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Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: And funding. Let me refer to why an oversight mechanism is necessary. Yesterday a group of women were taken away from a protest on genocide, brought to a police station and strip-searched and cavity-searched. What sort of funding can be given to ensure accountability for these women? There is no means by which what happened is justifiable or acceptable. This is related to the content...

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Today, we are speaking to a 291-page document that addresses the changing over of Votes under the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024. Part of this involves the components that deal with whole-of-government responsibility, the strengthening of oversight and accountability, enhanced oversight mechanisms, community engagement and the absorption of current structures into the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: Investor courts.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: To respond to the Minister's last comment, I would encourage him to go down to Rutland National School in his own constituency. It has just received an electricity bill that creates a risk it will have to close its doors. That is not the issue I intended to raise, however. It has been 157 days since the report of the Dublin city task force was launched to great fanfare. We remember all...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2025: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: For many of the reasons outlined, the Social Democrats will not be able to support the reduction in the accommodation payment for Ukrainians. When the invasion began more than two years ago, Irish people on the whole were incredible in how they answered the call. Many opened up their homes and, in doing so, found friends and members of the community who have come in have contributed and...

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: As we are discussing post-EU Council statements I am glad it is the Minister of State who has joined us. Earlier we brought a motion on the triple lock and during his contribution the Minister of State accused me and members of my party of being anti-EU. He went further and almost compared us to Farage. That was an interesting point. I did not see the Minister of State doing any of the...

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: I remind the Minister of State it was places in the UK, such as Holyhead in Anglesey, that voted overwhelmingly to remove themselves from the EU precisely because they were not seeing any benefits from it. They were the areas most devastated by poverty and most removed from what we describe as the benefits of that Union. One of the single greatest threats, as we engage in an arms...

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister of State can shake his head and look as bewildered as he likes.

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Minister of State can shake his head and look as bewildered as he likes but here is the simple fact: the Government has no mandate to remove the triple lock. I accept the Minister of State’s party won more seats than we did in the general election but here is what its manifesto said: “Continue to protect and promote ... neutrality including sensible reform of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State. I assure him my office contacted his office about a week ago regarding that offer. We talked about not wanting to pre-empt any future budget negotiations and in parliamentary form that is absolutely fine. However, if I can pre-empt what happens in the absence of schools being adequately resourced and funded, it is that children are left behind. I will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: This is my first time speaking since yesterday and despite the lowering of standards we are seeing from the Government, nothing will stop me coming in here and speaking on behalf of my community. I want to speak to the Minister of State about funding for schools in the north inner city. Schools in the north inner city, like most schools around the country, are at the coalface of many of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he or any of his Department officials were made aware of the visit a person (details supplied) to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day before 12 March 2025; and, if so, to provide details of this communication. [14276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his Department officials discussed the introduction of new internal disciplinary measures for An Garda Síochána, which form part of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024, with any member(s) of the Garda Representative Association; and, if so, to outline the details of this discussion. [14277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of high-end ‘bait bikes’ purchased for use by An Garda Síochána; the cost of each ‘bait bike’; and, of those ‘bait bikes’ purchased, the number currently in use. [14278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Social Media (26 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the tools, if any, used by his Department, and/or An Garda Síochána, to monitor social media accounts suspected of criminal intent, the use of terms which may cause public unrest, and other actions of ‘bad actors’. [14279/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: It is your friends' fault.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (25 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 169. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of social media video accessible, such as providing the information or activities posted on each of his Department’s social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under its remit, including closed captioning and subtitling and Irish Sign Language translations, between 1 January 2024 and 31...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Social Media (25 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage of social media video accessible, such as providing the information or activities posted on each of his Department’s social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under its remit, including closed captioning and subtitling and Irish Sign Language translations, between...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Social Media (25 Mar 2025)

Gary Gannon: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of social media video accessible, such as providing the information or activities posted on each of his Department’s social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under its remit, including closed captioning and subtitling and Irish Sign Language...