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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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Payments (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions have been made to financially support lone parents unable to work due to lack of childcare during mandatory school and childcare closures. [4983/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if regular social welfare payments will be advanced in order to reduce the need for persons to attend post and social welfare offices. [4990/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the fuel allowance period to the end of April 2020 to help persons with additional heating costs associated with self-isolation and illness. [4991/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Payments (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the working family payment will continue to be paid to families even if there is a reduction in their working hours. [4992/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gas and Electricity Disconnections (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to pausing all energy disconnections and social welfare sanctions. [4994/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Community (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provisions made for members of the Mincéirí in overcrowded accommodation with little access to water during the Covid-19 outbreak (details supplied). [4984/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist persons in the private rented sector during the COVID-19 crisis; and his further plans to assist the self-employed, freelancers and those in the gig economy that will not be able to work during self-isolation and may fall behind on rents as a result. [4985/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist persons in the private rented sector during the Covid-19 crisis; and his further plans to assist persons that will not be able to pay the rent due to the shortfall between the higher €305 a week illness benefit rate and normal wages in circumstances in which the employer refuses to top-up the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist persons in the private rented sector during the Covid-19 crisis; and his further plans to assist persons that will be unable to pay their rent due to self-isolation. [4987/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (13 May 2020)

Gary Gannon: 1290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist people in the private rented sector during the Covid-19 crisis; and his further plans to assist persons that are self-isolating and have an upcoming notice of termination which requires them to leave the property. [4988/20]