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

Paul Gogarty: As others have said, people are suffering from massive price inflation across a range of areas, including in supermarkets, the subject of this debate. The causes are varied, including wars, energy price hikes, supply shortages, Brexit and so on, but the suspicion remains that the supermarket chains are making excessive profits. As Ireland is the second most expensive country in Europe,...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I will go as quick as I can. I reiterate the support for the power-up scheme and the ICOB scheme or some incarnation continuing on. I have a question on indigenous innovation. We are way behind on wave energy. For example, we need to develop investment in deep water ports to meet our wind energy target. Is there anything planned for massive capital increases or borrowing for that? On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I congratulate Ms Kennedy on her new role and I thank her for the presentation. I was here for it but then I had to go to the Chamber. I will try not to repeat questions that others have asked. I checked with my colleague and not too much has been asked about the AI side of things, so that is where I will focus. I noticed a piece in the Journal of Accountancy, which is US based. It did a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Regarding how this is being talked about more and more, I presume that in the training for actuaries right now, it is being integrated. In that context, the risks are coming from the people coming up. It is a bit like second-level students using AI to come up with an answer but they cannot show how they came up with the answer. Obviously, there will be checks and balances. The job of...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Findings of the 2025 European Movement Ireland EU Poll: European Movement Ireland (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome Ms O’Connell and Ms Hayes and thank them for the presentation. It is always good to get an independent viewpoint of European Union views over the years. Historically, we have been one of the strongest supporters of the European Union over a period but, as with other areas, it has declined. There was a bit of an increase a couple years back and it has gone back to a level....

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Ba mhaith liom seans cúpla focal a rá anocht. I was in the Green Party back in 2009 when everything was cut to shreds. Back then I fought a little bit of a rearguard battle with some of my colleagues to get education cuts reversed and to stop registration fees being increased. That was when stuff was quite expensive. The cost of living rose post Covid and the registration fees...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We have an amendment of a Bill to legislation that has not been enacted. Looking at it, at face value one has to welcome it. Regarding the retrospective suspension of planning permission duration during judicial review, insofar as there are delays caused by judicial reviews, I take this point. However, as others have said, judicial reviews are not the main issue, which I will go into in a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if part of a hotel complex (details supplied) is now a holding and detention centre for those awaiting deportation; if a coherent policy in terms of whether those awaiting deportation at IPAS centres are allowed to roam free or are they locked into a hotel room 24-hours-a-day; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if IPAS detainees being held pre-deportation or pending prison transfer can legally be held in hotels (details supplied) given that this is not purely accommodation, rather quasi-detention and likely falls outside the “hotel emergency reception” exemption and would be considered unauthorised development unless...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 658. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the public consultation on safety and security protocols, or impact assessments that has been completed for deportation order recipients to be accommodated at hotel IPAS centres; what is planned in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37703/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Part of Citywest Hotel is now a holding or detention centre for those awaiting deportation. Is there a coherent policy? Are those awaiting deportation at IPAS centres allowed to roam free or are they locked into hotel rooms 24 hours a day? If detainees are held pre-deportation or pending prison transfer, that means the role of the centre is not purely accommodation; it is quasi-detention....

Committee on European Union Affairs: Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the ambassador for his presentation and answers so far. I am curious about this and want to get the wider context. Denmark has shown great leadership on green issues, as the ambassador mentioned. Trying to get the EU to move as a block is very slow and quite difficult. I am trying to get my head around the issue of the genocide, as we call it, in Gaza. Denmark was invaded by the...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I would like nothing more than the Irish ambassador to Denmark to be absolutely grilled on the nitrates directive when it is our turn. Given the size of the CAP funding that is supporting farmers, does Mr. Thuesen think it could be reoriented, wholly or in part, for more environmental sustainability initiatives, which farmers would be leading the way on, in many cases?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Nursing Homes (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 205. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people under 65 who have transitioned out of nursing homes since 2021; the number in the same cohort who have entered nursing homes in that same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36248/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 206. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the rationale behind cutting the budget for the enhanced quality of life scheme, which supports personal assistants and electric wheelchairs and so on, from €812,000 to €251,000 in the past year; if this reduction can be justified in the context of the Government’s stated aim to end the institutionalisation of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in nursing homes living with early onset Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36249/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under 65 currently occupying hospital beds while awaiting placement in a nursing home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36250/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Cherry Orchard Hospital campus is not being used to provide a full range of services for people with neurodegenerative conditions in Dublin Mid-West and neighbouring constituencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36252/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Paul Gogarty: With the news reports of increasing levels of domestic abuse, the family courts are under more pressure than ever. I and others have raised before the need to get rid of the in camera rule. I am aware the Minister is doing something at the end of the year, but this possibly needs to happen more quickly because we still have cases going on where so-called experts are giving section 32 and...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I support the motion on housing tabled by my colleagues in the Independent Technical Group. This is probably the 20th or 25th discussion on housing that we have had since the start of the year. I worry that as we are almost 10% through the lifetime of this Dáil, we will end up not getting anything done. We need to focus very quickly on putting in some measures that will actually...