Results 1-20 of 70 for going forward speaker:Gary Gannon

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: What is the State's playbook? I ask this because in the absence of one, we are behind and we need to step forward. We need to meet these challenges. There is an assault on decency in this country. We need to recommit ourselves to confronting it every step of the way. That will require a coherent plan of action going forward, because this will be with us for the long term.

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: Is it not? The Deputy's are never short. The aim must transcend the Bill and go into the intention of opening our National Concert Hall to communities who have not felt it as a home or place where they can perform their works. I am excited to see how it develops. I commend the Minister on bringing forward the Bill and on the work she has done in her Ministry, and I look forward to hearing...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: In terms of the Tánaiste's position, where we differ is that he offers words but in terms of the Middle East conflict, we want him to go forward and offer actions. That is where we have diverged. I have highlighted examples of people from the Tánaiste's own party that I have admiration for, including Mr. Frank Aiken-----

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank People Before Profit for bringing forward this motion. We are living through the most horrific times. In that regard, I am grateful, insofar as one can be, that this Chamber gets to debate what contribution Ireland can make, however small or large, in stopping the depravity that we are watching being inflicted on the human beings in Gaza right now. Last week, the Social Democrats...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...a parent but this could be open to spouses or family members when this would not be the case. In many cases the parent in a one-parent family parents the child alone and is isolated. I cannot go back to them while saying I facilitated passage of this Bill because the Minister reassured me a spouse or other family member may emerge in future. It is not good enough. The amendment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...to talk about compassion within our education and State examinations system. I am no fan of the current leaving certificate model but it worries me gravely that we are moving backwards and not forward when it comes to compassion for students. Compassionate leave was granted for the first time in 2019 to students who suffered a close family bereavement over the course of their written...

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: I was planning on going on some wanderings but I will not do that now. What we are talking about today, if we cut out the substance of what I was going to say, is power, privilege and the manner in which they replicate. This happens not only in the Irish education system but in Irish society as a whole. Education in Ireland is defined by many characteristics. It is full of decent people,...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...in any sort of requisite way. If we accept the fact that migration is inevitable, we must also accept the fact that we are not meeting the challenge. In that same interview, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, said that we are not meeting our international obligations because we are failing to provide effective accommodation to people who are going to be here. That is the truth. What is the...

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

Gary Gannon: ...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. The first call we have in our motion concerns the fact that there are an estimated 104,000 children on waiting lists for school screenings and dental services for which 208,000 children...

Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I support the Bill in the fullest and congratulate Sinn Féin on proposing it. We will be supporting it fully and hope it goes through. The Bill seeks to ban the coercion of minors into drug dealing. We see the full effects of this activity in many of our communities every week and every day. When you think about the coercion of minors into the drug trade or try to describe it to...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...of such access to leave would be highly inappropriate and potentially traumatising. There was also consensus that no one would fraudulently claim such leave. Unfortunately, IBEC decided to go down the road of suggesting victims of gender-based violence would need proof "to avoid any potential abuse of domestic violence leave". Not only this, it suggested that the Department conduct...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: I initially put my hand up to speak on this topic out of anger because I spent a large part of this morning going over the amendments and preparing what I was going to say. Then, 20 minutes into the debate we were told the Minister would not be accepting any amendments. That is an extraordinary admission to make that resulted from an insightful question from my colleague, Deputy Cairns. ...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion today. It is an unusually important motion. I also believe that the ramifications of the motion and the Opposition pressure have led to the announcement today, which I welcome. The announcement today will bring great relief to families who are struggling. I lament the fact that it took so long to get to this point but, regardless, it...

Ireland's participation in MARSUR III: Motion (22 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: .... The conversations we had were thorough and well-thought-through. At the time, I felt that the responses from the Minister were quite adequate in terms of why this motion is being brought forward and what we stand to benefit from it. The contributions I made then have not changed. I will reiterate them here. There is a substantial difference between Irish neutrality and...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy Joan Collins and the Independent group for bringing forward this very appropriate and apt motion. The motion is five paragraphs long and within those five paragraphs is a very clear roadmap for how we can make better the lives of workers throughout this country who are experiencing an anxiety that is being accelerated by the fact there does not seem to be a sense the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Substance Misuse (20 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...comes down to the question of how we solve these issues, which I have been trying to combat for most of my adult life. I refer to the comment by the Minister for Justice during the programme that she is going to clean up O'Connell Street. Much of what she was talking about when she said that pertained to people. One cannot clean up people. Dublin City Council is not going to go out and...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...;s cruelty to man. That is why the Irish State can have a role. As people who have been neutral, invaded no country, been occupied rather than occupier and felt the hand of colonialism, we can take a step forward, lead and be clear in our call that what is happening to people in Gaza and the West Bank is cruel, unjust and in violation of every tenet of humanitarian law. We should...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy Cairns for bringing forward this motion and acknowledge those in the Visitors Gallery who have travelled here today to stand once again for their basic rights. In particular I acknowledge my friend, Emilie Conway, from the Disabled Artists & Disabled Academics Group and her colleague, Jackie Conboy, who for the second week have come to the Dáil to demand basic...

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I commend my friend and colleague, Deputy Whitmore, on bringing forward this motion on child poverty. It is an issue we all care deeply about and hope to address in the lifetime of this Dáil because we have waited far too long. More than 200,000 children are at risk of poverty, 90,000 children are living in consistent poverty, and behind every one of those children there is a...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Gary Gannon: I am going to focus the majority of my speech on the education side of the budget yesterday, which was like the budget before it and the one before that, a budget of half measures. I do not use the term lightly. To describe a person, thing or entity as a half measure is not something I would like to do, yet that is exactly what we seem to get. It was the accusation that was levelled...