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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I listened to the Minister of State's reply intently. I was hoping to get answers to some of the questions. The Cathal Brugha Street site the school is moving into is barely suitable, if even that, for a school community, but it is expected to move in there in September. The contract on that school Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire has been given is to June 2027. The Minister of State...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I add my support to Deputy Carthy's amendments. They are vital. While the Bill might have been tailored for a very specific situation, we do not get to separate which forms of terrorism we consider allowable, almost, in an international context and which ones we do not. There are now members of armed forces prohibiting baby formula from getting to groups of people, starving people and then...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I agree with points previously made, and I wish to go further. The Minister referenced international law as a reason why we do not need these amendments. I would hold very strongly that we can see what is happening in the realms of international law, where certain states, and Israel in particular, are in absolute violation and breach, and simply say they act in accordance when we know they...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: What we are really debating here is the idea of what constitutes terrorism, who gets to define it and who gets to throw that at another person. The definition of terrorism is really important because it has evolved over the centuries. I think if first came from the regime that did the terror in the French Revolution, under Maximilien Robespierre, which is very state-identified terrorism....

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Can I try to understand the Minister’s position in not supporting the amendments? He has rightly referred to what is happening in Gaza as a genocide, as have the Taoiseach and Tánaiste. Is he saying that there are laws on the Statute Book that mean a member of armed forces who have been complicit in that genocide can already be arrested if they are here today?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: My question concerns glorification. Read in isolation, it seems bizarre but then one sees what is happening in Europe and the rest of the world and one thinks this is more than that. Can the Minister point to examples where a lack of glorification offences has directly impeded a terrorism prosecution? Is there something we have lacked to this point that the Minister is now solving with...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I have listened to the Dáil and committee debates and I still have no idea as to what the Minister is trying to solve with this section 3. I asked the last time but the Minister did not answer the question. What problem is the Minister trying to solve here? Will he point out to me one example of where a glorification offence directly impeded a terrorism prosecution? I have heard the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the witnesses for attending. Have they done any disability assessment of how drones are experienced by a person with a sensory issue? I represent a number of areas, and one in particular, Drumcondra, has autism-friendly status. Have the witnesses done any disability assessment as regards sensory issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: That is the difficulty because if Mr. Healy tells me about families he has met, I have to tell him about families I have met. We are both operating without a research basis-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: -----and I do not want to do that, but last night I had a meeting in Drumcondra, where Manna is not even operating, yet there were 200 people there, predominantly older, and they were genuinely scared of the technology. There is a job of work to do if the fear can be alleviated - I accept that - but I am finding that very difficult. One of the things they are taking on as a community is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I will arrange that. Has Manna done safety flight risk assessments with the IAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Have they been made public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: No, just in general, for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: It would be good to see the safety risk assessment. I think that could go some way towards alleviating some of the concerns. Is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: That would be very welcome.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I will raise an issue about a local school. In normal circumstances, I would not expect for one second the Taoiseach to have intimate details about a school in my constituency. The school is Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square. There was a moment during the last Dáil term when the name of that school was on all our lips because of the tragedy that befell the community...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: It does not know if it is going to go into litigation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: It does not. I promise.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: Homelessness.