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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of one-parent families that availed of parent's benefit and leave in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19426/23]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Step three is to make it more difficulty for organised criminal actors to pursue power and profit. We do this by targeting problem-orientated policing and visible community policing around the clock. We need to separate the functions of the police so that personnel who are expected to engage and build relationships in those communities are not the same people we ask to start going in and...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Sorry, will my time be respected here? I am involved as well.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Not really understanding what to expect from the contributions today, when this was first presented to us, it came under the banner of statements on gangland crime. That was changed over the course of a week, I am grateful, because I do not recognise where gangland is. Given some of the comments coming from the other side of the Chamber-----

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: -----for some, this is not actually about the communities who are impacted, devastated and exploited by the issue of organised criminality. It seems to be an opportunity to just take shots and further relegate this Chamber to some form of Westminsterisation. I will not stand for it. This is an important topic that impacts the community I represent and we will have our time to talk about...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: For example, the Deputy referenced the example of New York and the mayor there who had a zero-tolerance approach. The people of New York must be dismayed to hear the him then say that the problem has somehow been eradicated.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Deputy then went on to say that we have a border and through some form of intervention of that, we should be able to stop drugs coming in.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Through the Chair, can the Deputy cite one prison, for example-----

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I will rephrase.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: To highlight an example, we cannot keep drugs out of a single prison not only in Ireland, but in Europe or the US. People who believe, as what we have heard from the Deputies to my right, that is possible and that perpetuates the problem.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Not everything else has been tried. We have had a form of war on drugs for night on 50 years in this country. Deputy Durkan referenced the great Tony Gregory, who did stellar and immensely courageous work in this Chamber in bringing names to those people who flooded the communities upwards of 40 years ago. That should always be remembered. It is, however, four decades later and the...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Portuguese model does work.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I would also offer another example for the Deputy maybe to investigate, which is the Icelandic model. The Icelandic model of intervention in organised crime, once again, is about early intervention. It gives, by right, every young person in that country access to culture and drama because a gateway to engaging in criminality and that form of desperation is poverty and a lack of opportunity....

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: No, no, no.

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: In this Chamber and indeed in this Republic we are no strangers to the word "crisis". What I find fascinating about its use and how it is regularly thrown around this Chamber is that the word "crisis", which means the same thing regardless of the context in which it is used, can evoke such a divergence of urgency from those in power, depending on who is impacted by it and who is at fault for...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I express my best wishes to EU ambassador Aidan O’Hara on what must have been an incredibly traumatic experience. I am going through the minutes of the EU Council meeting so I can differ from other contributors. What stood out for me was the EU’s strong condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for imposing import bans on Ukrainian grain and farm produce, and rightly so. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay in the progression of the permanent building for a school (details supplied), before and since inflationary issues have arisen. [17147/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a school (details supplied) will move from temporary accommodation. [17148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support measures in place for schools or neighbouring schools, impacted by the hold on 58 school building projects; if such extenuating circumstances impact re-allocation of teachers and/or prefabs; and which schools have been impacted in this way. [17149/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a decision has been taken to suppress a ninth teaching post for a school (details supplied), given that it is a developing school and projected enrolment numbers exceed both the required 215 and 231 pupils required to be eligible for an additional post. [17150/23]