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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: The Minister definitely does not believe that. He cannot believe it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: Just answer the question. You cannot keep on waffling.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: Is this Leaders' Questions or is the Tánaiste just commenting on the Deputy?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that children with acute disabilities are not entitled to free public transport. [28927/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to reduce poverty among carers, given the recent report from an organisation (details supplied) showing 69% of carers find it difficult to make ends meet. [28928/24]

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: I begin with a simple assertion we can all agree with. The work Irish peacekeepers dedicate their lives to has never been more important. In 2023, we saw them work in incredibly difficult and dangerous conditions across the Middle East and other conflict zones around the world. In saying that, we should once again express our condolences to the family of Private Seán Rooney. I hope...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this vitally important motion. Men's violence against women is insidious. It was in January 2022 that I last recall this Dail gathering in a time of great national grief and astonishment at the brutal murder of a young woman at the hands of a violent man, to say the words "never again", and use language along the lines of zero tolerance and advancing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 61. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the law forbidding the Defence Forces from suspending or terminating the contract of staff for serious offences before the cases for such offences have been heard by a civilian court is under review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28368/24]

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: I am speaking on behalf of my colleague, Deputy Catherine Murphy, at short notice. We can appreciate that Deputy Murphy has some other matters to attend to this evening and we wish her well. We know we are near a recess period when we are presented with very broad legislation with the infamous tag "miscellaneous" attached to it. I want to provide some context for the words I will speak....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Responsibilities (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 92. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the responsibilities and powers of the Minister of State with responsibility for EU Affairs and Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28231/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of instances of Defence Forces accommodation currently lying idle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 102. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel who have left the Naval Service to join the private sector since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28234/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the levels of home tuition support approved for September 2024 versus the levels approved for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28112/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: We do not want to politicise this issue. Climate is too important for that. It is the Environmental Protection Agency and its analysis which has shown us we are missing the targets. I presume none of us take issue with its figures. As much as we talk a good game about the need for climate action and the importance of reducing emissions, with which we in the Social Democrats are, of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: While I do not doubt for a second the Minister's vigour and belief in how we close the gaps, we are specifically looking for the kind of plans contained within this Government which are in keeping with the figures projected by the EPA. The reality is the climate action plan has a big hole. By the sounds of it, there are no concrete plans - none the EPA can measure - to address it. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has analysed the Government's climate action plan and found that if every measure were fully implemented, we would only reduce our emissions by 29%, rather than our legally binding target of 51%. This is the second year in a row the EPA has come to this conclusion, so nothing the Government has announced in the past 12 months has led to a verifiable...

Pre-European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: These pre-European Council statements begin at a time when we have nominated a new EU Commissioner, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath. I wish him all the best. We are told that this week is a big week because this is when all of the negotiations and backroom dealing starts. I have heard it reported many times in the media and elsewhere that Ireland hopes to get one of those...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Independent Group for this timely motion. It is an important motion for discussion as schools start to wind down at the end of the year and have an opportunity to rest and to start looking at what they had to do just to keep the lights on during the past year. Primary schools nationwide face a funding crisis. They face crises on multiple fronts but funding is to the fore....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for that comprehensive response. I do not doubt for a second that no one has a monopoly of care for the city or that everyone wants to see it policed effectively. Nonetheless, too often we hear about initiatives such the ones laid out by the Minister of State that have a displacement effect. Very purposely, I chose Dublin 7 with that in mind. Greater...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: This is my fifth, potentially sixth, time having a Topical issue during this Dáil year on the matter of crime in and around the constituency of Dublin Central. On none of those occasions has a Minister with responsibility for justice been here. While I appreciate that cannot always be the case, I would have expected that it would have happened on at least one of those occasions. I...