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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review on alternative education will be published; and the reason for the delay. [13535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support the education and emotional needs of Ukrainian children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the reprofiling exercise originally planned to take place in 2021 will be conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 205. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will review the impact of participation in the basic income for artists scheme on existing social protection supports, in particular if artists in receipt of payments, such as a disability payment, will not be precluded from participating in the scheme, given the proposed trial is to be launched imminently....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to two Irish medical students (details supplied) currently in the Sumy State University in Ukraine. [13703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to calls by Irish students studying medicine in Ukraine seeking to continue their education to become doctors; if assistance will be provided to them to transfer them home to study at medical schools here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13704/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: We all are aware of the statements the Russian ambassador made to the Russian television station, Russia-24, in which he described Ireland as being a hotbed of anti-Russian sentiment. I do not think anyone here is anti-Russian but we certainly are anti-Putin and we are opposed to the federation in which he is involved. Did the Minister talk to the ambassador about his statement to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: He said we were anti-Russian.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: They are not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of eligibility to student grants for persons who hold stamp 4 visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12848/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: Has the Minister's attention being drawn to the lack of eligibility to student grants for persons who hold stamp 4 visas and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I assure the Minister that finding commonality across the Chamber would never be an issue to be uncomfortable with. I wanted to raise this matter in general but also specifically relating to Irish citizens who are not currently eligible for the SUSI grant. This issue was brought to my attention by Kuxi Ghai, an incredible law student in Kings Inns and also an incredible advocate for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: I am really happy that we seem to be in line regarding reviewing this. However, I wrote to the Minister in November and again in January, at which time we seemed to be at odds. I am glad that seems to have been rectified. I am very conscious that the Minister has included reference to the Minister for Justice. My concern is that the buck will continue to be passed between the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who are heading one-parent families are a priority group for supports into further and higher education at all levels of education; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a systemic disadvantage for one-parent family recipients who wish to pursue a PhD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12850/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the SUSI review will be published; when he plans to implement the recommendations from the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12849/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work by his Department on reducing the issue of precarity of employment in the higher education sector. [12851/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual expenditure from the Revenue Commissioners towards additional healthcare expenses for a child from 2017-2021; the average annual relief claimed for child oncology patients in tabular form. [12899/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual amounts paid to third parties for the rental of properties for school accommodation from 2010 to date broken down by county, year and school in tabular form. [12905/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of 16- and 17-year-olds living with cancer who applied for disability allowance from 2018 - 2021; the number of applications that were accepted and refused; the annual expenditure on accepted cases in tabular form. [12900/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the participation rates of students in recipient of SUSI on the Erasmus+ programme in each of the years 2016 to 2019. [12906/22]