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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]

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]