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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: The total Israeli blockade on humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip has now passed 60 days, in what the United Nations human rights chief, Volker Türk, has described as a "new unseen level" of humanitarian crisis. A recent report by Amnesty International stated that Israel was carrying out livestreamed genocide in Gaza, routinely targeting civilians and engaging in torture and...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I am generally supportive of this Bill and, unlike some of my colleagues, I see the rationale in not having juries for certain types of defamation cases. However, I have a query about the corporate entity issue, which is a follow up on what other Deputies said. Let us say there is a chain of hardware stores - let us call them Fianna Fáil hardware - and it is owned by Joe Bloggs. Let...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: It looks fantastic. It is a great plan with great graphics. If one reads it line by line and bit by bit, it has so much to offer but we all know it is aspirational without the investment. I give the example of water infrastructure. We need massive investment in water infrastructure to facilitate housing. The plan references offshore energy potential. We need massive investment in our...

EU Regulations: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I am grateful for a few minutes to speak on this very technical but necessary rubber-stamping of amendments to Regulation (EU) 2015/848 to modify its Annexes A and B, following the changes in seven EU member states, as the Minister outlined. It will ensure that the regulation continues to facilitate effective civil and judicial co-operation at EU level. The Minister mentioned that we...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Will the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach remind me how long I have? Is it one minute and 30 seconds?

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: That is short enough, but it is sufficient to say that I support the motion. I have been around as an elected representative for a long time and was involved with the education committee when the original Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act was enacted. As others have said, it is shocking that so many aspects of that legislation still have not been enacted. I was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as ucht a fhreagra. The reply mentions that there could be up to five minutes' delay. The whole selling point for Adamstown and Kishoge was that we have four tracks. Some of it was part of the strategic development zone scheme, as was the Phoenix Park tunnel interconnection. To put this in context, the people currently living in Adamstown and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Maidin mhaith, a Aire Stáit. Is lá álainn é ag deireadh mhí Aibreáin. Ceapaim gur lá iontach é le dul ar thuras traenach. Is é sin an t-ábhar I am talking about today. It is a great day for a train journey but if one lives in the newer areas in my constituency, such as Adamstown, and if one is an IT professional who needs to go to the...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank colleagues for tabling the motion. This is an important issue. It was good to have a wider contextual debate on what went on in CHI earlier. To recap, I take on board what the Minister said during her contribution. I did not get a chance to come back to it during that debate but I will do so now. We need accountable and deliverable movement in the next couple of months due to the...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Children's Health Ireland is a publicly-funded hospital group in disarray. We have had the ongoing issues with spinal surgeries, the shocking use of non-medical grade springs for scoliosis, which my colleagues mentioned so I will not go into it even though it is such an important issue, and the massive waiting lists. Later, we will discuss the large number of unnecessary hip surgeries,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. Yet, this is what we keep doing in relation to the scourge of nitrous oxide usage. The latter has led to serious injury and death in this country and is now a major source of litter in our communities. So far, it has been left to the Revenue Commissioners to deal with the issue. In that context, they seized 55,000...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We had some discussion yesterday on other aspects of Irish Water. I mentioned the ageing infrastructure and the fact that we have high levels of leakage - 40% overall, although 16% in newer, fast-growing areas like my part of south Dublin. However, some pipes, particularly in the city areas, are more than 100 years old. We need that general investment. That is clear. As others have...

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: To continue from what I said earlier, if MAGA USA has a plan aside from Trump's ego and desire to exercise power, it could be that the tariff strategy is aimed at devaluing the dollar while also managing to retain it as the global reserve currency. I am not sure about that but it is a radical and risky strategy, if there is a strategy. It could equally be totally unintentional and be purely...

Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome the opportunity to have this discussion. It is also good to know we will have a further chance to talk about the current Trump slump later today. It is widely known that in the 1940s and 1950s, the cliché was that Ireland's biggest exports were live cattle and people. Many of these people went on to create lives and send money back to Ireland from the...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Water is a fundamental right, which means that irrespective of income or means the water infrastructure should be funded through general taxation. In this context, I fully support and reiterate the calls of colleagues for a referendum on water infrastructure and ownership vested in the people of Ireland. It is a matter on which I have previously tabled motions when I was a councillor....

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: On one level, this is a very straightforward Bill. I will try to stick to the topic, although the Ceann Comhairle might give me some leeway. I have read that this is an updated version of the earlier touted Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024, which was here before I was elected in November. The Bill delivers a statutory provision that sets out that an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 828. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE physiotherapists and social workers based at Clondalkin Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17248/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 829. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists based at Rossecourt Children's Disability, Network Team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17249/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 830. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists based at Palmerstown Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17250/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the Minister of State. Scoil Mhuire is well equipped to provide autism support. For example, two staff members recently completed a master's of education in autism. It is a capable school, which does its best for students of all backgrounds. I am still looking for further clarity, if it pleases the Minister of State, on whether we can say that ten years down the line Wombles...