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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1070. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the main grounds on which family reunification applications are refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1071. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are still currently 13.5 staff members working in the family reunification unit; to provide a year-by-year breakdown of staffing levels in this unit for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1072. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for Irish citizenship received so far in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30544/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1073. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for applications for Irish citizenship; how this compares with average processing times in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30545/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1074. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff currently working in the Citizenship Unit of the Department of Justice; how this compares with staffing numbers in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30546/25]

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: While I accept fully that we do not want to be nodding heads after the fact, it seems we are being asked to be nodding heads before the fact, which is a strange situation to be in. The Minister indicated that it is understanding that the Commission would not enter negotiations without some form of human rights framework as the basis of negotiations. How did he come to that conclusion? Did...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: We both know there are people being deported and sent back for various reasons to countries where there are not particularly high human rights standards. Hypothetically, a person who comes here from Kazakhstan, for example, may be coming from some sort of political conflict or have fled as a result of issues relating to their sexuality. We all know there are scenarios where they do not want...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister knows we have different views on that.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister will know as well as I do there are people here who are claiming asylum and cannot prove the violation they speak to for fear their country may be contacted and their family targeted as a consequence of that. This is a regular issue that happens within this country and others and it is particularly important when we are developing new frameworks. When it comes to the concept...

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: There is very little left to say about Gaza that has not already been said and there is almost nothing left in Gaza that has not already been destroyed. We are past the point of shock and statements; what remains is rubble, mass graves and the silence of children whose names we will never know. We welcome this motion and support every line in it but we have to be honest. Ireland, though it...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: To Lucia, Jim and the O'Farrell family sitting with us in the Gallery today, I offer my condolences and express my admiration of their dignity in grief, which has been extraordinary. Their courage is incalculable. They should never have had to fight this hard or for this long just to be heard. They should never have had to carry that burden of proof. Their campaign has been an act of love...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the process being put in place to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to "Examine ways to facilitate people who are on work permits to move jobs more easily and legally, while protecting the integrity of the immigration system"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current policy and operational procedures governing the detention of individuals pending deportation via chartered flights. [26717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether individuals subject to deportation orders are being detained in prisons while awaiting such flights. [26718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the number of individuals detained pending deportation via chartered flights; the specific prison or detention facilities in which they were held; the number of nights each individual spent in detention prior to deportation, to date 2025. [26719/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (22 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: He made more sense than the Minister of State after six months.

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (21 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank An Ceann Comhairle and Members for the latitude. Similar to Deputy Carthy, I thank the staff in office of the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, and the staff of IPAS for helping in recent weeks and months to dispel, where they arise, myths that are being spread purposely by far-right agitators. There was a particularly difficult situation in my locality in recent days. I am...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2025: Motion (21 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: This proposed reduction in the accommodation recognition payment from €800 to €600 a month is not just a bureaucratic tweak, it is a deeply short-sighted move that will hurt the very people we have asked to step up, that is, the thousands of families who have opened their homes to Ukrainian refugees fleeing war. When the war began and we stepped up, we talked about the huge...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: Only now, after 19 months of siege and slaughter, after the images of starving Palestinian children with swollen bellies and hollow eyes, after the mass graves and the bombed-out hospitals, after the annihilation of entire families, only now do we hear the Government saying that next week, it will bring a memo in respect of the occupied territories Bill. Only now, when the scale of...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the opportunity for statements on assessments of need. We often talk about demand and need and solutions. The Government today has made reaffirmations. The Tánaiste reiterated his commitment to address this issue after 14 years of Fine Gael in government. We must also give voice to many people who are now teenagers or adults who have been left behind because of the failures...