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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]

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

Gary Gannon: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide additional supports, specifically extra time, for students with dyslexia undertaking the junior and leaving certificate examinations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24313/23]

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

Gary Gannon: 947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at third level. [24279/23]

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

Gary Gannon: 948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to €4,225 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [24280/23]

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

Gary Gannon: 950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to €2,415 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [24282/23]

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

Gary Gannon: 949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending a non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to €4,225 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [24281/23]

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

Gary Gannon: 951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending an adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to €2,415 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. [24283/23]

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: The defence and security challenges facing Ireland have never been more diverse and Ireland has perhaps never been so ill-equipped to handle them. Current geopolitical tensions across the world are being fuelled and intensified in the first instance by Russia's grotesque invasion of Ukraine. Before that was the rise of populism. The threats posed by accelerated climate change, energy and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I add my voice and that of my party in condemning the brutal scenes in Navan when a 14-year-old child was brutally assaulted. That should never take place. BeLonG To, the youth LGBT organisation, released figures today from 2022 research which found that 76% of young LGBTQI+ students in schools found schools to be unsafe. What is the Government doing to ensure schools and public spaces are...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the fruit and vegetable market in Dublin's north inner city (details supplied). [23664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she would support a review of the GAAGO subscription model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 68. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to discuss the need for a state-of-the-art sports facility in Alfie Byrne Park (details supplied). [23663/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his Department's work regarding housing in the Gaeltacht; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23662/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: Nobody doubts the scale of the challenge facing the State and communities all over the country in terms of providing shelter, welcome and safety to so many people who have travelled here over the past year. What I find unacceptable is the repetition of mistakes, time and again, that started almost last October in East Wall and have continued right up to Magowna this weekend. I want to ask...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: I commend Sinn Féin Deputies on bringing forward the Bill. We in the Social Democrats will absolutely support it. In January 2022, Deputies Connolly and Carthy asked parliamentary questions about the potential for Ireland recognising the State of Palestine. The then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, replied: The Government has pledged to honour our commitment to recognise...