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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...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Another diplomatic fiasco from this Government is splashed all over the front pages of the right-wing press in the UK today. According to The Daily Telegraph, Rishi Sunak is imploring the Irish Government not to set up checkpoints at the Irish Border. He is urging the Taoiseach to maintain an open Border. You could not make this stuff up. The Government's panicked, reactive and shambolic...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I am over here.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Yes, through the Chair. When is this shambolic Government going to get its act together and get a proper plan in place for migration because it is causing chaos for communities and provoking international incidents. Get it together.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: We know the result of the Government's proposals.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: On 14 November last year, when deputising in the position the Taoiseach now holds, he said that Israel had been blinded by rage and warned that peace could not be built on the graves of children. In the almost six months since then, the lives of 15,780 children have been lost. As we sit here today, the invasion of Rafah is impending. Rhetoric has been strong from the Irish State - there is...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will begin and end with a quote given to me many years ago by survivors of Magdalen laundries who formed the basis of the work I was asked me to undertake during my time as a Dublin City councillor, namely that the antithesis of restorative justice is the retraumatisation of victims. We should keep that quote close to us as we endeavour on the road before us in honouring and providing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: In advance of his ascent to our highest office, one of the Taoiseach's biggest statements was to say he would immediately convene a task force to address safety in the city of Dublin. When should we expect an update on that task force? Who will be on it and hen will it report? I note that another tragic stabbing incident happened on Tara Street last night. We cannot wait for 12 weeks for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. Like him, I have had to master the art of bilocation today, so I apologise in advance if any of these questions have already been asked. Last week we were assured border procedures were absolutely not detention centres. Will the witnesses speak to that if they can? I am very fearful of the border procedures to be set up under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: It is not grand that we have a situation happening at the Border where, devoid of any legislation, we have buses being stopped and people being profiled based on the colour of their skin and asked to show a passport. I am unsure, and perhaps the committee can inform me, under which legislation that currently happens and under which legislation the 100 gardaí headed to the Border...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: There are still questions outstanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Apologies, Chairman. I am not a member of this committee; I am a visitor-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: At present, although I would imagine this will become more relevant if the pact does come in towards 2026, what legal powers does the Garda have in terms of enforcement at the shared border between North and South? I am concerned about profiling and requests to produce passports. What are the legal powers at present and does the Department envision a scenario whereby legislation will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will make a brief comment in the time I have left. Importantly, we have a shared border, which is different from any other country that joins the pact. The lacuna within those legalities has not been addressed satisfactorily, so I would like that information.

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: We welcome the principles behind the Bill and we fully support it through its passage. I will not use the full 20 minutes. In welcoming the Bill, we acknowledge that it provides for the necessary advancements in the modernisation of how we deal with the beginning and the end of lives, times that are full of ecstasy and grief, in turn. Aside from the obvious fact that the process of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to seek more sustained, long-term solutions to support families experiencing food poverty during school holidays, given the Children’s Rights Alliance food provision scheme received applications totalling over €350,000 - six times its capacity, in the run up to the Christmas holidays in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the green paper on disability reform will impact students in higher education receiving disability payments. [9087/24]

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion, which is incredibly important and timely. The Social Democrats fully support it. The motion recognises carers' invaluable contribution to society and highlights their mistreatment by the State, which is something that I hope we can work collectively, across the Chamber, to rectify. I echo the call to fully abolish the carer's allowance...