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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Apologies, Chairman. I am not a member of this committee; I am a visitor-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: At present, although I would imagine this will become more relevant if the pact does come in towards 2026, what legal powers does the Garda have in terms of enforcement at the shared border between North and South? I am concerned about profiling and requests to produce passports. What are the legal powers at present and does the Department envision a scenario whereby legislation will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will make a brief comment in the time I have left. Importantly, we have a shared border, which is different from any other country that joins the pact. The lacuna within those legalities has not been addressed satisfactorily, so I would like that information.

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: We welcome the principles behind the Bill and we fully support it through its passage. I will not use the full 20 minutes. In welcoming the Bill, we acknowledge that it provides for the necessary advancements in the modernisation of how we deal with the beginning and the end of lives, times that are full of ecstasy and grief, in turn. Aside from the obvious fact that the process of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to seek more sustained, long-term solutions to support families experiencing food poverty during school holidays, given the Children’s Rights Alliance food provision scheme received applications totalling over €350,000 - six times its capacity, in the run up to the Christmas holidays in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the green paper on disability reform will impact students in higher education receiving disability payments. [9087/24]

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion, which is incredibly important and timely. The Social Democrats fully support it. The motion recognises carers' invaluable contribution to society and highlights their mistreatment by the State, which is something that I hope we can work collectively, across the Chamber, to rectify. I echo the call to fully abolish the carer's allowance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister. More than 160 human rights organisations across Europe, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have raised concerns about the content of the pact. Does that level of opposition to the pact among human rights groups give the Minister any cause for concern?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: The Minister mentioned the 80% of people who come from North to South without documentation. The border procedure we are opting into must take place at designated locations near the border or in another area designated by the member state. Where does the Minister envisage we have this border procedure? Will it be on the road to Belfast?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Given that challenge, does the Minister envisage having border procedures between the North and South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: In a scenario where a person comes here without documentation from the North, what happens to that person? The Minister mentioned an ongoing court case. Does the 12-week rule still apply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: We are in a scenario where the UK is not part of this pact, for obvious reasons. To where would such a person be returned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Can the Minister outline what that legislation might entail?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: The country we return them to may send them to Rwanda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: This is our policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I refer to circumstances where some of the people who are forced through the border procedure will not have identity documents such as, for example, a person coming here from Somalia. The Taliban only recently started reissuing documents. We understand why this happens. Is the Minister confident that we will be able to stick to the timeline of 12 weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Applicants already under the border procedure are not authorised to enter the territory of the member state. We will have a legal fiction of international applicants who are in the country but who are not deemed to be in our territory. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Can the Minister outline the reasons for that? Is it to ensure they do not have the same level of legal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: We will have a scenario in which people will be in the country but will be deemed not to be in our territory under this procedure. Given this kind of Schrödinger's asylum process that we will have, whereby people are here but are not here, can the Minister outline the justification for that? It is to ensure that they do not have the same legal recourse?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Will certain families with children fall under this border procedure? Ireland will, in effect, hold children in detention centres with fewer rights as part of the deal. Can the children go to school?