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- Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: Absolutely.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: We will follow it up in another session, bringing in some witnesses from the sector. If anyone wishes to make a last point, he or she may do so.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank the witnesses for their expertise and for helping to inform us. The committee was tasked with doing a job following on from the recommendations of the citizens assembly and the previous Oireachtas committee. They are expert witnesses and the fact they have given us their time will help our work a lot. As always, if there is anything we can do - and most of us are reasonably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I echo the sentiments of both the Chair and the other members that for a Bill of this size, it is almost farcical that we are being allocated this amount of time to go through such a comprehensive and diverse legislation. I thank all the contributors here today. I want to ask my first question to Dr. Leahy, if that is okay. From her account, it is clear the disclosure of counselling...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank Dr. Leahy for that. I want to talk to Mr. Herrick next. He has noted that the GREVIO, the expert group monitoring the Istanbul Convention, has made recommendations in this area. Could the witness say what GREVIO has specifically recommended regarding disclosure of victim's personal records and why those recommendations are so significant for protecting survivors' rights?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I think it is imperative the committee establishes from the Department why exactly it is deviating from those best practices. I want to move onto the pepper spray in prisons. Ms Brady mentioned that in rare cases, chemical irritants can cause death. We know from the CPT report that there has been a pattern of preventable deaths in custody and a lack of reviews to prevent reoccurrence....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: What is driving the need for such a chemical irritant in prisons and what does the evidence tell us? Have prisoner-on-prison guard assaults risen or is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Thank you, Ms Brady.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: The Bar Council referenced in its submission that the Bill would require a court hearing in every single case. It warned of this potentially causing more delays in a system that is already slow and onerous. Will Ms O'Leary recommend specific provisions to make the system more efficient and victim-centred or even fairer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I would like to come back on that issue. Very briefly, I have a question for the Courts Service. We spoke about how increased technology would improve efficiency. Is that the only barometer by which we should increase technology?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (2 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recognition rate, including appeals, for all international protection applicants; and the recognition rate, including appeals, for applicants from designated safe countries of origin, to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52688/25]
- Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: We were waiting.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: Apologies have been received from Deputy O'Shea and Senator Ní Chuilinn. I am delighted to welcome everyone to the third public meeting of the joint committee on drug use to discuss kinship care and care. I welcome the witnesses, with whom we will engage later in the meeting. I will introduce them as I call them to speak. Our engagement is on the topic of kinship care and we will...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I invite Ms Fiona Kearney to give her opening statement on behalf of FamiliBase.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I am sorry but I am going to have to stop you there. You are a minute over time.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I promise this will not be the last time you talk. I will let you back in.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: It was great. Thank you. I invite Mr. Gary Broderick from SAOL to give his opening statement.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: Thank you. I call Ms Laura Dunleavy to give the opening statement on behalf of Kinship Care Ireland.