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Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy O'Rourke for tabling this important and timely motion. The Government's refusal to extend the moratorium on disconnections to households with prepay meters typifies its cavalier approach to this unprecedented crisis. When this issue arose a number of weeks ago, the Government appeared taken aback. The Taoiseach had done an interview at the weekend in which he gave a solemn...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...Bill but it is also important, and we intend to support it. It gives us an opportunity to talk about all the aspects of tourism. Fáilte Ireland recently launched a €600,000 campaign stating, "Winter in Dublin, it's magic". I do not disagree with that in the slightest. I am an extraordinarily proud Dub but we have issues that may impact on the people who come here to visit....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: For over a year, I have been writing to the Business Committee to request statements on the city of Dublin specifically. Tonight, "RTÉ Investigates" will lay bare the reason I have been doing so in a programme on our nation's capital, its main thoroughfare and all the related issues. This Chamber needs to take an interest in the capital city. There are issues there that go across...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown of the number of PhDs who are funded through State or State-funded bodies (details supplied) and an estimate of privately-funded PhDs registered at Irish universities. [51684/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank our contributors today from Justice for Colombia. I will get down to the brass tacks of the issues impacting Colombia. President Petro has made some recent statements in relation to the drugs trade and its impact on Colombia. Can Mr. Dodwell go into some of the international complicity in terms of the drugs trade? When you are in Colombia, you cannot help but notice that many of...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I will pick up where Deputy Cairns left off on the previous occasion. The Bill has defects in respect of the sharing of personal information, especially in the requirement to share third-party information with an employer to seek medical care leave or flexible working arrangements for care purposes. This issue also arose in recent newspaper accounts of IBEC’s submission on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (13 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider putting an ABP submission cost-waiver in place for those in receipt of social welfare payments in order to allow them to participate fully in the planning process, given that the National Transport Authority opted to run the MetroLink railway order and Ballymun CBC application processes at the same time. [51088/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I fully accept the complexity of junior certificate results, particularly following Covid, which destabilised the leaving certificate, the appeals and everything else that came with that. Today I contacted a number of schools in my area and asked if there were any issues I could raise. What came back continually was the junior certificate results. This has implications, for example, for...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: As Deputy Whitmore said, there is some merit in the proposals in the Bill before us. The €1.7 billion investment will do some good but that needs to be put in the context of the level of suffering and need in the country. The failure to target this will mean that people in this country will continue to have to choose between heating and eating. That is something that cannot and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: On three occasions today, the last of which was at 1.41 p.m., I was contacted by people, one of whom asked "Can you help me? I'm in desperate need of help." Does anyone around this Chamber have any doubt about the content of that message? It was the third person today telling me they were about to be made homeless. The children of each of the three families by which I was contacted will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if children and their families in areas in Dublin north city and county are receiving any services at present; and if so, the service providers from which they receive same. [50377/22]

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I will not be that long. I welcome the Minister's contribution and, especially, the transfer of the NSO and the choirs from RTÉ to the NCH. At its best and when done correctly, the NSO is an invaluable reflection of Ireland’s musical and cultural heritage, and there is probably no home more suitable than the NCH, which, when done correctly as it often is, is a champion of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Naval Service (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: That gets to the crux of the matter. The ambition of having 6,000 new recruits in a number of years is welcome, as is the vision the Minister painted of Haulbowline. The report of the Commission on the Defence Forces is comprehensive and has done a great deal of good work but we are at the point now where our Defence Forces are down to bare bones. At 35 years of age, I have any number...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Naval Service (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: The Minister indicated in his response that the reports were not completely accurate and that three apprentices had left as opposed to five. What is clear though is that this year alone 270 members of the Defence Forces have left, and there is a problem with retention. Much of that comes down to pay and conditions. I believe the Minister and the State are committed to changing that. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: The greatest defence our peacekeepers have when they are overseas is that we have a reputation for humanitarian intervention. Our peacekeepers put themselves in harm's way to avoid conflict. We have an extraordinary tradition on that. Many of our peacekeepers have lost their lives in the name of peace. I fully agree that when our peacekeepers are overseas, they should be equipped with the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his attendance at a recent European Union summit on military support for Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49072/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I will begin by disagreeing with Deputy Griffin. I do not believe we have any traditions of militarisation in this country, certainly in an overseas capacity and I do not believe that we want any. I think the Irish people's compassion, commitment and support for Ukraine and the people of Ukraine following the illegal and horrendous invasion by the Russian state is very clear. That is felt...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I agree with all the sentiments expressed in the Minister's statement but I would go further. I accept the fact that he met with the Iranian foreign minister in New York but we also have an ambassador here from the Islamic Republic of Iran. He needs to be summoned and the Minister needs to tell him that the actions we see in Iran at the minute with the murder of Ms Mahsa Amini, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for the comprehensive response to the incredibly comprehensive questions he was asked, which follows on from a comprehensive report from the commission. Within that, we get the scale of the challenges that face the Minister and the Department. However, behind all of that, we still have 270 personnel who have left the Defence Forces this year. This time last year, this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Gary Gannon: Poverty is corrosive to the human condition. At its very essence, it is about the basic provisions a person is asked to go without. Some 62,000 children in this country are living in consistent poverty. They go to bed hungry and there is no capacity to buy extra clothes, such as a warm coat for the winter, and there is absolutely no opportunity for them and their families to have a day...