are made. If trade union representatives were in the room, these gaps in the provisions, which exclude people, could be identified earlier. If we are going to be making further amendments, we probably need to widen the process of who is being included in the considerations. There...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: Is it not Fine Gael's time?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being put forward to protect post leaving certificate students similar to the leaving certificate in view of the fact students have had their learning significantly interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic; and if it will be recommended to higher level institutions that these places be dedicated to students coming from post-leaving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision will be going ahead in 2020; and if so, the timeframe and manner for same in order to provide clarity to students, parents and teachers that are due to take part in the scheme. [7004/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if the measures for PPE for clinical speech and language therapists will be confirmed in view of the fact the lack of full recognition of elements of their work, for example, dysphagia and swallowing disorders are not recognised as an aerosol generating procedure placing them at an increased risk in their work. [7006/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 814. To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to the ownership of the proposed site for the new national maternity hospital; if the site will be brought into full public ownership in view of the announcement by a religious order (details supplied) that it is to divest itself of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group which in turn is to transfer to St. Vincent’s Holdings CLG;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 payment will be prolonged beyond the current timeframe for artists and freelance technicians involved in the artistic industry (details supplied). [7003/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1429. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a detailed set of guidelines will be presented on the way in which artistic spaces and venues, be they large or small, should re-open when the appropriate time is announced; and the way in which venues should appropriately enact social distancing measures while maintaining the commercial viability of their venue. [7001/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1430. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if capital costs will be offered to artistic and cultural spaces to support the re-opening of these amenities. [7002/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1431. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if announcements of financial supports will be made to assist freelance technicians who could not be classified as artists but are essential to the functioning of the industry and have been equally as affected by the Covid-19 crisis. [7007/20]

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I am thinking about the actual guidelines about how theatres can actually open.

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: As Ireland emerges from this crisis, we are going to need our arts community more than ever. When the time comes that we can gather in groups with our friends or families it will be our artists, through their music, drama and artistic content, that will be the focal point of that much needed and much longed-for gathering. We are going to rely on our artists to help us laugh again....

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I feel that we will need some physical guidelines from the Department on how theatres can open. I will move on to artists' payments. We have accepted that €203 in unemployment benefit is not enough for a person to live off. We have already crossed that Rubicon. According to the 2016 census, some 23,000 people make their living from art, including artists and the freelance...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: Does the Department envision providing capital grants that will enable artistic spaces to open? I am thinking particularly of community spaces which will not be able to fund many of the requirements to enhance safe social distancing measures.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: I am conscious of the Minister's statement that exceptional students in disadvantaged schools will not be disadvantaged. Whereas students performing normally in fee-paying schools or other schools will be grand, it is only the exceptional students in disadvantaged schools who will not be put out. That seems like an inherent disadvantage to me. Something you learn when you grow up in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if reassurance will be provided to the staff at a facility (details supplied) that once the current health emergency has alleviated they will be permitted to return to their place of work. [4995/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supplementary welfare allowances will be made available to support low-income lone parents caring for sick and self-isolating loved ones that cannot afford unpaid leave. [4993/20]