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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (2 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 245. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth following the publication of the brief on Ireland's National Implementation Plan for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, if, in light of recent reports that the Government has shelved plans for emergency accommodation centres in areas where arson attacks or threats have occurred, she will clarify the criteria now...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (2 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 246. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department is concerned that withdrawing from certain areas in response to intimidation risks setting a precedent where illegal activity can influence or veto State policy on the placement of accommodation for international protection applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (2 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth following the publication of the brief on Ireland’s National Implementation Plan for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, the measures in place to ensure that private operators or NGOs running reception centres are not incentivised to quietly withdraw from contentious locations, thereby undermining the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (2 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 250. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has assessed the long-term impact of recent media reports that the Government has reversed the decisions to locate emergency accommodation in areas that have been subject to intimidation, local protest and/or arson on the integrity of Ireland’s international protection system; the...

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Oversight-----

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I am not sure how what I am raising is any less relevant or important than what Deputy Kelly spoke about. He was speaking about an issue that was not-----

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: My opening remarks referred to oversight mechanisms and also changing over from the ombudsman to Fiosrú.

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: And funding. Let me refer to why an oversight mechanism is necessary. Yesterday a group of women were taken away from a protest on genocide, brought to a police station and strip-searched and cavity-searched. What sort of funding can be given to ensure accountability for these women? There is no means by which what happened is justifiable or acceptable. This is related to the content...

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Today, we are speaking to a 291-page document that addresses the changing over of Votes under the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024. Part of this involves the components that deal with whole-of-government responsibility, the strengthening of oversight and accountability, enhanced oversight mechanisms, community engagement and the absorption of current structures into the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Investor courts.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: To respond to the Minister's last comment, I would encourage him to go down to Rutland National School in his own constituency. It has just received an electricity bill that creates a risk it will have to close its doors. That is not the issue I intended to raise, however. It has been 157 days since the report of the Dublin city task force was launched to great fanfare. We remember all...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2025: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: For many of the reasons outlined, the Social Democrats will not be able to support the reduction in the accommodation payment for Ukrainians. When the invasion began more than two years ago, Irish people on the whole were incredible in how they answered the call. Many opened up their homes and, in doing so, found friends and members of the community who have come in have contributed and...

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: As we are discussing post-EU Council statements I am glad it is the Minister of State who has joined us. Earlier we brought a motion on the triple lock and during his contribution the Minister of State accused me and members of my party of being anti-EU. He went further and almost compared us to Farage. That was an interesting point. I did not see the Minister of State doing any of the...

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: I remind the Minister of State it was places in the UK, such as Holyhead in Anglesey, that voted overwhelmingly to remove themselves from the EU precisely because they were not seeing any benefits from it. They were the areas most devastated by poverty and most removed from what we describe as the benefits of that Union. One of the single greatest threats, as we engage in an arms...

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister of State can shake his head and look as bewildered as he likes.

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister of State can shake his head and look as bewildered as he likes but here is the simple fact: the Government has no mandate to remove the triple lock. I accept the Minister of State’s party won more seats than we did in the general election but here is what its manifesto said: “Continue to protect and promote ... neutrality including sensible reform of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State. I assure him my office contacted his office about a week ago regarding that offer. We talked about not wanting to pre-empt any future budget negotiations and in parliamentary form that is absolutely fine. However, if I can pre-empt what happens in the absence of schools being adequately resourced and funded, it is that children are left behind. I will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: This is my first time speaking since yesterday and despite the lowering of standards we are seeing from the Government, nothing will stop me coming in here and speaking on behalf of my community. I want to speak to the Minister of State about funding for schools in the north inner city. Schools in the north inner city, like most schools around the country, are at the coalface of many of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he or any of his Department officials were made aware of the visit a person (details supplied) to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day before 12 March 2025; and, if so, to provide details of this communication. [14276/25]