Results 61-80 of 3,429 for speaker:Gary Gannon
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: It is sometimes difficult not to interrupt the Taoiseach when he is purposely distorting-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: It is sometimes difficult not to interrupt when the Taoiseach is purposely distorting what exactly it is that he is trying to say. Politics is about choices. He knows this. We prisons that are overcrowded to the point where multiple sources, including those in the area of security and civil servants, have confirmed that a number of prisoners, including those suspected to be members of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: We have a situation that is detrimental to the human condition. For the purposes of the Government's performative cruelty, we are now putting people who are awaiting deportation flights into prison. They are in every prison, including Mountjoy and Dóchas. People are being taken out of IPAS centres and brought to prison. All the while, the Government is releasing drug dealers back...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: Sorry?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: This is ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: I turn to another gross institutional failure of the State, namely, the Irish Prison Service, which is in crisis as we speak. That is not a word that I use lightly. Right now, 5,415 people are in our prisons, with more than 400 of them sleeping on floors. Prison officers and inmates are living and working in dangerously overcrowded and volatile conditions. We have been repeatedly warned...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: -----when it comes to this action. It is imprisoning the vulnerable to send a message, all while more serious offenders operating within the machinery of organised crime are let out the back door early. This is performative cruelty at its most blatant. Organised crime groups are thriving in communities that are already deeply neglected. Releasing those involved in these networks will...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: The Government is putting people in prison for coming into the country.
- Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy O'Gorman for bringing forward this motion. It is timely and important. While I join my colleagues in welcoming the rise in public transport use, I cannot ignore the serious and growing issue of capacity and overcrowding, particularly on the Luas red line, which serves many of my constituents in Dublin Central. It is not just a matter of inconvenience; it is a matter of...
- Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank those who brought forward this motion, which is incredibly timely and important. It is one that resonates across society in Ireland. It is especially timely coming on the same day as the Raise the Roof protest, which is taking place outside the building this evening. People are once again calling on the Government to finally treat the housing crisis with the urgency it demands. I...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: Yes. I would appreciate a response.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: Like the Taoiseach, I believe Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. Given that is the case, what are we doing allowing uninspected flights involving private jets linked to military contractors and carrying dual-use goods to transit through Shannon Airport en route to Israel? These flights are not covert. The are documented and trackable. The Taoiseach might be aware that under EU...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: I second that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: 588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of deportation orders issued to individuals under the age of 18 in 2022, 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025; for a breakdown of the total number, by individual year of age, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32027/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals under the age of 18 who are currently in the State and subject to a deportation order, with a breakdown by individual year of age, and the average length of time since arrival in Ireland for each age group, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32028/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: 590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the top five countries of origin of children who have been issued deportation orders in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32029/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: 591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the access to legal advice and interpretation services provided to individuals detained in prison prior to enforced deportation by chartered flight in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32030/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: 592. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether protocols or standard operating procedures are in place to govern the provision of legal advice and interpretation services to individuals detained prior to deportation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32031/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)
Gary Gannon: 593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and roles of professionals present on board, including medical staff, child protection professionals, psychological or trauma support personnel, independent observers, and Gardaí or private security contractors, for each of the deportation flights carried out to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on...