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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (23 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the lack of eligibility to access student grants for persons who hold stamp 4 visas; and, if so, if he and his Department are evaluating expanding the criteria. [23525/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (23 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Is the Minister if he is aware of the lack of eligibility to access student grants for persons who hold stamp 4 visas and, if so, what he and his Department are doing to evaluate expanding the criteria. I hope they are doing so. I think we have raised this with the Minister's predecessor every year for the past four years. I have also contacted the present Minister's Department numerous...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (23 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I know.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (23 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge the diligence of his office in liaising back and forth with me. From the Minister's response, I am conscious he is aware of the issue. I might just get a commitment from him that we can have a meeting-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (23 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: -----sometime over the next week or so or, if not, over the coming weeks. I will leave it there.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (23 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister. I look forward to the meeting.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will look at this from a different vantage than the previous speaker. When I was walking across the city this morning, I listened to the Ombudsman for Children responding to the child poverty report, which, once again, highlights that the level of child poverty in this State is increasing. Then, I came in here to talk about this motion. I thank Deputy Shortall for bringing it forward....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I am laughing because the Taoiseach is going to vote for Ursula von der Leyen

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I would like to understand if it took the Taoiseach by surprise when the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan announced charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant? The first point around which they are building a case is the use of starvation of civilians as a weapon war. I really want to understand the Government's...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: No, it is not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Through hanging posters and knocking on doors, we have a very intimate relationship with our electorate as part of our democracy. Over recent weeks, I have watched local election candidates who simply want to hang their posters and knock on doors receive a level of vitriol that I have not witnessed during my time in politics. It is having a chilling effect. In my constituency, I have seen...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: That is always the case.

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this incredibly important motion. In Dublin everybody has a story about the bombings that took place 50 years ago this week, in 1974, but absolutely nobody feels they have a full understanding of the truth of what happened that day, although everybody suspects they know what happened. We will go into that further. I have talked to a number of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Do we get the opportunity or does the Taoiseach have the good grace to tell us what exactly the plan is? Will the Government keep fencing off the city of Dublin? That we do not have statements or the Minister for Justice answering questions this week is a poor reflection of the Government's commitment to the citizens of Dublin and the vulnerable people in those tents. As a matter of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Has the Taoiseach taken a walk along the Grand Canal lately? I did earlier today and over the weekend. What is usually a public amenity for the citizens of Dublin, where you would see people on a day like today having a picnic or a jog along the canal, has seen fencing erected by this Government. The Taoiseach should not shake his head. He orchestrated a multi-agency task force. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dublin City Task Force (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: No one for a second believes that incidents of crime and assault should ever become the norm. The frustration on everyone else's part is that they have become the norm. The announcement of a task force only matters if in 12 weeks' time, or preferably tomorrow, when someone is being attacked on the street, there will be a garda who will be able to intervene quickly. Those are the brass...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dublin City Task Force (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: It is the task force.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dublin City Task Force (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I have had this matter selected as a Topical Issue on four separate occasions. Each time, I called for a comprehensive, Cabinet-led approach to the issues of violence in our city centre, which too often has plagued and blighted the place that I love and that I walk through every day. We have had some satisfaction in that regard. The Taoiseach has announced that he intends to construct a...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: These are important statements on special education. In advance of this debate, I took the opportunity to ask schools and educational leaders in my community and other parts of Dublin about the circumstances of special education in their schools. While I will not refer to any school by name, I will speak to some of the issues they raised with me during those telephone conversations in the...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: We are asked today to make statements on Europe Day so let me make a statement straight off the bat. Europe is complicit in the genocide that is taking place in Gaza and under that blanket, nothing else matters. When the Tánaiste spoke earlier, in Trumpian fashion, he equated the right and the left and spoke of a collective cynicism about the EU as if those two groups shared the same...