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Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Without carers, especially family carers, the burden on the State would be far greater. Over the years we have heard stories of people being placed inappropriately in geriatric wards or people who need more intensive care being sent home early because of insufficient spaces. Carers play a valuable role and unless we totally change our definition of what constitutes society in Ireland, it...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Go raibh maith agat agus comhghairdeas leat a Chathaoirligh ar do phost nua. Tá suil agam go mbeimid ag obair go dian le chéile ar feadh ceithre nó cúig bliana. I apologise at the outset as I will be leaving shortly before returning. With the hours of this committee, that is going to happen often. We will try to keep the cohesion of the group going as much as possible,...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Comhghairdeas, a Chathaoirligh, as do phost nua. This is my first EU committee. I was on the education committee back in the day. Apologies for having to leave occasionally, like everyone else, for different events, votes, contributions, etc., and in advance, today, I have to head off at around 4 p.m. This is a tumultuous time, not just in terms of the trade issues with the US but also...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Services for people with disabilities are in disarray. There is an ongoing battle for disability services to be provided where needs have been assessed. The National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers, which represents a mixture of voluntary public services organisations and voluntary grant-aided bodies, has gone on record recently to state their ability to deliver existing services...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Like others, I raised this matter back in February. There has been very little, if any, progress since that time. What is happening is quite frustrating for TDs constituents. This is not really a local issue, although I do want to raise a local aspect in a moment. There has been no real progress since February. I mentioned at the time the need to implement the service level agreement...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: The Institute for Management Development’s world competitiveness yearbook 2024 ranks Ireland 38th out of 67 countries in basic infrastructure. To take water as an example, Dublin City Council wants to build 6,000 homes in Ballyboggan but this is under threat due to a lack of water and sewerage infrastructure. The greater Dublin drainage project needs to be progressed. Nationally, it...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Ireland is 19th on the global innovation index but we are behind similar-sized countries such as Estonia, Denmark and Finland, which is in seventh place. I asked previously what is Ireland's equivalent to Nokia. In terms of research and development, what are we doing that is Irish born and that is creating jobs on the basis of Irish initiatives rather than international companies coming...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: In the minute I have it will be very hard to say much.

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I agree with a lot of what the Social Democrats are trying to do. We do need to recognise the diversity we have and possibly take religion out of schools. It is an issue for parents to decide. Religious instruction being done outside school time makes a lot of sense. What we have in Ireland, however, is an Irish solution to an...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: As the Minister said at the outset, this is just repeat legislation that is renewed every six months. As others have said, primary legislation could have been enacted some time ago but I am glad the Minister is living up to his reputation as being a hands-on Minister so far and is moving on this. It is something that most people would very much welcome but I always include the caveat that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I was at a presentation by Haven Horizons yesterday in the audiovisual room, as were others. This domestic, sexual and gender-based violence prevention centre does wonderful work - without proper State funding, I might add, something that needs to be looked at. At the discussion afterwards, an issue I was mulling over came up, and that was the contribution that social media make to such...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: In early 2023, the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, said that parents know best when it comes to banning youngsters from social media or imposing phone restrictions. That was in response to touted legislation in the UK that was less stringent than the Australian model being touted. However, teachers, who see the impact first hand in the classrooms, will beg to differ. The Tánaiste, the...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I have mentioned this on numerous occasions but I am going to mention it again. I go back to the HighScope Perry Preschool study in the US which found that for every $1 invested in quality early education in the childcare sector and in primary school there was a $7 return. In euro terms, it has the same positive impact on children's outcomes and development. It is extremely important but...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I am in two minds as I contribute to this debate. On the one hand, as my colleague said, we are here to celebrate what Europe is supposed to stand for. This year is the 75th anniversary of the Schuman declaration, which laid the foundation for European integration. From the early days of the European Coal and Steel Community, there were efforts to integrate everything to the point where it...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We have a moral obligation to put it up to our partners to be stronger on this issue. I have not heard that coming from the Council of Ministers.

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Deputy Paul Lawless, who was due to speak, gave me a few extra minutes.

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Okay. We need to do better and we need to speak more loudly.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Some time back, the Garda vetting review group was tasked with examining the current system to see what improvements, if any, could be made, while ensuring continued appropriate and robust checks on people taking on positions of trust working with children and vulnerable persons. While I would be interested in hearing the timeframe for the report, if officials have it to hand, the main thing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: The total Israeli blockade on humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip has now passed 60 days, in what the United Nations human rights chief, Volker Türk, has described as a "new unseen level" of humanitarian crisis. A recent report by Amnesty International stated that Israel was carrying out livestreamed genocide in Gaza, routinely targeting civilians and engaging in torture and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (1 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the planned rollout to the nearest month of reduced fares for five to eight year olds as promised in the Programme for Government, following the bedding-in period to ensure this can be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21976/25]