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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of letters issued from her Department to one-parent family payment claimants requesting proof of efforts from the liable relatives to seek maintenance in each of the years 2018 to 2021. [10702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of one-parent family payment claimants who were exempt from efforts to seek maintenance conditions due to domestic abuse and risk from a former partner. [10703/22]

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I wish to begin by welcoming the Ukrainian ambassador and expressing our deepest solidarity, on behalf of the Social Democrats and the people of Dublin Central who I represent, with the ambassador and the Ukrainian people today. I cannot imagine what it is like to have the Russian Federation acting like a bully and a thug at the border, threatening violence on an immense scale. We stand in...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I very much welcome the opportunity to speak today. I am very conscious as I do so that this is the second time in three weeks that we have met in this Chamber to discuss the legacy issues in Northern Ireland. Three weeks ago, it was in the shadow of the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, and today it follows on from the Police Ombudsman's report into collusive behaviour, which we...

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion, even though the Social Democrats do not agree with it. In fact, we believe the motion is disingenuous and dishonest and I will spend a large part of my contribution explaining why. We need to discuss why we need a carbon tax and why it is important to retain it, even in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. We need to discuss what we are going...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to extend the free school books scheme nationwide following the pilot scheme that was run for a number of delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, programme schools in 2020. Moreover, there is a constitutional duty on the State to provide free primary education, which it fails to do every year. The Children's Rights Alliance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available for the repair and replacement of five prefab buildings at a school (details supplied); and if a timeline for such works will be provided. [9561/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site designated for educational purposes as part of the new housing development of Kilcarbery, County Dublin is no longer required for such purposes; the rationale for this decision; if this decision is linked to the potential planned expansion of a school (details supplied); if so, if this expansion will be sufficient to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plan for a school (details supplied) in relation to alternative temporary accommodation for the beginning of the new school term in August 2022. [9563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress of securing a permanent building for a school (details supplied); if discussions between her Department and Galway City and County Councils in relation to the acquisition of a permanent site have progressed; when it is expected that this school will be located on its permanent site and in its permanent building; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students registered in 1st, 4th and 6th class across all primary schools in Ireland in 2021. [9759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the redevelopment of the dental school in University College Cork has not progressed, despite launching its redevelopment in 2019; his plans to progress this redevelopment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9760/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are only an estimated 60 dental graduates per year; his views on whether this is sufficient to meet the demands of dental patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9761/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 786. To ask the Minister for Health the additional support and resources that are to be provided to the north Dublin city and county orthodontic unit in 2022 and 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9560/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental treatment service scheme contracts held in total and in each CHO area in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9753/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have resigned from the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9754/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider an independent chair for the discussions between the HSE and an association (details supplied) in reforming the dental treatment services scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9755/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of students across 1st, 4th and 6th class primary school children that attended dental screening appointments respectively in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and in each CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 811. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary students that have missed their public dental screening appointments in each of the years 2019 to 2021 per CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9757/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 812. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 1st, 4th and 6th class primary school children respectively on waiting lists to access the schools dental screening programme to year end 2021 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9758/22]