Results 1,181-1,200 of 3,260 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Will the Minister clarify the process by which chairs of the review into PhD conditions were selected and provide details of the remuneration awarded to the chairs?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: My intention in tabling the question was to find out facts, so I do not really have anything to debate, although I do have a request. Will the Minister engage with the chairs to see whether they will meet the soon-to-be-formed postgraduate workers’ organisation as the body that will represent PhD researchers? If the Minister has not met representatives of an earlier iteration of this...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin. It is of paramount importance that we address the cost-of-living crisis with urgency and action. I fear that the gravity of the term "cost of living" is being lost on members of the Government. Perhaps the Society of St. Vincent de Paul captured it better when it talked of the cost of survival, which is experienced in people's homes every single...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I believe we are now six years into the north east inner city task force following the Mulvey report and €38 million has been spent. Where is the record of achievement? Deputy McDonald asked for a review. I would like a review. The Taoiseach may remember that the reason the north east inner city task force was initiated to combat drug related crime, poverty and dereliction in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the north-east inner city task force. [5887/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: When the Taoiseach answers the Deputies' questions, in particular those of Deputies Haughey and Tóibín, will he explain the complications for a person seeking sanctuary in Ireland coming from Eritrea, for example, where they do not have the capacity to get a passport in the way we do, or a person fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, where passports have not been issued since 2021, or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to request the chairs of the review into PhD conditions to contact an organisation (details supplied); and to meet with the organisation as the body representing PhD researchers in Ireland. [6934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the progress of the national review into PhD conditions; if he will provide a full work plan for the review as laid out by the chairs; the meetings the chairs have had or plan to have with stakeholders; and the anticipated date of completion for the review. [6932/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason social welfare payments to single mothers, such as the one-parent family payment, are reduced if their ex-partner is still contributing to the family's mortgage payments. [6935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6936/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for details of the average social welfare appeals processing times in weeks for summary decisions and oral hearings, by scheme. [6937/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Minister had to ask whether the school was part of the programme. Action to alleviate poverty cannot be based on a roulette wheel of which schools have hot meals and which do not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the steps she intends to take to eradicate child poverty. [6395/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: What steps does the Department intend to take to eradicate child poverty, particularly in light of the Taoiseach's remark that a unit would be set up in his Department to combat child poverty?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: When we ask these questions, we get to throw the ball in the air and the Minister gets to tell us all the great things the Government is doing. It is just the nature of them.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Exactly. However, 163,936 children in this country still live in consistent poverty according to the data presented last year. These are children without access to two warm coats and if their shoes are damaged, their parents are unable to replace. Regardless of whether the child goes hungry, there is certainly an adult in his or her house who does. I welcomed the fact that when the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I appreciate fully that poverty is multidimensional. I hope it goes across all Departments. The Ombudsman for Children asked for a child poverty strategy to be embedded in all Departments and I welcome this call. At its basis, poverty, whether that is childhood poverty or the poverty of a family, is about what a person is being asked to go without, such as food, warm clothes, shoes or the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the legal basis on which welfare inspectors are entitled to enter a person’s home. [6173/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the gender pay gap report from his Department. [5889/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 45. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [5890/23]