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- Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. In some ways, there will be a certain amount of repetition because we have all been asked by the Movember movement to reference its report titled, "The Real Face of Men's Health", and its key findings and recommendations. If there is repetition, it is no harm because it is sending a message. I will repeat that men are dying...
- Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I welcome this debate on expanding the geographical area covered by the presidential election and amending the requirements to run for President to make it easier to do so. To start with the issue of the diaspora, we know the constitutional convention was not limited to the Northern Irish state but also dealt with the diaspora around the world. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I could have listened to that for another couple of hours if we had time. I will stick to the retail angle first. I will play devil's advocate. On the comment about how the minimum wage is calculated and how it has a knock-on effect on the living wage, the reality is that in Dublin, for example, all the software companies are coming in with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: And they can avail of the working family benefit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I asked whether it should be regionalised, or how it could be regionalised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: Perhaps provision could be made for an allowance without having to change the minimum wage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I will briefly interject. A teacher in Donegal or Mayo has a much better quality of life than a teacher in Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: Ms McCabe is basically saying that the people on the minimum wage are not those who have mortgages or are looking for affordable housing mortgages. They are mainly students.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I will follow up on that calculation on the living wage. Given that it is coming from Europe, has Mr. Jennings done any calculations as to whether it is binding on the State or whether we have some leeway to ignore it? I am speaking from a position of ignorance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: So, we basically do have that discretion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I raised the issue before about stupid items in terms of insurance costs. Can I have some opinions on that from Mr. Jennings or Mr. Stanley, but also from Retail Excellence Ireland, in terms of the other side of it? I mentioned this during a debate on a motion on antisocial behaviour and the consequences of it, and we had presentations earlier form retailers talking about defamation claims...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: The costs are massive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: Briefly, anecdotally, how many of those would be people basically scamming the system? They were shoplifting before but they are trying to catch you out for a false accusation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I was just indicating that I will have to go to speak in the Chamber shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: Maybe teachers in Dublin need to be paid more. Equally, there may need to be a higher minimum wage rate in Dublin. Can you get away with having a lower wage rate in the rest of the country? That is the question that arises from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: It is not a directive.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (21 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I thank the Minister of State. In relation to the situation at Citywest, I thank him for his comments. I want to add that residents who may have been in fear because of some incidents of antisocial behaviour in the community by a very small minority of residents at the IPAS centre are now in fear of rioters. Property was damaged tonight. Implements were taken out of people's gardens and...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (21 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: I have tabled this question as I have long been an advocate of multiuse school buildings. I want to get an update from the Minister on a response I received from the Department on how to repurpose the design of buildings so they can be used in a safe way so we can educate schoolchildren and have a creche on one side, a meeting room for community events later and enough space for full-sized...
- Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)
Paul Gogarty: Ar aon nós-----