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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (22 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: He made more sense than the Minister of State after six months.

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: To Lucia, Jim and the O'Farrell family sitting with us in the Gallery today, I offer my condolences and express my admiration of their dignity in grief, which has been extraordinary. Their courage is incalculable. They should never have had to fight this hard or for this long just to be heard. They should never have had to carry that burden of proof. Their campaign has been an act of love...

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: There is very little left to say about Gaza that has not already been said and there is almost nothing left in Gaza that has not already been destroyed. We are past the point of shock and statements; what remains is rubble, mass graves and the silence of children whose names we will never know. We welcome this motion and support every line in it but we have to be honest. Ireland, though it...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: While I accept fully that we do not want to be nodding heads after the fact, it seems we are being asked to be nodding heads before the fact, which is a strange situation to be in. The Minister indicated that it is understanding that the Commission would not enter negotiations without some form of human rights framework as the basis of negotiations. How did he come to that conclusion? Did...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: We both know there are people being deported and sent back for various reasons to countries where there are not particularly high human rights standards. Hypothetically, a person who comes here from Kazakhstan, for example, may be coming from some sort of political conflict or have fled as a result of issues relating to their sexuality. We all know there are scenarios where they do not want...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister knows we have different views on that.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister will know as well as I do there are people here who are claiming asylum and cannot prove the violation they speak to for fear their country may be contacted and their family targeted as a consequence of that. This is a regular issue that happens within this country and others and it is particularly important when we are developing new frameworks. When it comes to the concept...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the process being put in place to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to "Examine ways to facilitate people who are on work permits to move jobs more easily and legally, while protecting the integrity of the immigration system"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current policy and operational procedures governing the detention of individuals pending deportation via chartered flights. [26717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether individuals subject to deportation orders are being detained in prisons while awaiting such flights. [26718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Gary Gannon: 450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the number of individuals detained pending deportation via chartered flights; the specific prison or detention facilities in which they were held; the number of nights each individual spent in detention prior to deportation, to date 2025. [26719/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: The press release.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Commissioner. I join others in expressing solidarity and sadness on the loss of his colleague, Garda Kevin Flatley. I was grateful that the Commissioner’s statement arrived on Saturday. I felt it was early. While it gave us a lot of time to prepare for today’s meeting, going through its six pages, I could not help but feel there was a lot missing. There is no...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Commissioner. The Policing Authority found that An Garda Síochána had no structural intelligence system to anticipate far-right protests outside of Dublin. Officers were relying on ad hoc social media monitoring. How was that allowed to continue into 2023 and 2024? To be honest, it looks like it is still continuing today.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: There still appears to be a reluctance among some members of An Garda Síochána to intervene earlier in violent protests. They seem to fear escalation or disciplinary fallout. Do gardaí have the tools and training to act assertively without waiting for reinforcements or being left to fail? In the context of the failures in 2023, will the Commissioner give an example of...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: While I am conscious there were arrests and ultimately sentences arising from the events of 23 November 2023, they seem to be at the lower end of the scale. They were the people who engaged in the violence. The people who instigated the violence through online platforms and large social media platforms, however, some of whom are now public figures, seem to have got away scot-free. Going...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: In my community, there are at least three public parks. While I do not know whether the canal walkways are becoming unpoliceable, they certainly seem to be unpoliced. Is there some form of policy of containment in place in the city centre where people engaged in this behaviour are being redirected from the commercial city centre and into our residential areas? It certainly feels like that...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: In regard to the parks, specifically Mountjoy Square, Liberty Park and the Diamond Park, residents contact me every day and I have been contacting An Garda Síochána because they genuinely seem to be in fear. There does not seem to be any form of intervention there. I am surprised Dr. Coxon has not heard about this because it is constantly being referenced through the various...