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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.

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

Gary Gannon: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the contents of her Department’s Circular 0002/2024 provides for additional therapeutic, behavioural and psychological supports for schools, given the current lack thereof, which remains a major barrier to fully inclusive education; and to provide an explanation for the reduction of allocated SET hours for schools around the country....

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

Gary Gannon: Will the Minister for Education outline how the contents of her Department’s Circular 0002/2024 provides for additional therapeutic, behavioural and psychological supports for schools, given the current lack thereof, which remains a major barrier to fully inclusive education, and will she provide an explanation for the reduction of allocated special education teaching, SET, hours for...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "recognises" and substitute the following: "— public service journalism - accurate and impartial reporting in the public interest – is a central pillar of Irish society and democracy; — confidence in Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) has reached an all-time low as a result of successive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of young carers as a target group for educational supports, such as Tusla’s school completion programme, given the ESRI’s findings that young people who care for a relative are less likely to move on to higher education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the work conducted by the National Education Psychological Service (NEPS) in schools in Dublin 1 since November 2023; the number of therapy sessions provided by NEPS by each school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6345/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she and her Department will commit to an enhanced safety audit of schools in vulnerable and high traffic areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6346/24]