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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.

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

Paul Gogarty: The 2018 report was the waste management report. This is my final question for now. The commission talked about getting a regulator in. Do the witnesses think it is feasible, on an estate-by-estate basis, for a company to tender to all the people living in the housing estate for the service every year, or is that too much regulation? How soon does the commission think it could have a...

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

Paul Gogarty: Thanks. I wish to follow on from the waste management side of things on the recommendations the CCPC made in 2018, a long time ago. What in Mr. McHugh's view are the barriers? Is it due to the Government's failure to enact the legislation? Are there civil servants saying this is not workable? What exactly has caused the inertia given that it makes a lot of sense to bring in the regulator...

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

Paul Gogarty: I have one other slightly new question. It has been raised before but I have not seen it come from the CCPC very recently. When a phone company or whatever starts to go onto a standard electricity tariff after 12 months, it is being penalised for being a loyal customer. We had a Private Members' Bill, the Consumer Protection (Loyalty Penalty and Customer Complaints) Bill 2021, that did not...

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

Paul Gogarty: I hope the CCPC will do another bit of work because a prod is needed, to be quite honest. I thank Mr. McHugh for his time.

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

Paul Gogarty: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Some interesting questions were asked. I would like to follow up on some of the ones raised and ask a few new ones. Since 2023, the commission can now impose administrative fines of up to €10 million or 10% of the company's worldwide turnover. What proportion of companies do not have to go through the courts process? It has been...

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

Paul Gogarty: Moving from the general to the very specific, could Mr. McHugh talk briefly about influencers? I notice the commission has issued a number of compliance notices to influencers. They are becoming more and more influential, for want of a better term. Often, what they are selling is absolute drivel and they are making a few quid out of it. In terms of influencers, even the smaller fines...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I was interested to hear the reply to the earlier question. From a European Union member state perspective, we are doing quite well in making progress towards the 2030 agenda. However, there is a bit of a dichotomy in our adherence to our own standards, particularly in the environmental sector. How can we be praising ourselves for reaching out globally and helping other countries to reach...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Yes.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: With an eye to our looming EU Presidency, I wish to see whether we can show leadership in certain areas of development support. I am thinking of two things. The first is the issue of arms getting to combat zones in Sudan. While I know there is an EU-wide ban, we have seen a situation reported fairly recently where Bulgarian mortars got into Sudan, although not directly. There have been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 59. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures adopted by Ireland to transpose Article 16(5) of the RED III Directive, which requires that applicants and the public have easy access to simple procedures for the settlement of disputes concerning the permit-granting procedure and the issuance of permits to build and operate renewable energy plants; and if...

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Hear, hear.

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: This legislation is welcome, if modest. As others have mentioned, it is a response to disruption caused by Storm Éowyn. It will allow for the creation and maintenance of forestry corridors and vegetation management, subject hopefully to environmental obligations under the Habitats and Birds Directives. I have no problem with the legal mechanism to make an additional €1.5...