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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: 743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether she will commit to prioritising the use of non-custodial measures, such as bail supports, or community-based alternatives, for pregnant women; and whether any portion of the upcoming prison system expansion or penal reform strategy will be ring-fenced for the protection of pregnant or postpartum women in conflict with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I listened to the Minister of State's reply intently. I was hoping to get answers to some of the questions. The Cathal Brugha Street site the school is moving into is barely suitable, if even that, for a school community, but it is expected to move in there in September. The contract on that school Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire has been given is to June 2027. The Minister of State...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I cannot believe I am about to say this, but right now on Dominick Street, in the heart of Dublin city centre, stands a half-built school that should be opening its doors in September. A Gaelscoil that was promised, planned and funded now lies idle behind hoardings. What is worse is the silence. This is not a new school project. The project is a result of a 23-year struggle by parents,...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: It appears that every single day we wake up to another horrifying headline. Every single week, women in this country read the worst imaginable stories, imagining that it could happen to them. This week, we have once again heard the name Jennifer Poole. Jennifer was 24 when she was brutally stabbed to death in her home in Finglas. She was killed by a man with a long history of violence...

Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(4)) Regulations 2025: Motion (10 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: It is important to speak today on this motion concerning new regulations under section 64 of the Data Protection Act. We are told these regulations do not introduce new restrictions but simply tighten up existing rules to make them better aligned with Article 23 of the GDPR Act. That is fine - indeed, it is welcome - but we should always be careful with motions like this to ensure that...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for her contribution. There were certainly some standout parts in her speech and I will pick out a few of them, if I may. To provide the context in which a motion such as this is brought to the Chamber, and I appreciate the Government understands the motivation of the Social Democrats for doing so, we should reiterate that throughout Ireland parents are...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Yes, I appreciate that but the point remains. I appreciate a local shop does not have a €10 million turnover but it comes to the same thing. We are not asking for this burden to be placed on the local shop in any town; we are asking for it to be placed on the big retailers that we know have profiteered on the very basics that people need in their presses. I do not accept the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the witnesses for attending. Have they done any disability assessment of how drones are experienced by a person with a sensory issue? I represent a number of areas, and one in particular, Drumcondra, has autism-friendly status. Have the witnesses done any disability assessment as regards sensory issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: That is the difficulty because if Mr. Healy tells me about families he has met, I have to tell him about families I have met. We are both operating without a research basis-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: -----and I do not want to do that, but last night I had a meeting in Drumcondra, where Manna is not even operating, yet there were 200 people there, predominantly older, and they were genuinely scared of the technology. There is a job of work to do if the fear can be alleviated - I accept that - but I am finding that very difficult. One of the things they are taking on as a community is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I will arrange that. Has Manna done safety flight risk assessments with the IAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Have they been made public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: No, just in general, for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: It would be good to see the safety risk assessment. I think that could go some way towards alleviating some of the concerns. Is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: That would be very welcome.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I add my support to Deputy Carthy's amendments. They are vital. While the Bill might have been tailored for a very specific situation, we do not get to separate which forms of terrorism we consider allowable, almost, in an international context and which ones we do not. There are now members of armed forces prohibiting baby formula from getting to groups of people, starving people and then...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I agree with points previously made, and I wish to go further. The Minister referenced international law as a reason why we do not need these amendments. I would hold very strongly that we can see what is happening in the realms of international law, where certain states, and Israel in particular, are in absolute violation and breach, and simply say they act in accordance when we know they...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: What we are really debating here is the idea of what constitutes terrorism, who gets to define it and who gets to throw that at another person. The definition of terrorism is really important because it has evolved over the centuries. I think if first came from the regime that did the terror in the French Revolution, under Maximilien Robespierre, which is very state-identified terrorism....

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Can I try to understand the Minister’s position in not supporting the amendments? He has rightly referred to what is happening in Gaza as a genocide, as have the Taoiseach and Tánaiste. Is he saying that there are laws on the Statute Book that mean a member of armed forces who have been complicit in that genocide can already be arrested if they are here today?