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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Could my Fianna Fáil colleagues please get in touch with the Leader of the House to ask her to come to the House and make a decision? Can she just make the decision as to whether we do this or not?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: The Acting Leader is leaving. The Acting Leader is out the door.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Can I propose a suspension until-----

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Can I propose a suspension of the House until we find out who the Acting Leader is or until the Leader returns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Absolutely. I am not a member of this committee. I thank the Chair for allowing me to come in. When I heard Mr. Fee was here, I decided I would have to come in and ask a few questions. Mr. Fee and I have chatted a lot about retail in Dundalk in recent years. I had a conversation with another shopkeeper about some amazing technology that I did not know existed. It is the concept of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: I was in that shop a couple of weeks ago and they showed me how it works. I thought this could go a long way. However, margins are tight enough, as they are in every sector, and in retail you are trying to make as much potential profit on everything you sell. Even though something like that will save money by reducing the potential amount of theft, it will still be quite a burden for retail...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: People you see every day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Looking the court pages in the The Argusany day of the week, all the retail theft crime is there. There are people with a litany of charges against them and who have huge rap sheets. When you see that type of stuff happening and it is there every week, what will stop someone if there is no deterrent? I thank the Chair for letting me in. I used to work for the late Senator Paul Coghlan,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: I wish to start by paying tribute to my colleague Senator Seery Kearney. The work she has done in committee, the House, the Fine Gael Party and with other political parties has been outstanding. Today is a very proud day not just for Mary, her husband Dave and their daughter Scarlett, but for all of the families whose lives have been demonstrably improved because of Mary and her actions in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: I was going to hold my comments about what has happened in the last week until tomorrow night's debate but I will follow on from the points made by Senators Fitzpatrick and Ruane, both of whose views I respect immensely. I am not from the north inner city. I have family connections there and know it well to a certain extent, but I am conscious that I am speaking about it from a completely...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: I accept where we are in the legal process and I take the Leas-Chathaoirleach's guidance on that. The point that I am trying to make is that this was not just one community going out looting and causing problems and hassle. It was people who came to an area of violence that had kicked off. They were people from different communities, backgrounds and socioeconomic backgrounds who came to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: Over the past two weeks, on different occasions I have raised the issue of all the flooding that happened in north Louth and the Cooley Peninsula. Last night, Louth County Council had its annual budget meeting. It was told that the council has applied for €2 million from the Government to deal with many of the issues that have incurred in respect of roads, infrastructure and stuff...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: I thank the Chair for welcoming my guests from County Louth. It is fortuitous that I happen to be speaking in the Seanad at the same time that they are here, and there are three or four tours coming after them as well, given we have such a good group up. I have spoken to quite a number of retailers and shopkeepers, not just in my home town of Dundalk but throughout County Louth. Some of...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: I will be brief and follow on from Senator Garvey. This is a straightforward Bill. It is part of our commitment, following on from the budget last year and into the budget this year, to mitigate and to try to help to insulate people against the cost-of-living crisis. This time around we are making it as simple and efficient as possible. That is why it is being deducted at source, which we...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: Now.

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: Now.

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: Now.

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Motion for Earlier Signature (8 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: I move: That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: Naturally enough, I will speak of the tough time people in north Louth, on the Cooley Peninsula and in certain parts of Dundalk had last week. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, and the Minister for Community and Rural Development, Deputy Humphreys. Both were on the phone to me straight away. The Minister promised that the humanitarian assistance scheme would be opened...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

John McGahon: In Dundalk the flooding was not as severe as elsewhere. However, if one went north of the Ballymac roundabout last week, it was like a bomb had hit the Cooley Peninsula, it was that terrible compared to other parts of County Louth. However, in parts of Dundalk like Cluan Enda and Bay Estate in particular, there was also bad flooding because there is a problem with the drainage system. This...