Results 1-20 of 137 for long speaker:Gary Gannon

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

Gary Gannon: ...the Taoiseach will explain the basis for that decision. I understand we are about to recognise the state of Palestine, which is welcome, but surely we must go further. The time for doing so has long since passed. The Taoiseach wrote a letter to Ursula von der Leyen highlighting issues with the EU-Israel trade agreement but he has yet to receive a response. Is he embarrassed that his...

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

Gary Gannon: ...lives on in the stories that are shared across the board. My father also told me that a couple of years ago in the warfarin clinic he bumped into a friend of his, Derek Byrne, who passed away not too long ago. When they asked each other why there were there, Derek relayed that he still had shrapnel throughout his entire body because of what took place 48 years before that meeting. My...

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

Gary Gannon: ...have expressed fears about the rise in hate crime? Will the Irish Refugee Council be part of the task force? In 12 weeks, what will be the difference? I would like to be constructive. I have been asking for this for a long time. I would have liked to have seen more engagement before announcements were made. There are fine representatives of the north and south inner city,...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...the needs of those who are currently being left behind. An exceptional review has a role, but any such role must be within an allocation model. On its own, it is completely insufficient. Along with this, there is an implicit but active threat of allocations being reduced, which discourages those who need to apply from making an application if they have any sort of self-doubt. This is...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...their barbarism. If you think that is hyperbole on my part, when I say they turned a blind eye, I note that our Taoiseach, whose rhetoric has been strong, in contrast to our European neighbours, has, along with the Spanish Prime Minister, written to the EU asking a simple question: has Israel, through its crimes and the war it is waging in Gaza, breached Article 2 of the EU Israeli trade...

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....

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

Gary Gannon: ...spoken to people about this issue is the amount of women who have had to leave the workplace to take up a caring role and because of their husband's payments, the State determines that they will no longer be in receipt of an income. So many lose their financial independence and that is absolutely scandalous. Many carers are left with no financial independence having spent their whole...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...not expect to be the case when we started this initiative. The central process and authority that will manage contributions have the potential to provide better value and the potential for better long-term returns than would be the case if some firm from the pension industry had been given the job of managing the system for what would no doubt have been a very substantial fee. That is...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...views or belief systems but I know full well that this is not the case here. Please, help us to understand how these outcomes and horrific treatment of vulnerable persons were deemed to be acceptable for so long. Allow me to ask a different question. If the roles were reversed and if we sat in the position the Minister occupies now and he sat in ours, would the Minister settle for the...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...nothing short of insulting. It highlighted to them Airbnb’s complete ignorance and lack of care about the enormous disparity between the numbers of properties available for holiday rentals compared with long-term lets available in areas crucial to the survival of the Irish language. Many who grew up in Gaeltacht areas and are looking to start their own lives outside the family...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...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]

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ..." as not only direct killing but also "[d]eliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part". An immediate ceasefire would go a long way toward Israel complying with those orders. As such, the calls for a ceasefire are well made, despite the court not having the power to order one. A big fear for all of us is...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ..., develop a legal strategy and put the factors into place. The Tánaiste also referred to the Russian case and said that it took us six months for us to intervene. The work did not start after six months, however; it started a long time before that. The Department of Foreign Affairs was presenting its case and building the argument. All we are asking of the Irish Government is to...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...level across the country. Not a single child should suffer from poverty, yet UNICEF still found one in seven children are still living in poverty and more than one in ten have experienced prolonged poverty, which is defined as lasting at least three consecutive years. That is three years without the absolute minimum required to live a life of dignity or to have a fulfilling childhood. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Services Staff (18 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...been low - but we could act with greater urgency when we make a commitment to seeking legal advice as to how human rights clauses within trade agreements could be invoked. Three weeks is an incredibly long time for such advice to be forthcoming, and the Taoiseach seems to commit once again to offering words at the European Council meeting and calling for a ceasefire but, clearly, that is...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: ..., who engage with it, who live in it, who work in it and who wish to send their children to school in it safely. Confidence in any form derives from a feeling of security. It has been a very long time since anybody who engages with the city of Dublin in the manners I have outlined has felt in any way secure. The vote I cast today will be in their name. That feeling of not being safe is...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...like many of our fellow Members here, we are a young State, but a people with a proud and ancient history ... [It] is as such a country that we speak here today in the hope that our profound conviction, born of long experience of tragic frustration, may carry weight with this Assembly. I agree with Frank Aiken when he said that this remains the way forward in the context of Ireland's...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...that a multibillion euro surplus serves as a cushion for a rainy day when we really need it; however, for families around the country, that rainy day has come. For many, it has been raining for a long time. We should be considering a Bill committed to tackling the increasing level of child poverty to uphold the right of all children to live a decent life. Instead, we are considering a...

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

Gary Gannon: ...to peace proposals at the United Nations. Mr. Liam Cosgrave, our first Minister for External Affairs to attend the UN, outlined that Ireland is unique in that it is the only western country that has a long experience of being treated as a colony, not only of being temporarily occupied during a war but of being governed over many generations by a foreign country whose rule people rejected...