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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Gary Gannon: 803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age who are in receipt of a rate of a jobseekers' allowance other than €129.70 and €220 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27441/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (13 Jun 2023)

Gary Gannon: 1353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his awareness of the issues of the subsidisation of college-owned student accommodation but not for extensions of already built accommodation; if he plans to review this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27597/23]

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, for bringing forth this timely and important motion. Fine Gael claims to be many things. It claims, for example, to be the party of law and order and yet we cannot see gardaí on the streets. I certainly do not think that people across Dublin city, including those in my constituency, would believe this claim holds any weight. Fine Gael...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I wish to ask about voluntary contributions in schools. A report published by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul today found that, of the 1,500 respondents to its survey, more than 90% said that they were going without because they would have to cover the voluntary contribution, which is only rarely voluntary. Some 671,000 people are at risk of poverty and one would imagine that many of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (25 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for the response, in particular in regard to Alfie Byrne Park. It is not a place that many people in the city are aware of as it is somewhat out of the way, just off the North Strand, between Clontarf and East Wall. However, it is a place of massive opportunity. What it requires, which is why I am raising it in the House today, is leadership from all arms of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (25 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter. I want to discuss the need for a state-of-the-art sports complex in the park beside the Alfie Byrne Road. I hope this is not seen as a politician asking for a specific request for his constituency because technically this is outside my constituency. The park serves an enormous number of people in the constituencies of Dublin Central and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the possible effects on pensioner poverty of the proposed total contributions approach, given that it deals on a pro rata basis with people who do not qualify for the maximum payment, rather than using bands which serve to uplift the benefit people receive, as under the current averaging...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the possible effects on pensioner poverty of the proposed total contributions approach, given that it deals on apro ratabasis with people who do not qualify for the maximum payment, rather than using bands which serve to uplift the benefit people receive, as under the current averaging system; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: No, not really. I realise I am stating the obvious in saying that paying a lower State pension to a larger number of pensioners would lead to higher levels of poverty among older people in this country. However, I have to say it, because we fear that is what will happen under the total contributions approach. There is a certain minimum amount of money that older people need to retire with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: How many people start working at 55? I do not think that is a fair analysis. Older people in Ireland usually have the lowest rates in poverty and deprivation of any age group. The State pension is solely responsible for this. At any one time, 85% of older people in Ireland would live below the poverty line if it were not for the State pension. Even for better off pensioners who do not...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: What is the State's playbook? I ask this because in the absence of one, we are behind and we need to step forward. We need to meet these challenges. There is an assault on decency in this country. We need to recommit ourselves to confronting it every step of the way. That will require a coherent plan of action going forward, because this will be with us for the long term.

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: As we are asked to speak about the accommodation needs of new arrivals, I think it appropriate to begin by quoting from the first article of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Article 1 has ten words. It merely states: “Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected.” The Minister will be aware that in April of this year, in a case taken by a person who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 35. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine will next meet. [22918/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [22917/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: Dublin is one of the only capital cities in Europe or the world that operates without a municipal market, yet on both sides of the Liffey, north and south, there are large infrastructural buildings lying idle. For many decades, markets were where generations of working-class people throughout the city made their money. Yet, in the hands of Dublin City Council, certainly on the north side of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I wish to raise the issue of visibility and safety for members of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, LGBTQI, community among both faculty and students in schools. BeLong To research from last year showed that more than three-quarters of LGBTQI students feel unsafe in post-primary schools. The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, INTO, LGBT+ teachers’...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22916/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will introduce a social energy tariff, targeted at households on means-tested social welfare payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will adjust the rate of fuel allowance in a way which will be determined by a strong evidence base on the minimum energy needs of households; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24644/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of running the Covid Learning and Support Scheme, CLASS, 2021-2022; and the total number of beneficiaries. [24284/23]