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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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the precise date when the owners of units 64 and 65 on the Palmerstown/SDCC side of Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate were notified that the buildings were ‘no longer under consideration’ as an international protection centre as per a circular sent out to elected representatives recently; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offers to accommodate people seeking international protection that have been made by property owners in the Dublin mid-west constituency, or directly sought by his Department; the general locations of such offers; the number of letters of approval that have been issued since 2024; the number that are under...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to review the process whereby international protection centres are located in communities, in terms of being more proactive in consulting with said communities and providing concrete guarantees as to additional medical and other support resources, education and training and general recreational amenities;...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I am generally supportive of this Bill and, unlike some of my colleagues, I see the rationale in not having juries for certain types of defamation cases. However, I have a query about the corporate entity issue, which is a follow up on what other Deputies said. Let us say there is a chain of hardware stores - let us call them Fianna Fáil hardware - and it is owned by Joe Bloggs. Let...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: It looks fantastic. It is a great plan with great graphics. If one reads it line by line and bit by bit, it has so much to offer but we all know it is aspirational without the investment. I give the example of water infrastructure. We need massive investment in water infrastructure to facilitate housing. The plan references offshore energy potential. We need massive investment in our...

EU Regulations: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I am grateful for a few minutes to speak on this very technical but necessary rubber-stamping of amendments to Regulation (EU) 2015/848 to modify its Annexes A and B, following the changes in seven EU member states, as the Minister outlined. It will ensure that the regulation continues to facilitate effective civil and judicial co-operation at EU level. The Minister mentioned that we...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Will the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach remind me how long I have? Is it one minute and 30 seconds?

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: That is short enough, but it is sufficient to say that I support the motion. I have been around as an elected representative for a long time and was involved with the education committee when the original Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act was enacted. As others have said, it is shocking that so many aspects of that legislation still have not been enacted. I was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as ucht a fhreagra. The reply mentions that there could be up to five minutes' delay. The whole selling point for Adamstown and Kishoge was that we have four tracks. Some of it was part of the strategic development zone scheme, as was the Phoenix Park tunnel interconnection. To put this in context, the people currently living in Adamstown and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Maidin mhaith, a Aire Stáit. Is lá álainn é ag deireadh mhí Aibreáin. Ceapaim gur lá iontach é le dul ar thuras traenach. Is é sin an t-ábhar I am talking about today. It is a great day for a train journey but if one lives in the newer areas in my constituency, such as Adamstown, and if one is an IT professional who needs to go to the...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank colleagues for tabling the motion. This is an important issue. It was good to have a wider contextual debate on what went on in CHI earlier. To recap, I take on board what the Minister said during her contribution. I did not get a chance to come back to it during that debate but I will do so now. We need accountable and deliverable movement in the next couple of months due to the...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Children's Health Ireland is a publicly-funded hospital group in disarray. We have had the ongoing issues with spinal surgeries, the shocking use of non-medical grade springs for scoliosis, which my colleagues mentioned so I will not go into it even though it is such an important issue, and the massive waiting lists. Later, we will discuss the large number of unnecessary hip surgeries,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. Yet, this is what we keep doing in relation to the scourge of nitrous oxide usage. The latter has led to serious injury and death in this country and is now a major source of litter in our communities. So far, it has been left to the Revenue Commissioners to deal with the issue. In that context, they seized 55,000...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade noting that "Ireland’s International Climate Finance Roadmap seeks to address climate challenges and prioritise funding for adaptation efforts in countries most vulnerable to climate change, particularly Small Island Developing States", to outline what tangible work has been done from an Irish perspective over the past five years...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are minimum final pupil numbers required in urban and suburban areas before a second level school is sanctioned; whether there are exceptions to such criteria based on pressing local need or geographic isolation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19303/25]