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Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 2393. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has assessed the public health implications of requiring high strength beers often 10-12% ABV to be served only in imperial pint (568ml), half-pint (284ml) rather than smaller quantities such as 150ml, which may better align with safe consumption guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45802/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 2394. To ask the Minister for Health if she will support amending the legal metrology (intoxicating liquor) regulations to allow smaller CE-marked metric serving sizes of draught beer and cider, in order to promote safer alcohol consumption in line with the national drugs strategy's aim of reducing alcohol harm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45803/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 2395. To ask the Minister for Health if she will engage with the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment on ensuring that metrology regulations relating to draught beer and cider are consistent with both EU law and Ireland's public health objectives. [45804/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for taking this issue tonight. A couple of week ago, I visited the neonatal unit of the Rotunda Hospital, which is just off Parnell Street in my own constituency of Dublin 1. While there, I met the clinicians there who are being asked to work in conditions that are incredibly unsuited to the importance of the work and to the vulnerability of the babies who...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Yes, that is completely as I expected. I understand and accept completely that as legislators, we do not, nor should we, have a role over planning but we do have leadership roles. We do have voice. We are elected to represent the people of our constituencies and to have a say about what is common sense, what is basic humanity and what is just nonsensical. I found it unfathomable when I...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I stand to speak on the statements on migration. There are many wonderful aspects to it. I would like to talk about the experience and enhancement of communities the length and breadth of the country, but there is also something we just cannot step away from at the moment. Things feel different. It feels like the racism has increased and like the fear in the communities who contact my...

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I acknowledge the speakers who brought the motion to the Dáil but I will not be supporting it. I will not say it contains no good ideas but it loses all reason where it refers to the temporary removal of personal items such as PlayStations, Xboxes and smartphones. Are we serious here? Am I right to believe the Government is not opposing a motion that calls for someone to go into...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 869. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of committals to prison in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by sentence length; and the number of individuals committed to prison in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025 who have served or are serving their first custodial sentence in Ireland. [48160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 870. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of people remanded to custody in 2024 and to date in 2025. [48161/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 871. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people remanded to custody who did not receive a sentence of imprisonment, either through no conviction or through receiving a sentence less than imprisonment in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 872. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people remanded to custody and sentenced to prison, and who were released immediately due to having already served their sentence on remand in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48163/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances where a prisoner held solely on remand shared a cell with a convicted prisoner in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2025 by prison, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48164/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average amount of time that prisoners, not including those on restricted regimes, could spend outside of their cells each day, by prison, by quarter in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of a recent media report regarding An Garda Síochána’s Security and Intelligence Section payment to a company (details supplied), if he will clarify the nature of the technology, software or services that were purchased; if this procurement included spyware; the legal basis upon which An Garda...

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I too welcome our guests in the Gallery. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion tonight. It is timely. Many households will be looking in on this debate with eagerness because winter is approaching. We broadly agree with most aspects of the motion before us this evening. We live in a country where energy prices are among the highest in Europe. That reality is hitting...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: In the Irish Examiner this morning, Cormac O'Keeffe gave voice to what many of us working in the area already know. Throughout Dublin city, even youth workers are starting to feel scared as they go about their work, such are the levels of increased violence and intimidation. I find that extraordinary. What is more extraordinary is that the Minister's Government has, over the last two...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Are they wrong?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I will tell the people-----

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (24 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: What strikes me reading through the Estimate is how little ambition the Government is showing when it come to targeting vulnerable young people, tackling domestic violence and living up to our obligations on prisons and immigration. Once again, we are presented with tables that look busy on the page but that fail utterly to meet the needs of the people who depend on a functioning and fair...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I am delighted to welcome everyone to the first public meeting of the Joint Committee on Drugs Use. The committee will have nine months to carry out its work and I look forward to engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and having insightful contributions on this most important topic. I welcome our witnesses who will engage with us later in this meeting. You are all very welcome. For...