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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (27 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Once again, I ask the Minister if his Department will consider removing the eligibility criteria exclusions of the category of parents of an Irish citizen for SUSI applications in relation to persons with permission to remain under a stamp 4 visa.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Advocacy groups such as AsIAm, Down Syndrome Ireland, and Inclusion Ireland have written to the Department of Education asking for the recently revised special education teaching, SET, allocation model to be paused until those most affected are meaningfully consulted. Countless families and advocacy groups felt as though their needs were ignored when the new allocation model was announced....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: She lives in rural Ireland.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: When?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he has engaged with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to restrictive 51-week tenancies for the 2024-25 academic year announced by some operators of student accommodation in Dublin. [9090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what actions he and his Department are taking to reduce staff-to-student ratios in higher education, given Ireland was decreed to have one of the worst ratios in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. [9089/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (21 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I disagree with him in that I do not necessarily think a dilution of services through their transfer from An Post to a different style of service will have any benefit at all for the community. That is captured, in particular, by the staff who currently work in the An Post office at Phibsborough. There is a genuine sense of anxiety about what...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (21 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for taking Topical Issue Matters today. From about 8.45 onwards this morning and every weekday morning, a trickle of people start to arrive at Phibsborough post office. That trickle very quickly turns into a queue and that queue is representative of the vast array of different people who live in and make Phibsborough their home. They queue outside the post...

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the Ukrainian ambassador and acknowledge the incredible work she has done over the past two years. We are here today to recognise a very sombre anniversary. It is two years since the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an event which has undeniably reshaped the contours of international relations, global security and the very notion of sovereignty. As we stand with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: Do we actually have the capacity to effectively police this State anymore? I ask because once again I was summoned to a coalition of residents' groups in a Dublin 1 area, from Buckingham Street around to Talbot Street. Their issues are ones that have been replicated over the last number of years. There is chronic law-breaking and open drug dealing and when the residents call the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: That is okay, so.

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

Gary Gannon: 62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on her Department's work on combating energy poverty. [7892/24]

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

Gary Gannon: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that remains in the process of introducing the auto-enrolment pension scheme. [7893/24]

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

Gary Gannon: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the domiciliary care allowance payment of €340 per month is sufficient to care for a child with a severe disability that requires full time care and attention. [7889/24]

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...