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Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...case, there would be a saving to the State but it would be minimal and would come at the expense of some of Ireland's poorest. We already know that the cost of tax relief for private pensions runs not into the hundreds of millions but into the billions of euro. That is the case every single year. Auto-enrolment will increase that by hundreds of millions of euro each year. We also know...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...but after two years of a global pandemic the need for this is more important than ever. I am conscious that when I was on Dublin City Council footfall in the city was in decline because of some of the M50 shopping centres that were taking it from the city. The global pandemic has meant that our other institutions around the city have felt a fall in numbers because people were taking...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...I welcome the expansion of the schools hot meals programme to additional DEIS schools. However, this will still leave a significant proportion of DEIS schools out of the programme. The budget has allocated €3 million to extend the programme to those DEIS schools that submitted an interest to be part of the programme in 2020. There are 887 DEIS schools in the country and,...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...are being stored in these centres. It is our data and our information, what we google, our old Facebook posts, and what we decide to remove from our online shopping baskets before checkout - the millions of pieces of data we unknowingly give away but are highly valued and profiteered from. It is energy sapping on a human level. Many centres are dedicated to this and it seems wholly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the investment of €5 million for DEIS schools in budget 2021 will be allocated; if it will be committed to trauma informed practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9013/21]

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...never have experienced the need to seek welfare. They get cold just like anybody else. The requirement that a person who loses his or her job must be in receipt of a jobseeker's payment for more than 15 months before he or she qualifies for the fuel allowance makes no sense. Does the person who has lost his or her job not suffer from the cold for 15 months? That is an illogical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the further supports made available to DEIS schools catering for the highest concentrations of education disadvantage from the budget allocation of €2 million in 2021; and the detail of the full allocation of €5 million in 2022 announced in budget 2021. [35445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the way in which the additional €5 million for DEIS schools in Budget 2021 will be allocated and drawn from. [32876/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (1 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: .... I have spoken to Shelbourne and Bohemians, which are in my constituency, and to clubs throughout Dublin. They have told me that they have asked for a financial package of approximately €5 million which will keep them afloat into 2021 and ensure that they can keep their staff on so they do not need to avail of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. Every club has approximately...

Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (9 Jul 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...pandemic. I ask the Minister to pay particular attention to the local authorities' discretionary funding, which is a very important funding mechanism for artists. I welcome the additional €25 million for the arts, with €20 million going to the Arts Council and a further €5 million still to be decided. Although it is welcome, we are starting from a very low level....