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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what measures will be taken to respond adequately to the report carried out by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, and presented to the United Nations, which found that the State was failing to address the root causes of poverty through its ''short-term, emergency and temporary measures". [7890/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply and appreciate his response on an issue I raised previously. That is highly beneficial. I noted that a lot of young people are being groomed into the drugs industry. They are given electric bikes and then zoom up and down different networks and pathways in the area. I fully believe that those young people are victims. I am not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I cannot help but acknowledge that there is no representative from the Department of Justice here. This is probably the third time I have raised a Topical Issue on the issue of safety in and around Dublin city centre and neither of those-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Absolutely but it is also important to put on record that I received a communication from the Department of Justice that did not offer a change. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, will do in terms of dealing with this issue because there is an immediacy to it. I want to discuss chronic law-breaking not just in the north inner city of Dublin because it is wider than that. I will break...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the allocation of special education teaching hours, particularly the removal of complex needs from the criteria for the provision of special education teaching hours, which has been described by Inclusion Ireland as shameful. The Minister spoke about different algorithms and matters of data collection but Inclusion Ireland has come out against it, AsIAm...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: That is fantastic, I say to the Minister of State. On the condition of the FAI, I know that the Minister of State often hosts phone calls with different sports clubs on the application process. I encouraged the Minister of State to continue doing that. I know that for the football clubs I have seen, they have spent all their time just trying to organise pitches. There is not really the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 3. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the delay and suspension of Sport Ireland funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6879/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I ask the Minister of State for an update on the suspension of Sport Funding to the FAI and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He is right regarding the suspension and the rules placed upon the FAI. That was very fair and just and I commend him on doing so. When it comes to the funding of the FAI, for me, there is an infrastructural deficit within football and in Ireland that is all-incorporating. At grassroots level, I see that every single weekend and twice a week...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any of her Department's funds will be allocated to opening new spaces for artists and creatives in Dublin; and if so, if she will outline these planned developments. [6876/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Middle East (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 35. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on an organisation (details supplied) playing Israel in a EuroBasket qualifier, despite the ongoing genocide committed by Israel in Palestine. [6878/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the development of the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter; and if he is aware of the decay and degeneration of the currently vacant Ambassador Theatre in Dublin 1. [6880/24]

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I echo the words of so many on the welcome return of power-sharing in the North. As a student of history and as someone who has sat in this Chamber for the past four years, the words "historic" and "monumental" are too often overused. The scenes of Michelle O'Neill as Northern Ireland's First Minister and Emma Little-Pengelly as deputy First Minister were, however, truly historic and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a role for her Department in providing devices (details supplied) pursuant to Circular 0010/2013. [6835/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether, if a child is in receipt of assistive technology, this technology typically stays with the school; the procedure required for reapplication for such devices where the device does not follow the individual to the next setting, i.e., secondary school or new school; if parents have to provide a new professional report; if individuals...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: More important still is the need to ascertain whether, in next year's allocation, the complex needs of individual students will be disregarded within the criteria. Will the Minister of State clarify that? Where a student has a multitude of complex issues, will that be disregarded? If that is the case, it is a retrograde step. It is not just me saying this. I genuinely have no interest in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: There was not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: You are wrong in what you are saying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Complex needs will not be captured by standardised tests. That is the crux of the argument as to why this is a poor mechanism for categorising complex needs. A multitude of different complex needs are individualised to students within the school setting. That will not be captured under the new model. I again assure the Minister of State that I did not wake up this morning and decide to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: They are not.