Results 2,201-2,220 of 3,274 for speaker:Gary Gannon
- 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....
- 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...
- 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]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for reversing the decision to allow a school (details supplied) permission to put in place a second block of prefabs for the 2023-2024 term. [17151/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 787. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hares captured from the wild for the 2022-2023 season; and how many times they were used during capture. [17153/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 788. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of hares pinned, injured and killed during the 2022-2023 season. [17154/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 1099. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of coursing clubs that were active in the 2022-2023 season. [17152/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 1100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any welfare studies have been conducted by his Deptartment or Veterinary Ireland on the physical and mental trauma hares suffer as a result of coursing. [17155/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 1101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any welfare studies have been conducted by his Department or Veterinary Ireland on the physical and mental trauma hares suffer as a result of coursing; and if not, the reasoning for allowing wild animals to be captured, traumatised, injured, and killed for the sake of entertainment and gambling. [17156/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)
Gary Gannon: 1539. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the lack of paediatric palliative care in the south-east region; if there are plans to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17146/23]