Results 181-200 of 2,653 for speaker:Gary Gannon

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many complaints her Department has received this year regarding social welfare inspections. [54182/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: This European Council meeting has the potential to be very significant but I fear it will just go as exactly as the one five weeks ago did. There will be words, expressions of concern, equivocation, and justification of the slaughter and genocide that is happening. The frustration I have, which the Social Democrats would like to express first and foremost, is that it has been three and a...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: My vote today is not intended to be personal to any one individual. My vote today is in the name of those who love the city in Dublin, who engage with it, who live in it, who work in it and who wish to send their children to school in it safely. Confidence in any form derives from a feeling of security. It has been a very long time since anybody who engages with the city of Dublin in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: 93. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider making it mandatory for any co-productions shooting in Ireland to engage local Irish performers on equal terms and conditions as any visiting performer whose fees are subsidised by the public purse. [53625/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for her response. I do not need to diminish the importance placed on online safety for children in primary and secondary school. In the context of the horrific events we have seen in the past week, I wish to reference the area of priorities. As we concern ourselves with what children are viewing online nationally, I cannot step away from what primary school children...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: I am sure the Minister does not need to tell me that the incident is not-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: I appreciate that. We can also appreciate that in more middle-class and suburban areas of the country, I often find parents campaigning to remove a fast food restaurant from outside of school gates. In the inner city and surrounding areas that I represent, too often over the years I have received calls from parents and members of the school community to remove open drug dealing from outside...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her priorities, and those of her Department, when considering her call for mobile phones to be banned in primary schools. [53100/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: I am asking the Minister about her and her Department's priorities when considering her recent call, as opposed to the enactment of legislation, for mobile phones to be banned in primary schools.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the training teachers who work in special educational needs classes receive. [52826/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the secretaries grant will be received by schools. [52827/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what actions her Department is taking to tackle teacher shortages at primary and secondary level. [52830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when DEIS schools will receive the ICT grant. [52829/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some DEIS schools have not received a library and librarian under the scheme, while some other DEIS schools have. [52828/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the process for ensuring that all US military aircraft which pass through Shannon Airport are not carrying weapons or munitions of war. [50253/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will advocate for the suspension of trade with Israel at EU level, which is governed by the EU Israel Association Agreement, due to its abhorrent violations of international law. [50256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of exemptions permitting the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft in Irish sovereign territory that have been granted to US military aircraft from 2022 to date; and the destination of each aircraft which has been provided an exemption. [50255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of US military aircraft that have refuelled in Shannon Airport to date in 2023; and the following destination for each aircraft. [50254/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his diplomatic engagements to free hostages from Gaza. [52831/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. At its most basic, removal of the triple lock would make it easier for Irish troops to be deployed on military operations overseas. While some might think that is a good thing, I certainly do not. In practice, it means the State could send military personnel overseas on missions not mandated by the UN, since the clause that has...