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Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: In this Chamber and indeed in this Republic we are no strangers to the word "crisis". What I find fascinating about its use and how it is regularly thrown around this Chamber is that the word "crisis", which means the same thing regardless of the context in which it is used, can evoke such a divergence of urgency from those in power, depending on who is impacted by it and who is at fault for...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I express my best wishes to EU ambassador Aidan O’Hara on what must have been an incredibly traumatic experience. I am going through the minutes of the EU Council meeting so I can differ from other contributors. What stood out for me was the EU’s strong condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for imposing import bans on Ukrainian grain and farm produce, and rightly so. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay in the progression of the permanent building for a school (details supplied), before and since inflationary issues have arisen. [17147/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a school (details supplied) will move from temporary accommodation. [17148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support measures in place for schools or neighbouring schools, impacted by the hold on 58 school building projects; if such extenuating circumstances impact re-allocation of teachers and/or prefabs; and which schools have been impacted in this way. [17149/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a decision has been taken to suppress a ninth teaching post for a school (details supplied), given that it is a developing school and projected enrolment numbers exceed both the required 215 and 231 pupils required to be eligible for an additional post. [17150/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for reversing the decision to allow a school (details supplied) permission to put in place a second block of prefabs for the 2023-2024 term. [17151/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 787. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hares captured from the wild for the 2022-2023 season; and how many times they were used during capture. [17153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 788. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of hares pinned, injured and killed during the 2022-2023 season. [17154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 1099. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of coursing clubs that were active in the 2022-2023 season. [17152/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 1100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any welfare studies have been conducted by his Deptartment or Veterinary Ireland on the physical and mental trauma hares suffer as a result of coursing. [17155/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 1101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any welfare studies have been conducted by his Department or Veterinary Ireland on the physical and mental trauma hares suffer as a result of coursing; and if not, the reasoning for allowing wild animals to be captured, traumatised, injured, and killed for the sake of entertainment and gambling. [17156/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 1539. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the lack of paediatric palliative care in the south-east region; if there are plans to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17146/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I want to speak about Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire, Parnell Square in Dublin 1. Some of the stories and the image given of the square paint a pretty negative picture of the building itself, but contained in it are incredible teachers and wonderful students who for decades have been failed by the infrastructure and not by the intention of those who teach and provide care within it....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for stepping in to give the response. I appreciate this is not his Department. I am also conscious that should an answer such as this be given about a school in his area, he would not be satisfied. None of us would be. I appreciate there are capital construction costs and increasing construction costs due to a number of factors, not least the war in Ukraine....

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: Bullying, harassment, intimidation, discrimination, assault and rape - what is hazing if not a form of torture? - are the conditions for women in the Defence Forces, as captured in this report. They are nothing short of medieval. The report by the independent review group has revealed heinous crimes of the very worst kind, many of which may still be happening to this day. The details and...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I acknowledge the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I must highlight the Minister's initial response. She set an unfortunate tone when she said that the motion represents yet another cynical attempt by the Opposition to undermine and misrepresent all that the Government continues to achieve in education. Are we not involved in successive campaigns by parents reaching...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister. [14895/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [14894/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on housing took place. [14893/23]