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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: Some of the points I intended raising have already been made so I will stick to those that have not been raised. On the issue of accession to the EU, we welcome the decision to grant candidacy status to both Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, as discussed at the most recent European Council meeting. However, it would be remiss of me not to speak about Georgia in great detail, as many...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 289. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport of a person (details supplied) will be issued given that they are due to fly soon. [38748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the jobseeker's allowance for those young persons under 25 years of age who are currently on the weekly rate of €117.70 to the maximum personal rate of €208 for those aged 25; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the jobseeker's allowance for those young persons under 25 years of age who are currently on the weekly rate of €117.70 by €45.15 per week to €162.85; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine regulations that exclude persons with disabilities from entering into self-employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make the blind pension, disability allowance and or the invalidity pension a secure support for disabled persons in self-employment which would level the playing field with non-disabled persons. [38780/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: The Dáil is about to rise for the summer and as it does, the Government leaves a trail of housing misery in its wake. The Government has earned the dubious distinction of breaking a number of housing records. A record number of people are now homeless, including an increase of nearly 50% in the number of children who have become homeless in the past year. Rents are at record high and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: I am also conscious of the large number of questions that have already been asked. Would the Minister like to respond to them first? Then I can come back with my questions. I do not want my questions to be lost in the flurry of questions that have already been asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: Within that urgency, I would like some answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: I intend to be brief in view of what the Chair has just outlined. I thank the Minister for coming in. I echo the sentiments regarding our UN mission. It has been fantastic. I commend everybody involved. Will the Minister explain the Government's position on the decision in respect of Georgia's candidacy for accession to the EU? I am concerned that the decision not to grant candidacy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (7 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work of the established sub-group of the national advisory forum for Ireland’s framework for doctoral education specifically in relation to PhD students and the issues of precarity and low pay that they face. [36765/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that his Department is supporting incoming first year students from the national access routes HEAR and DARE; if he is concerned about the impact of orientation programmes for these students due to the release date of the leaving certificate results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36764/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (7 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is working with the Department of Social Protection to reinstate SUSI maintenance grant for lone parents in receipt of the back to education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (7 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 220. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application for a child (details supplied) will be issued on time given that they are due to travel in one weeks’ time. [36966/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (7 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI eligibility will be extended to students studying part-time in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (7 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced Innovate for Ireland partnership will be open to applications from persons conducting PhD research in the arts and humanities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36965/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: There is a myth of free education in this country. Yesterday's measures were an acknowledgement of that. They were driven by the level of fear and anxiety from parents contacting all of our offices including the Minister's talking about their dread over the cost of their children returning to school in September. It was estimated that €236 million would provide a fully free primary...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: It would take €236 million.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: The Government can provide €450 million for developers.

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy Cairns for bringing forward this motion and acknowledge those in the Visitors Gallery who have travelled here today to stand once again for their basic rights. In particular I acknowledge my friend, Emilie Conway, from the Disabled Artists & Disabled Academics Group and her colleague, Jackie Conboy, who for the second week have come to the Dáil to demand basic...