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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the attention of her Department has been drawn to issues relating to the recruitment and retention of school principals; and if so, the actions that it is taking to address them. [52036/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of principal vacancies in schools across the country. [52037/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school principals who have retired from their post between since 2018 to date in 2022; and in which school they formerly worked. [52038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update to an organisation (details supplied) on his promise to consult it in various relevant committees convened from within his Department, including fund the future committees. [51695/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhD researchers who have dropped out of their studies in the past three years in tabular form. [51696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the setting-up of the independent radiation therapist review; and if he will commit to implement any recommendations which could emanate from the review dealing with the crisis in recruitment and retention of radiation therapists and or service improvements including advanced practice and safe...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which are still enforcing visiting rules which were brought into effect during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically relating to end-of-life circumstances and childbirth; and the details of these restrictions in each hospital. [52039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 852. To ask the Minister for Health the conditions which are required for hospitals to ease visiting restrictions which were brought into effect during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically relating to end-of-life circumstances and childbirth. [52040/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank our contributors today from Justice for Colombia. I will get down to the brass tacks of the issues impacting Colombia. President Petro has made some recent statements in relation to the drugs trade and its impact on Colombia. Can Mr. Dodwell go into some of the international complicity in terms of the drugs trade? When you are in Colombia, you cannot help but notice that many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: The coca farmers are not the ones making the money from the drug trade. Who is making the money from the drugs trade?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: It is the responsibility of all of us, though, to highlight the trail of money that leads to the devastation, be it in Colombia or in working-class communities here, from the drugs trade. It is not the people, either growers in Colombia or people who are suffering from drugs in Ireland or elsewhere, who are making the money from the trade but they certainly experience the devastation. We...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I will pick up where Deputy Cairns left off on the previous occasion. The Bill has defects in respect of the sharing of personal information, especially in the requirement to share third-party information with an employer to seek medical care leave or flexible working arrangements for care purposes. This issue also arose in recent newspaper accounts of IBEC’s submission on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the latest Central Statistics Office figures which state that one in ten households cannot afford to pay for school trips, while 12% of one-parent families cannot afford to pay for them; and the steps that her Department is taking, if any, to counter this. [50748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can confirm that hard copies of the Ballymun core bus corridor, CBC, consultation will be placed in Ballymun and Millmount libraries in order that residents without access to IT can review and engage with the consultation. [51087/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Environmental Impact Assessments (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the services of the independent experts, RINA, for residents on the MetroLink project are due to be completed; and if there will be independent expert advice for residents during the enabling works and construction works. [51089/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider putting an ABP submission cost-waiver in place for those in receipt of social welfare payments in order to allow them to participate fully in the planning process, given that the National Transport Authority opted to run the MetroLink railway order and Ballymun CBC application processes at the same time....

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

Gary Gannon: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times that a one-parent family has had their allowance temporarily re-directed to a different post office without the prior knowledge of the recipient. [51086/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals heard by the independent student grants appeal board in 2021; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of appeals that were upheld, partially upheld, overturned and withdrawn in 2021. [50744/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date for the release of the 2022 junior certificate results; and if a date cannot be provided, the reason that a date cannot be confirmed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50372/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: My question pertains to the junior certificate, in particular as to when the results of that examination will be furnished.