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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the development of the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter; and if he is aware of the decay and degeneration of the currently vacant Ambassador Theatre in Dublin 1. [6880/24]

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I echo the words of so many on the welcome return of power-sharing in the North. As a student of history and as someone who has sat in this Chamber for the past four years, the words "historic" and "monumental" are too often overused. The scenes of Michelle O'Neill as Northern Ireland's First Minister and Emma Little-Pengelly as deputy First Minister were, however, truly historic and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a role for her Department in providing devices (details supplied) pursuant to Circular 0010/2013. [6835/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether, if a child is in receipt of assistive technology, this technology typically stays with the school; the procedure required for reapplication for such devices where the device does not follow the individual to the next setting, i.e., secondary school or new school; if parents have to provide a new professional report; if individuals...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: More important still is the need to ascertain whether, in next year's allocation, the complex needs of individual students will be disregarded within the criteria. Will the Minister of State clarify that? Where a student has a multitude of complex issues, will that be disregarded? If that is the case, it is a retrograde step. It is not just me saying this. I genuinely have no interest in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: There was not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: You are wrong in what you are saying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Complex needs will not be captured by standardised tests. That is the crux of the argument as to why this is a poor mechanism for categorising complex needs. A multitude of different complex needs are individualised to students within the school setting. That will not be captured under the new model. I again assure the Minister of State that I did not wake up this morning and decide to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: They are not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the contents of her Department’s Circular 0002/2024 provides for additional therapeutic, behavioural and psychological supports for schools, given the current lack thereof, which remains a major barrier to fully inclusive education; and to provide an explanation for the reduction of allocated SET hours for schools around the country....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Will the Minister for Education outline how the contents of her Department’s Circular 0002/2024 provides for additional therapeutic, behavioural and psychological supports for schools, given the current lack thereof, which remains a major barrier to fully inclusive education, and will she provide an explanation for the reduction of allocated special education teaching, SET, hours for...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "recognises" and substitute the following: "— public service journalism - accurate and impartial reporting in the public interest – is a central pillar of Irish society and democracy; — confidence in Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) has reached an all-time low as a result of successive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of young carers as a target group for educational supports, such as Tusla’s school completion programme, given the ESRI’s findings that young people who care for a relative are less likely to move on to higher education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the work conducted by the National Education Psychological Service (NEPS) in schools in Dublin 1 since November 2023; the number of therapy sessions provided by NEPS by each school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6345/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she and her Department will commit to an enhanced safety audit of schools in vulnerable and high traffic areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6346/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Departmental information is regularly communicated to school staff after 5pm, given their right to disconnect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6344/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he and his Department are taking to ensure that no products from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine are imported into Ireland; if he and his Department are taking measures to prevent Irish goods being exported to Israeli companies which are complicit in the illegal settlement of Palestinian land; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has liaised with the Garda Commissioner regarding safety measures for businesses employing members of the migrant community in the city centre following rioting in Dublin. [53624/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that on 7 January 2024, in an interview with RTÉ radio, that the Taoiseach made explicit mention to the Armenian genocide, and if this reference marks a change of course by Ireland in officially recognising that the Armenian people suffered a genocide during the First World War. [5722/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance when the rent tax credit of €750 will be paid out to those who have listed the tax credit on their Revenue Commissioner's account on or before 1 January; and the length of time a person will have to wait to receive their payment if they were to list their rent tax credit now or on any given day. [5724/24]