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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if antigen tests will be provided for the childhood sector free; and if his attention has been drawn to a crèche (details supplied) that cannot afford antigen tests. [61112/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (9 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the working groups his Department has with industry; the members of the groups; and the way the members of each group were selected. [61103/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (9 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the trials of antigen tests in the early childhood sector. [61110/21]

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this timely and worthy motion. The past two years have forced us to have a greater appreciation of our front-line workers and their dedication and workload, but also the environment in which they work and the resources they are provided. I have said this many times in the Chamber regarding our nurses, our teachers, our other front-line services and now our...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: Covid in children is at an all time high. I want to revisit the conversation we had previously with regard to HEPA filters. The Taoiseach mentioned previously that a budget for HEPA filters would be coming on stream in the next couple of weeks. Is that budget the annual minor works grant scheme? If that is the budget to which the Taoiseach refers, are we facing a scenario where schools...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)

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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 282. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take tangible action at European Union level to bring forward the adoption of import and export prohibitions towards illegal settlements such as those in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Defence in view of the announcement on 27 October 2021 by Israel that it has given final approval for the building of 1,800 housing units...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 283. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the comments made by the United Nations Special Rapporteur (details supplied) on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 that the illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territory continue to attract international corporate engagement; his further views on whether the involvement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 284. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 18 November 2021, his views on whether years of dispossession, confiscation, segregation and disintegration of the Palestinian people coupled with a strategy of surrounding Palestinian communities with thousands of Zionist settlers has ensured that a two-State solution is farther away now than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the negotiations ongoing between her Department and representatives of school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers qualified outside the State registered by the Teaching Council in each of the years from 2017 to date. [60551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers registered by the Teaching Council in each of the years from 2017 to date. [60552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of days that went uncovered by a substitute teacher in primary schools from 1 November to 30 November 20221 according to the online claims system. [60553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of days went uncovered by a substitute teacher in post-primary schools from 1 November to 30 November 20221 according to the online claims system. [60554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Inspections (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of inspections carried out in primary schools by type of inspection for the period 1 September 2021 to the most recent data available in tabular form. [60555/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Inspections (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of inspections carried out in post-primary schools broken down by type of inspection for the period 1 September 2021 to the most recent data available in tabular form. [60556/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights (7 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank the witnesses for an excellent presentation and testimony. I will fully support the call for us to write to the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Justice. The committee can probably go further and get its teeth into this matter and take a lead on it. Mr. Walsh outlined that work on the legislation has already started. Perhaps it might be an idea for us to engage...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the reintroduction of the pandemic unemployment payment, which has been essential in keeping the wolf from many people's doors. It has been a lifeline throughout the pandemic. When it was first introduced it was set at a rate of €350 and fostered a degree of social solidarity. All those who lost their jobs or who were unable to continue in their employment as a result of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (2 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a specific taskforce to review the impact of housing insecurity on one-parent families as part of the campaign by an organisation (details supplied). [59686/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the significant delays in birth registration causing subsequent delays for claims for child benefit placing significant financial stress on parents particularly one parent families; if she will ensure that financially vulnerable parents are identified and supported; and if she will make a...