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An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Aois Vótála a Laghdú go Sé Bliana Déag), 2025: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thought I was sharing time with Deputy Lawless. If he comes in, I will try to finish up quickly. Otherwise, I would like the opportunity to spend some time on this very important issue. I thank Deputy Farrelly for tabling the Bill, which is hugely important. We have had others in the past push towards it. Maybe society has changed and maybe we are getting to the point where we are...

Science Week: Statements (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: It is fair to say that over the last decade in particular, Ireland has made some commendable efforts to foster a culture of scientific creativity and collaboration within the academic institutions and industry, and also in terms of policy development. You have to give credit where it is due. Obviously, it could be said that Science Week lies at the heart of this movement because it is a...

Cost of Motoring: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate, however briefly. I agree with colleagues that the motor insurance rip-off has to end. I was calling for action on this issue 25 years ago and it is still going on. We have to increase competition. That is something we can do from an EU perspective. We also need measures to encourage better behaviour because, whether we like it or...

Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We have had several discussions on this and related legislation associated with the budget. In some ways, we have tended to go around in circles. We are repeating the same things time and again because there have been no efforts to make any efforts to do what Opposition Deputies have suggested. On the one hand, I am not surprised but, at the same time, I am disappointed. I will look at...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Was Deputy Ó Snodaigh finished?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Tá tú críochnaithe anois ar aon nós.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Faoi láthair.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Beidh níos mó níos déanaí. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I have some concerns about section 3. It goes back to the fact that the summer recess was supposed to create the opportunity to have discussions with bodies like RAAP and come up with some sort of workable arrangement. I still do not get the legal argument about why it would go to the Circuit Court and...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: It is a hard one. Reciprocal.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: While I take on board what the Minister of State is saying about the impact of the amendment, with regard to the spirit of it, we are now almost at the end of the Danish Presidency. Perhaps the Danes have already been examining this. I do not know. Obviously, after Cyprus, we will be back in the driving seat. Could the Minister of State possibly send a memo to the Taoiseach suggesting...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I noted the Tánaiste's earlier comments about a national migration strategy due in 2026. I presume this is the national asylum and migration management strategy that relates to the EU asylum and migration pact in which we are currently participating. In that context, given that we are a representative democracy and we have occasional debates on this issue, in order to stop the...

International Protection Processing and Enforcement: Statements (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I cannot say much in two minutes other than to point out that we need a much wider debate on this issue. Without proper, respectful discourse, a vacuum is created and that vacuum is taken over by radical groups that foment hatred and spew disinformation. That leads to there being open season to verbally abuse and possibly physically abuse anyone on a bus with darker skin. We have seen that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Okay, which makes it a little more difficult, as Mr. McHugh said before. I want to move on to the online sector. The commission has issued press statements before warning people about fake websites that say "Shop Cork", "Shop Ireland", etc., and they are totally fake. On the likes of Facebook, there are ads that tell people to do tai chi and they will be ripped in six weeks. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I mean these sponsored ads on Facebook that are prevalent. Meta seems to be making a huge income out of this and getting away with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: That is a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: In five years' time we could have a different scenario.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Moving on to housing, sometimes people are bidding for unsuitable properties due to unclear or exaggerated advertisements, which is something the commission has alluded to before. Delays in conveyancing were mentioned and to which others referred to. One thing that caught my eye was that an estate agent, if a question is asked by a potential purchaser, should publish that question or answer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: In 2018.