Results 121-140 of 3,647 for speaker:Gary Gannon
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank Ms McKenna. Mr. O'Hara and then Mr. Mason are next.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank you Mr. Mason. I imagine Mr. O'Hara has something to say on that as well.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I am next in the slot but I am also conscious of the patience of Senator Ryan and Deputy Sherlock. If they would like to ask some questions first I think I will have time to ask mine at the end.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Does that remind the Senator of another question?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: No, I am positive.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank the Deputy. I see everyone nodding.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Yes.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Yes.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: We have gone full circle and I have not asked any questions. The witnesses have all given up their time and expertise, taken out of what are clearly busy days. Is there any question that has not been asked of them? Is there any point they were making that was interrupted? Is there anything of which they would like to make this committee aware before they leave?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Thank you, Ms Lyones, for sharing that experience.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: From my part, it genuinely has been a privilege to hear the extent of the work the witnesses do, the heart they bring to it and the difficulties they have to overcome in order to deliver the services that are just based on kindness, decency and humanity. It should not have to be so hard. I thank the witnesses. On the part of the committee, we have all been better informed from their...
- Estimates for Public Services 2025 (24 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: What strikes me reading through the Estimate is how little ambition the Government is showing when it come to targeting vulnerable young people, tackling domestic violence and living up to our obligations on prisons and immigration. Once again, we are presented with tables that look busy on the page but that fail utterly to meet the needs of the people who depend on a functioning and fair...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: In the Irish Examiner this morning, Cormac O'Keeffe gave voice to what many of us working in the area already know. Throughout Dublin city, even youth workers are starting to feel scared as they go about their work, such are the levels of increased violence and intimidation. I find that extraordinary. What is more extraordinary is that the Minister's Government has, over the last two...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Are they wrong?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I will tell the people-----
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: 122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the independent external review of the chaplaincy service within the Irish Prison Service; the timeframe for the implementation of the review's recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50720/25]
- Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I too welcome our guests in the Gallery. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion tonight. It is timely. Many households will be looking in on this debate with eagerness because winter is approaching. We broadly agree with most aspects of the motion before us this evening. We live in a country where energy prices are among the highest in Europe. That reality is hitting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for his presentation . I assume I am one of the people he referenced as accusing him of lacking compassion when it comes to deportation flights. I do not think I personalised the matter. The decision that was made lacked compassion. I might just go into it, since the Minister referenced it. The decision was in relation to the deportation of children. The Minister...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: Yes, both of us would like to see a speeding-up of the process, but probably with different safeguards implemented beforehand. However, those children had been here for many years of their young lives. That is the difference. They were failed by the same systems the Minister is trying to rectify, so within that there possibly is space for an amnesty in light of the length of time a child...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Gary Gannon: As I said, 17% of the centres did not meet the standards. Earlier this year the whistleblower's ombudsman described as unacceptable the current regime for investigating wrongdoing in IPA centres. What reforms have been introduced since then to ensure that residents can safely and effectively report mistreatment or mismanagement?