Results 101-120 of 137 for long speaker:Gary Gannon

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...places on the planet. One cannot help but imagine the carnage that rained down on the people of Gaza from the sky in the form of million-pound missiles. Images of the past two weeks will live long in all of our memories. We saw buildings being reduced to rubble from which bodies were pulled. We tried to make sense of the death toll and the number of children being killed, and entire...

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...because everyone was learning from home. Now, however, their peers are back in the classroom and their own continued absence is detrimental to them. We should have catered for those students long ago. Despite protestations from their family members, such as Jan and Michael Rynne, whose case has been highlighted in this Chamber and in the media, no action was taken. Instead, the...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...2020, which was nearly 100 days into the strike, most of us here spoke on this same issue, thanks to a motion introduced by Deputies Barry, Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny. Even then, 100 days was too long for those workers to be standing on a picket line. I remember that 100 days was a symbolic date at the time. Women, men and younger workers from Debenhams had been picketing for 100 days....

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...me and for all of us here who value our peace on this island, was the support and solidarity that was given to the Irish people throughout the lead up to the Good Friday Agreement. That will live long in memory. While that peace is still very much a process, the somewhat stability we have on this island is a recognition of that contribution. In terms of the past 24 months of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...legislation through because it seems like a popular move. It is hypocrisy on the highest scale. It is hypocrisy to say, even now that we all see the detrimental effect REITs are having on the housing market, that those REITs do not perhaps belong in suburbia but they might belong in our city centres. There is arrogance in walking out of this building, seeing the former communities where...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...compiled and maintained in the Department of Health containing sensitive, personal and private information on children with autism and their families. People with autism and their families suffered long before the pandemic and have always had to fight for basic rights and entitlements. The relationship with the State has been unnecessarily fraught and adversarial. The country is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Services Provision (22 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...who could simply open the door and allow people in. This is a matter of public health and comfort. If we are innovative and pragmatic in our solutions and if we get this right, it will work in the long term not just for my city, which I love, but every city, town and village or every park and beach in the country. The pandemic has allowed us the opportunity to get away from trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (22 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: 69. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Air Corps pilot service commitment scheme will be retained in the long-term following its success and learnings gained from previous schemes; if he will extend this scheme further to the air crew and technical personnel to ensure that these vital services continue to operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21072/21]

Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...and was around the table over the course of weeks and months and able to identify the problem and set a pathway by which we can deliver a solution. There has been some research into children's experience of traumatic events such as following natural disasters and it indicates long-lasting effects on psychological well-being. The effects are often greater for those who are most vulnerable....

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...their working lives in caring roles financial security in their old age; and — whatever the cost of the benefit to the Exchequer, it could never equal the economic and social benefit to the State from the work of long-term carers;" and (b) To insert the following after "timeframe to ensure the implementation of all actions": "— implement a pension solution for carers that...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...just for shopping centres, shops and all of those other things in which we have invested over recent years when we gave ourselves over to consumerism and capitalism. That view was already in decline. Long before Covid emerged, the city centre was losing commercial footfall to shopping centres along the M50. People were also already starting to shop online. This means that, if we want...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (24 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...secondary applicants if it is not possible to produce an average length of time for the allowance; if there could be a mechanism to assess a person receiving the carer’s allowance to see if they are long-term recipients in order to access the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Mar 2021)

Gary Gannon: 1605. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of providing life-long medical cards for all survivors of childhood or adolescent cancers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14827/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...drugs strategy will provide for a clear and urgent response to drug related intimidation, debt and violence; and if the revised strategy will include a strong commitment to putting in place the long-term and sustainable economic initiatives that are required to address the issue. [10580/21]

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: When we are given long presentations, such as those we have heard this morning, I am often fascinated by what is missed and what is not said. I am quite surprised that the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, did not refer to drug-related debt or intimidation, which are endemic not just in my community in Dublin Central but in communities all over Dublin and - I imagine - all over Ireland. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...about the dissolution and highlighted the need to retain a channel for communications and engagement with Government should a second wave emerge. This has not happened. I argue that for as long as the virus is with us we need to have this group active and reinstated and perhaps give it a further function afterwards to assist in dealing with the trauma caused by the virus to vulnerable...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...otherwise and I believe we need to confront that. To me, those in the SNA community are the absolute champions of our education sector. They are, and have continuously, been undervalued for so long. The starting salary for an SNA is just over €24,000. They provide close care to those with special education needs and do it as a vocation. They are the first port of call in the...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...distributed and shared online earlier in November of this year. Over many years, there has been no legislative protection offered to victims of this crime or punishment to the perpetrators. It is long past time that that ceased. I recognise that the Bill has been strengthened on Committee Stage in that it now includes the Domestic Violence Act 2018 among the Acts referred to and has...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...were essential to the spirit of societal togetherness that embodied the early stages of the pandemic. It is often said that crises enable us to focus on what is truly important. Although it is not long ago, it seems like an entirely different world when Ministers of the political centre-right would stand on ceremony and herald an Ireland of almost full employment without in any way...

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...destroyed as a consequence. Many Government Deputies have previously described the greyhound industry as abhorrent. It does not become any less abhorrent because someone is sitting at Cabinet. This is an industry that has long since passed its sell-by date. It does not reflect who we are as a Republic. It is corrosive not only to the animals which are suffering as a consequence of...