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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of Dublin City Council’s recent decision to restrict priority social housing status to care leavers coming solely from residential care, thereby excluding those transitioning from foster care; the measures his Department is taking to ensure that all vulnerable young people exiting State care, regardless...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will review planning regulations around hoarding and advertising on protected structures, such as the railway bridge at Ballybough, the only protected structure in the community, which is currently dominated by large-scale commercial advertising; if he will engage with Dublin City Council and Iarnród...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the establishment of the Local Democracy Taskforce, as announced by his Department on 26 March 2025; the specific terms of reference for this taskforce; the timeline and mechanisms through which it intends to implement the Government’s commitments to rebalance power between elected councillors and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will provide more clarity on the availability of welfare priority for care leavers under exceptional social grounds in situations where they are at risk of homelessness. [18299/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 346. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has assessed the current availability and capacity of childcare services in the East Wall and Sheriff Street areas of Dublin, in light of the imminent completion of approximately 600 new residential units; whether there are plans to establish new childcare facilities or expand existing ones to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to address the reported shortage of social workers within Tusla’s aftercare services, which may impact young care leavers' ability to meet the new housing priority criteria put forward by Dublin City Council. [18297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures in place to ensure that all young people leaving State care are adequately supported in their transition to independent living, particularly in light of the current housing emergency. [18298/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 402. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the GP Care for All Initiative, particularly concerning a practice (details supplied) in Dublin’s north inner city, which is at risk of closure in June 2025 if a sustainable solution is not found; the measures being taken to ensure the continued provision of general practitioner services to the 2,600 medical card patients currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 403. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has reviewed the availability of primary care and GP services in the East Wall and Sheriff Street area of Dublin in view of the imminent population increase from the delivery of nearly 600 new residential units; if additional resources or facilities are planned to meet expected healthcare demand; the engagement that has taken place with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (10 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: 404. To ask the Minister for Health if comprehensive health impact assessments have been conducted in Dublin central to evaluate the effects of prolonged exposure to elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter on residents living in identified hotspots within Dublin Central, where recent studies have shown nitrogen dioxide levels exceeding World Health Organisation...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I understand and appreciate that later this week we will have statements on the Farrelly commission report but given the gravity of the failures Grace has had to endure, perhaps words alone will not be enough in this instance. After nearly a decade and a cost of €13 million, basic questions still have not been answered. If the Government wants to take action and do something...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: President Higgins rightly warned this week against the outrageous abuse of antisemitism accusations to silence criticism of Israel and its genocidal actions in Gaza. Yet, the Government continues to endorse the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, IHRA, definition despite it being internationally discredited for its chilling effect on free speech and legitimate condemnation of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Why have it, then?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Why have it?

Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (29 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the suspension of the powers, responsibilities and entitlements of guardianship in certain circumstances and for that purpose to amend the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 and to provide for related matters. The Social Democrats wish to introduce this Bill for the simple reason that there exists what the...

Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (29 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Labour for bringing forward this important motion. I bid a huge welcome to the parents and guardians who are in the Gallery, many of whom I recognise from my community. There also people who have had to travel to the Dáil previously and who have slept outside the offices of the Department merely to vindicate their child's rights. Each time I see those very same faces, hear...

EU Regulations: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on the motion on Ireland's opt-in to the EU's amending regulation on insolvency proceedings. This might appear to be a technical matter and just another adjustment to European legal frameworks, but to those of us who believe the law should first and foremost serve people, it is anything but abstract. Insolvency law, at its core, governs what happens...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: There is much to welcome in the legislation as proposed. While we support many of the anti-SLAPP measures that are included, like others, we in the Social Democrats recoil at the absence of juries within the courts system. Juries provide the judgment of a person's peers. Juries have a sense of public confidence and democratic principles built into them by their very nature. Juries reflect...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for being forthright in his explanation of how his views have not so much evolved but probably remained the exact same. I took from his contribution that this is not something he believes in good conscience. He said he was bound by the principles of compromise. If I am to understand this, Fine Gael got 20.8% of the first preference vote in the last general election. I...