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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (1 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department holds responsibility for the daily expenses allowance. [59513/21]

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for his contribution. I strongly condemn the scenes of violence being inflicted on Palestinian people in their own territories. Settler violence is the inevitable outcome of occupation. There has never been a time in human history when the illegal occupation or annexation of one territory by another has been accepted. A state should not use violence as a means of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Education last met; and when it is next due to meet. [59098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of applications for emergency works grants; the number that were successful in accessing the grant and the total amount awarded for the past five years in tabular form. [59100/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of schools that identified a further requirement for CO2 monitors and submitted a request through the dedicated helpline and email account (details supplied); the number of schools that received additional CO2 monitors; and the total number of reserve CO2 monitors that have been distributed to schools via this method in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a working family payment claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [59102/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to higher education institutions holding in-person examinations at the end of term some in large venues to accommodate large number of students despite the growing number of Covid-19 cases; if his Department will work with public health to ensure guidelines are provided to institutions to ensure the health and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government for addressing the gap in postgraduate grants particularly in relation to part-time postgraduate grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeframe for when the private security agency sector will finish the development of training and standards for enforcement officers as per the Private Security Services (Amendment) Act 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59104/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 491. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if enforcement officers are currently covered by the Private Security Services (Amendment) Act 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59106/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of Irish recipients of European Union farm subsidies, including organisation names and amounts received listed in descending order by value for the period 2018 to 2021, in tabular form. [59103/21]

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: I thank all the contributors. It has been worthwhile and interesting to hear the various perspectives across the Chamber. I am going to use my time to respond to some of the issues raised in the debate. The first concerns the Government amendment that requires nine months of additional time. On the surface, I accept that it seems perfectly reasonable to give the NCCA nine months to...

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Social Democrats is bringing this Bill forward to ensure that every single student and school that receives State funding will receive the same fact-based health, relationship and sex education regardless of their school's ethos. The Bill amends the Education Act so that health, relationships and sex education should not in the first...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided to schools regarding communication of a positive Covid-19 case in a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Inspections (23 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the non-essential school inspections visiting schools given the evolving and growing concern of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57310/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to ensure that the requirement for close contacts to restrict movements for five days will not further impact on school staffing worsening the already existing staffing crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57311/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school leaders can expect to receive antigen testing for the school community; if antigen testing will require additional expenditure by the school or parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57312/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of introducing legislation to create an inclusive relationships and sexuality education programme as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57314/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: The only Member in this Chamber who has created a false binary choice about antigen testing is the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. On the radio yesterday, he said that the reason we cannot have free antigen tests in this country is that would be the cost of a nurse. That was a binary choice that the Government created. Some 637,000 people in this country are living in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: It is not untrue.