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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: What other matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I understand how appearance might be one such assessment. I do not understand a single other-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I am just trying to understand more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Will the IHREC or the Department of justice explain to the committee what is actually meant by legal counselling? IHREC has referenced this. Can the Department explain legal counselling and how it differs from legal representation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Will the Department clarify what legal counselling means, by its understanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I only have a couple of seconds left so I will not ask any more questions. I have significant concerns. I am not sure how a country like ours, with a legacy of incarceration, detention and the failures that go with it, can go down this road on which we have so little clarity and so little access to further information. Heads of Bill are being developed as we go through pre-legislative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: We are doing a number of things today but what we are effectively doing is scrutinising the expansion of the powers of detention within this State, which will now include children. We are going to do all of that without any sort of independent monitoring framework under OPCAT. That is effectively correct, is it not? Does anyone dispute that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Can I ask the Department how that was that factored in to the crafting of the heads of Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I ask the same question of Dr. Keilthy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Also, to get clarity from the Department, when I asked a question earlier, the Department said that, in the first instance, migrants would be afforded the same entitlement to legal advice as they have now. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Am I to understand that, from the Department's perspective, migrants who come here and have their own means to avail of legal advice will have the same standards but, otherwise, that will not be the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Regarding the legal counsellors, is it the expectation of the Department that they will be barristers or solicitors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Has the Department engaged with the Legal Aid Board on whether it will be able to provide such a service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Ombudsman for Children pointed out that the Bill allows a single representative to act for up to 30 unaccompanied minors at once. Do we have any sense from anybody, including from the Department, how that number was arrived at? It seems to be far above the maximum in many other EU countries.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of each social media advertising campaign, in 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54676/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 224. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the Defence Force’s expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of each social media advertising campaign, in each of the years 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54678/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Advertising (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 225. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of Reserve Defence Forces Recruitment Campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54680/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Advertising (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of each social media advertising campaign, in 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54672/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Advertising (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of each social media advertising campaign, in 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54675/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Advertising (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 681. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of each social media advertising campaign, in 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54674/25]