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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: Which specific recommendations are in place for the residents? If residents have a problem with food or their treatment, do they go to the management of the IPAS centres themselves?

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: The question is about how the Minister is ensuring value for money from the IPAS operators. People are entitled to seek asylum, whether they are successful or not. While they are in the care of the State, how the State is spending the money is actually how the Department responds back to us. How is the Minister ensuring that the money is being spent in an effective way?

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: It does not operate effectively. A total of €1.2 billion is allocated for IPAS accommodation this year. What oversight exists to ensure the money is spent on services for residents, rather than expanding the profit margins for operators, and to ensure taxpayers are receiving value for money?

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: We will go for a lightning round. How many people are currently in prisons awaiting deportation? How many people have spent time in prisons this year awaiting deportation?

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: They are going to prisons that are overcrowded. Dóchas, for example, is operating at 141% and yet it has had more than a few people sent there awaiting deportation. What is the impact of that on the prison population and how many people have been released who have committed crimes to make space for those coming in awaiting deportation?

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: How many violent offenders have been allowed out of prison?

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: How many people who have committed violent crimes-----

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: When we have overcrowded prisons, there have been scenarios where people who have committed crimes, sometimes violent, have been allowed out of prisons.

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: Okay. That is not done. I will move on. The Minister mentioned to Deputy Kelly earlier that there were 9,494 children in IPAS accommodation and he talked about an amnesty. How many of those children are awaiting deportations? I will be quick on this but I know there were 197 as of May of this year.

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: There were 197 children, I believe, as of May this year who were awaiting deportation. What is the average length of time they have spent in the country?

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: It would be great if we could get the average length of time.

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: Excellent. What protocols have been put in place with the Garda to monitor violent or intimidating far right protests at deportation centres?

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: Do we have the number for how many of them have been in the country for longer than two years?

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I acknowledge the speakers who brought the motion to the Dáil but I will not be supporting it. I will not say it contains no good ideas but it loses all reason where it refers to the temporary removal of personal items such as PlayStations, Xboxes and smartphones. Are we serious here? Am I right to believe the Government is not opposing a motion that calls for someone to go into...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I stand to speak on the statements on migration. There are many wonderful aspects to it. I would like to talk about the experience and enhancement of communities the length and breadth of the country, but there is also something we just cannot step away from at the moment. Things feel different. It feels like the racism has increased and like the fear in the communities who contact my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of a recent media report regarding An Garda Síochána’s Security and Intelligence Section payment to a company (details supplied), if he will clarify the nature of the technology, software or services that were purchased; if this procurement included spyware; the legal basis upon which An Garda...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for taking this issue tonight. A couple of week ago, I visited the neonatal unit of the Rotunda Hospital, which is just off Parnell Street in my own constituency of Dublin 1. While there, I met the clinicians there who are being asked to work in conditions that are incredibly unsuited to the importance of the work and to the vulnerability of the babies who...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Yes, that is completely as I expected. I understand and accept completely that as legislators, we do not, nor should we, have a role over planning but we do have leadership roles. We do have voice. We are elected to represent the people of our constituencies and to have a say about what is common sense, what is basic humanity and what is just nonsensical. I found it unfathomable when I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 869. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of committals to prison in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by sentence length; and the number of individuals committed to prison in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025 who have served or are serving their first custodial sentence in Ireland. [48160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: 870. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of people remanded to custody in 2024 and to date in 2025. [48161/25]