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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to conduct reviews of the workplace adaptation grant and reasonable accommodation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the introduction of a cost of disability following the publication of a report (details supplied). [5490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS primary schools operating with at least one autism class by county in tabular form; and the total number of autism classes. [5714/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools operating with at least one autism class by county in tabular form; and the total number of autism classes. [5715/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (3 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the recommendation from a report (details supplied) on the creation of the role of sexual misconduct prevention and response managers in further and higher education institutions and for that work to be supported full-time by a national and or sectoral representative and a panel of trained investigators. [5716/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: This morning, the Dáil unanimously passed a Social Democrats motion on the cost of cancer care. It was hugely welcome and it was a very unifying debate in the Chamber. The motion had three asks, namely, to abolish the €80 inpatient charge for those receiving cancer treatment, to direct the HSE to end the practice of using debt collectors to collect hospital charges from cancer...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Taoiseach.

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I welcome a number of advocacy champions for the Irish Cancer Society who are in the Public Gallery, including Katie Lally, Pat O’Gorman and Léa Hearst. I also welcome Maria Fleming, who has been great advocate in Dublin Central and holds us all to account. I value the work they have done and I am proud to welcome them to the Dáil. The Social Democrats are proud to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that were suspended, cancelled or not awarded to lone parents due to failure to provide proof of efforts to seek maintenance for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. [5506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget towards the proposed tax free pandemic recognition payment of €1,000; and the number of eligible frontline workers expected to avail of the payment. [5505/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Russia's Foreign Policy and Security in Europe: Engagement with Ambassador of Russia (2 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the ambassador for joining us today. Irish neutrality is important to us. We wear it as a source of pride. The ambassador will have heard many members around the committee room already referencing it. Does the Russian Federation believe that the State is militarily neutral in world affairs? The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr. Sergei Lavrov, wrote to the...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: I will begin by acknowledging that although many of the events I will speak of happened a mere couple of hours up the road, I find it difficult to relate to them because I was 11 when the Good Friday Agreement was signed. I never had to march with my family to seek justice from state forces. The bombs had grown silent by the time I would have been old enough to hear them. The peace was...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: One of the justifications the Government has given today for not affording students a hybrid leaving certificate is that 25% of the students do not have a junior certificate. I have never liked the leaving certificate but one of the arguments made in its favour by its proponents is that it is a fair exam that everybody sits on the same day. Now we have a scenario where three out of four...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: That is how privilege is locked in.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it is next due to meet. [3076/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the framework for sustainable funding for a centre (details supplied); the date of the last meeting between her Department and the centre; when the framework is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4815/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of alternative education which started in 2018 will be published; when the review was received by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with the organisers of a campaign (details supplied). [4816/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the pilot basic income scheme for artists will be eligible for comedians and comedy writers to apply for; if comedians and comedy writers are included in the definition of arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (1 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: 316. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that well-being measurements will be included in the pilot basic income scheme for artists. [4838/22]