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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Programme for Government (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 243. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the decision to abandon the commitment in the Programme for Government to conduct a pilot on universal basic income in the lifetime of the Government (details supplied); if it has been decided to carry out microsimulations of UBI, as recommended by the Low Pay Commission and ESRI; if so, what are the parameters of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Scholarships (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if all scholarships under the DEIS Gaeltachta have been allocated for 2023; and if she will provide a breakdown of all scholarships allocations by school and county, in tabular form. [19427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of one-parent family payment; the total number of people in receipt of jobseeker’s transitional payment; and the number of recipients of each payment who are self-employed, in tabular form. [19423/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the ending of means testing of child maintenance for lone parents accessing social welfare payments will come into effect. [19424/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of working family payment; the estimated cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to recipients of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (25 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: 376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of one-parent families that availed of parent's benefit and leave in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19426/23]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Step three is to make it more difficulty for organised criminal actors to pursue power and profit. We do this by targeting problem-orientated policing and visible community policing around the clock. We need to separate the functions of the police so that personnel who are expected to engage and build relationships in those communities are not the same people we ask to start going in and...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Sorry, will my time be respected here? I am involved as well.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Not really understanding what to expect from the contributions today, when this was first presented to us, it came under the banner of statements on gangland crime. That was changed over the course of a week, I am grateful, because I do not recognise where gangland is. Given some of the comments coming from the other side of the Chamber-----

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: -----for some, this is not actually about the communities who are impacted, devastated and exploited by the issue of organised criminality. It seems to be an opportunity to just take shots and further relegate this Chamber to some form of Westminsterisation. I will not stand for it. This is an important topic that impacts the community I represent and we will have our time to talk about...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: For example, the Deputy referenced the example of New York and the mayor there who had a zero-tolerance approach. The people of New York must be dismayed to hear the him then say that the problem has somehow been eradicated.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Deputy then went on to say that we have a border and through some form of intervention of that, we should be able to stop drugs coming in.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Through the Chair, can the Deputy cite one prison, for example-----

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I will rephrase.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: To highlight an example, we cannot keep drugs out of a single prison not only in Ireland, but in Europe or the US. People who believe, as what we have heard from the Deputies to my right, that is possible and that perpetuates the problem.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Not everything else has been tried. We have had a form of war on drugs for night on 50 years in this country. Deputy Durkan referenced the great Tony Gregory, who did stellar and immensely courageous work in this Chamber in bringing names to those people who flooded the communities upwards of 40 years ago. That should always be remembered. It is, however, four decades later and the...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Portuguese model does work.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: I would also offer another example for the Deputy maybe to investigate, which is the Icelandic model. The Icelandic model of intervention in organised crime, once again, is about early intervention. It gives, by right, every young person in that country access to culture and drama because a gateway to engaging in criminality and that form of desperation is poverty and a lack of opportunity....

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: No, no, no.