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Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Relating to the health diversion programme that is about to be announced by the Minister's Department and the Department of Health, when a person is found in possession of drugs, he or she is going to be diverted to a health facility as opposed to being sent to court. That is brilliant. It will be at the discretion of the individual garda who encounters that person. What level of training...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: I fully agree with the Minister on this. I am referring not only to the training that takes place in Templemore, but also to continuing professional development training. This will be a stark change in practice for many gardaí. It used to be the case that people found with drugs were taken to a police station but now they will be rediverted to a health facility. This requires...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: We have spoken about the fact that at present gun crime is almost non-existent in the State. This is very welcome and it is to the great credit of the gardaí who put themselves in harm's way during the feud. This does not mean that violence has gone away. The violence we see in our communities at present, and the drug-related intimidation, is horrific. We are speaking about people...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: It is the DRIVE programme and I think it will be very good.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Currently, there are 5,415 people in our system. Some 400 of those are sleeping on mattresses. The Minister is talking about bringing 940 places back into our prison system. If he achieves that aim, it effectively means that, at that point, our prisons are operating at just about 98% capacity. It does not sound very ambitious.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Do not get me wrong; I do not think it is working. Even if the Minister gets Thornton Hall and brings in the other 1,500 places, our recidivism rate in this country will be 62.4%. That means that 62.4% of people who come out of prison will reoffend within three years. Senator Lynn Ruane a couple weeks ago raised the point that if we had a hospital where nearly seven out of ten people who...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: We need better spaces. The punishment for a person who commits a crime is the loss of liberty. What is happening after that point seems to be a compounding of punishment for a person. Not everyone is the same, but many people who go in there for a particular reason – the Minister just outlined drugs and drug-related crime – are dealing with their own addictions, and there...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: It is a lottery.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Is my time up?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: I have one more question. On the recent deportations, does the Minister think he could have done that better? There was no human rights observer on the flight to Nigeria. There are 197 children currently standing with deportation orders hanging over them. I am not suggesting that anyone who comes in here with children can stay if they do not meet the criteria. However, the Minister...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: I said that the taking away of the oral appeal was cruel.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: At that point, it was not clear what the Minister was making it out to be. Quickening the process without the giving the resourcing leaves people in more difficult situations. I support the quickening up of the process absolutely. However, there were factors in it that were not considered at the time.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Inquiries (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine the case of a person (details supplied) requiring a temporary travel document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33623/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 679. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of a situation concerning an international protection applicant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (19 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: 351. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people referred to the probation service for a community service report who were found by that report to be unsuitable for community service and were subsequently not sentenced to an immediate term of imprisonment, in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [33423/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: It is sometimes difficult not to interrupt the Taoiseach when he is purposely distorting-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: It is sometimes difficult not to interrupt when the Taoiseach is purposely distorting what exactly it is that he is trying to say. Politics is about choices. He knows this. We prisons that are overcrowded to the point where multiple sources, including those in the area of security and civil servants, have confirmed that a number of prisoners, including those suspected to be members of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: We have a situation that is detrimental to the human condition. For the purposes of the Government's performative cruelty, we are now putting people who are awaiting deportation flights into prison. They are in every prison, including Mountjoy and Dóchas. People are being taken out of IPAS centres and brought to prison. All the while, the Government is releasing drug dealers back...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Gary Gannon: Sorry?