10. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence how many legal cases have been taken against the Defence Forces since the beginning of 2024; and if that figure is higher or lower than the same period in 2023. [13287/24]
4. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the training of at least four members of the Israeli Defence Forces by the Irish Military College since 2017 has, in his opinion, compromised Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13291/24]
22. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide details on the interactions between the State and the Polisario Front of Western Sahara, and if his Department intends on recognising Western Sahara as a sovereign state. [11133/24]
7. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government has made a decision on if and when Ireland will support South Africa's case against Israel in the ICJ, which alleges that the latter is committing genocide in Palestine. [11134/24]
4. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the Israeli ambassador has not been summoned by his Department after the killing of a person (details supplied) despite the Russian ambassador rightfully being summoned in the wake of another death in Russia; and the reason the same standards are not applied to both. [11135/24]
35. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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]
27. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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]
4. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he and his Department will consider removing the eligibility criteria exclusion 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. [9088/24]
98. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for 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]
66. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for 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]
64. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the work that remains in the process of introducing the auto-enrolment pension scheme. [7893/24]
154. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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]
35. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her views on an organisation (details supplied) playing Israel in a EuroBasket qualifier, despite the ongoing genocide committed by Israel in Palestine. [6878/24]
26. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 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]
3. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 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]
152. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education 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 automatically qualify and, if so, what this will look like in practice; and if a device does not follow a student, how long on average a student is waiting. [6836/24]
151. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if there is a role for her Department in providing devices (details supplied) pursuant to Circular 0010/2013. [6835/24]
230. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance the measures he and his Department are taking to ensure that no products from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine are imported into Ireland; if he and his Department are taking measures to prevent Irish goods being exported to Israeli companies which are complicit in the illegal settlement of Palestinian land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6204/24]
111. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the reason Departmental information is regularly communicated to school staff after 5pm, given their right to disconnect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6344/24]
102. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education 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]
95. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education 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]
83. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education 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]
68. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education 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. [6343/24]
55. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has liaised with the Garda Commissioner regarding safety measures for businesses employing members of the migrant community in the city centre following rioting in Dublin. [53624/23]
216. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the amount the actors/ “edinfluencers” were paid to take part in a campaign (details supplied); and the amount that was spent to promote the campaign in general. [5723/24]
118. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance when the rent tax credit of €750 will be paid out to those who have listed the tax credit on their Revenue Commissioner's account on or before 1 January; and the length of time a person will have to wait to receive their payment if they were to list their rent tax credit now or on any given day. [5724/24]
24. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that on 7 January 2024, in an interview with RTÉ radio, that the Taoiseach made explicit mention to the Armenian genocide, and if this reference marks a change of course by Ireland in officially recognising that the Armenian people suffered a genocide during the First World War. [5722/24]
589. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she and her Department will consider the purchase of Rawlton House, Sherrard Street Lower, Dublin 1, as part of the community recognition fund to be repurposed as a community centre. [3724/24]
394. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice how much money a case processing panellist is paid per case in the International Protection Office. [3723/24]
393. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice how many case processing panellists are currently contracted to the International Protection Office.
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392. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice to list the current top ten earners who are contracted as a case processing panellist in the International Protection Office.
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142. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the Government’s plan to develop Ireland’s nationally determined contributions (details supplied); if a consultative and participatory process is to take place, and which stakeholders are proposed to be included. [3725/24]
81. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he or his Department is taking part in any form of diplomacy in relation to the conflict in the Red Sea. [3070/24]
79. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to outline explicitly his reasons for not being in favour of backing South Africa's case accusing Israel of the genocide of Palestinians in the International Court of Justice. [3069/24]
76. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs at what stage and in which conditions he would deem it appropriate to define Israel's killing of Palestinians as genocide. [3068/24]
27. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a breakdown of the cost of facilitating Chinese Premier Li Qiang's visit to Ireland earlier this month. [3067/24]
109. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if there are plans to develop a secondary school for Newcastle in Dublin 22; and if so, the status of such a plan (details supplied). [3109/24]
108. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the number of secondary school spaces that are allocated for students from Newcastle, Dublin 22 primary schools in local secondary schools or nearby secondary schools in other villages (details supplied). [3108/24]
83. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the projected cost of his Department’s plans to establish military attaches in overseas embassies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2779/24]
82. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence which overseas embassies are included in his Department’s plans to establish military attaches in overseas embassies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2778/24]
81. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence how many members of the Israeli Defence Forces have attended the Irish Military College since 2011; how many are currently attending the Military College; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2777/24]
77. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he is aware that the original gates of the former Marlborough Barracks, now known as McKee Barracks off Blackhorse Avenue, are being kept in storage, that temporary gates were installed in the mid-1980s, and if he and his Department are willing to evaluate the condition of the original gates and reinstall them. [2776/24]
106. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science how long medical graduates will have to commit to working in the Republic of Ireland after studying in Northern Ireland under the proposal that the State will pay for doctors to train there if they take up work here after qualifying. [1918/24]
102. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science how many new degree programmes will be available outside the Central Applications Office points system for the upcoming academic year; and how many places will be available in each. [1917/24]
99. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for his position on the joint European degree scheme proposed by the European Union. [1916/24]
95. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to outline his interactions with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in 2023 regarding the shortage of student accommodation. [1919/24]
91. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if 2024 will see increased funding for community training centres in Dublin's north inner city, Dublin 1 and Dublin 3. [1920/24]
1348. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residents at a location (details supplied), broken down by gender, relationship status and the number who are children, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56777/23]
1031. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the number of first-time labour market access applications; the number granted; the number denied; the number being processed to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56779/23]