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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Okay. That is not done. I will move on. The Minister mentioned to Deputy Kelly earlier that there were 9,494 children in IPAS accommodation and he talked about an amnesty. How many of those children are awaiting deportations? I will be quick on this but I know there were 197 as of May of this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: There were 197 children, I believe, as of May this year who were awaiting deportation. What is the average length of time they have spent in the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: It would be great if we could get the average length of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Excellent. What protocols have been put in place with the Garda to monitor violent or intimidating far right protests at deportation centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Do we have the number for how many of them have been in the country for longer than two years?

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I acknowledge the speakers who brought the motion to the Dáil but I will not be supporting it. I will not say it contains no good ideas but it loses all reason where it refers to the temporary removal of personal items such as PlayStations, Xboxes and smartphones. Are we serious here? Am I right to believe the Government is not opposing a motion that calls for someone to go into...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I stand to speak on the statements on migration. There are many wonderful aspects to it. I would like to talk about the experience and enhancement of communities the length and breadth of the country, but there is also something we just cannot step away from at the moment. Things feel different. It feels like the racism has increased and like the fear in the communities who contact my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of a recent media report regarding An Garda Síochána’s Security and Intelligence Section payment to a company (details supplied), if he will clarify the nature of the technology, software or services that were purchased; if this procurement included spyware; the legal basis upon which An Garda...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for taking this issue tonight. A couple of week ago, I visited the neonatal unit of the Rotunda Hospital, which is just off Parnell Street in my own constituency of Dublin 1. While there, I met the clinicians there who are being asked to work in conditions that are incredibly unsuited to the importance of the work and to the vulnerability of the babies who...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Yes, that is completely as I expected. I understand and accept completely that as legislators, we do not, nor should we, have a role over planning but we do have leadership roles. We do have voice. We are elected to represent the people of our constituencies and to have a say about what is common sense, what is basic humanity and what is just nonsensical. I found it unfathomable when I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 869. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of committals to prison in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by sentence length; and the number of individuals committed to prison in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025 who have served or are serving their first custodial sentence in Ireland. [48160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 870. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of people remanded to custody in 2024 and to date in 2025. [48161/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 871. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people remanded to custody who did not receive a sentence of imprisonment, either through no conviction or through receiving a sentence less than imprisonment in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 872. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people remanded to custody and sentenced to prison, and who were released immediately due to having already served their sentence on remand in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48163/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances where a prisoner held solely on remand shared a cell with a convicted prisoner in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2025 by prison, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48164/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average amount of time that prisoners, not including those on restricted regimes, could spend outside of their cells each day, by prison, by quarter in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Alcohol Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 689. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the legal metrology (intoxicating liquor) regulations that restrict licensed premises to serving draught beer and cider only in imperial pint (568ml) and half-pint (284ml); if he will consider amending the regulations to allow CE-marked metric quantities such as 150ml, 300ml, and 400ml in line with EU practice;...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Alcohol Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 690. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the current prohibition on serving draught beer and cider in smaller metric volumes is solely a matter of domestic law enforced by the NSAI; the steps he will take to bring the State's practice into line with EU Directive 80/181/EEC on metrication and Directive 2009/34/EC on measuring instruments; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Alcohol Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 691. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged with small breweries and independent hospitality businesses regarding the impact of restrictions on draught serving measures; if he will consider their requests for greater flexibility in the interest of both fairness and responsible alcohol service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45801/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (8 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 2139. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure the sustainability of trauma informed, peer led family addiction support services such as FASN in the North East; and if core funding or targeted investment will be provided to organisations like FASN that deliver a vital service that not only reduces the pressure on statutory services, but improves the lives of families...