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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: A person who arrives and claims asylum on specific grounds is often not aware of his or her legal rights. Does the State sometimes at a later date weaponise the fact a person may not be aware of how to communicate that?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...Add the 10th campaign. I am not sure if Paul McKeon is in the Gallery. For as long as I have been in politics, he has been talking to me about this issue. He really has been pushing it home. That the visitors in the Gallery are here is a genuine example of civic engagement. The purpose of the Bill is to expand the protections of both Acts to prohibit discrimination on the basis of...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...necessary to bring about essential policing reform, thereby enhancing public support and confidence in the Garda in the process. The Bill goes a long way to giving effect to some of the recommendations the commission made concerning governance, oversight and accountability mechanisms for the Garda. However, in several ways, it falls significantly short of the mark. This is incredibly...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Let me in the broadest and warmest sense welcome the citizens’ assembly on drugs. As I was sitting here listening to a previous speaker mentioning the pathway to this much-needed and long overdue assembly, I was thinking to myself of the journey that has taken place in communities all over this country and, in particular, in my own community in the north inner city. If we believe the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I apologise to the speakers. I thank them for their contributions not only today, but also over the past couple of months. The past couple of months have been, without question, what can only be described as the scariest time that I have witnessed in politics for a long time. The speakers have all been at the coalface of combating it, talking to people and fighting back against the hate....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I have a brief addendum. We spoke about the responsibility of the State. There seems to be one Department in the State left with responsibility, which is the one that we are in at the minute. Have the guests noticed the consequences of a singular Department? What would they suggest in terms of an all-Department, all-State approach? This Department seems to be left with the sole...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Minister is contradicting his own colleague. He mentioned it on RTÉ Radio 1's "Drivetime" on Tuesday. The Minister can take it up with him. The Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, also put out a call for other Ministers to step up. If it is not true, it is certainly something that is being presented by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment's own colleagues. ...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: One of the problems with sitting here listening to others' contribution is that one's own speech can often go out the window. I will start with basic truths because we are living in an age of extraordinary misinformation and the targets of that are often the people to whom we are referring today. For me and for the party I represent, it is important to be unashamedly pro-migration. My...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I thank my colleague, Deputy Whitmore, for tabling this important motion. The motions process is interesting. Essentially, we table motions that set out what the Government should be doing and then the Government says what it has done. All the while, real consequences are being felt in people's homes. I wish to throw some light on what is being felt in people's homes and the level of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Cabra is situated in such a place that when gardaí need to be reallocated to other parts of the north side, it usually has to take the brunt of that. With the recent spate of protests, which I am reluctant to call them, or the engagements in which the Garda was involved, it was Cabra Garda station that lost some of its gardaí to go to those scenarios. Cabra is also situated beside...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I am here to discuss crime and antisocial behaviour in Cabra. I want to say before I do that I do not believe Cabra is by any means different from any other part of the city or the country. Cabra is a very well-settled place full of people who love living there. Why would they not? There are issues in Cabra, as there are throughout other parts of Dublin, with an element of antisocial...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin. It is of paramount importance that we address the cost-of-living crisis with urgency and action. I fear that the gravity of the term "cost of living" is being lost on members of the Government. Perhaps the Society of St. Vincent de Paul captured it better when it talked of the cost of survival, which is experienced in people's homes every single...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: When the Taoiseach answers the Deputies' questions, in particular those of Deputies Haughey and Tóibín, will he explain the complications for a person seeking sanctuary in Ireland coming from Eritrea, for example, where they do not have the capacity to get a passport in the way we do, or a person fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, where passports have not been issued since 2021, or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (9 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: I appreciate fully that poverty is multidimensional. I hope it goes across all Departments. The Ombudsman for Children asked for a child poverty strategy to be embedded in all Departments and I welcome this call. At its basis, poverty, whether that is childhood poverty or the poverty of a family, is about what a person is being asked to go without, such as food, warm clothes, shoes or the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (2 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: It was with that cause for reflection that I was motivated to ask the question. I assume I have a different opinion from the Tánaiste, in that I believe the triple lock has given us strength until this point and I do not want to infringe in any way on our neutrality, although we may disagree as to whether it would or not. Why not have the debate as opposed to spending the past year or...

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Gary Gannon: I cannot help but despair when listening to this debate. It is a year to the day since the publication of the Maskey review into South Kerry CAMHS and the situation remains dire. Vulnerable children are being utterly failed on this Government's watch and the Minister’s colleagues’ chorus of concern is of little help. I note in particular that the Taoiseach and Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Gary Gannon: I will use the Taoiseach's recent conversations with President von der Leyen as a springboard into the conversation I want to have. When the President was here in December, she spoke of Ireland’s great reception for those who came seeking sanctuary. In the last couple of days, it has once again been announced that accommodation will not be provided to people who come here seeking...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Taoiseach's office oversees the north inner city programme. As such, I hope he will agree that dereliction has long contributed to the decline of the north-east inner city, which in turn creates the conditions for antisocial behaviour and crime. The north inner city programme was established to address dereliction as a root cause of antisocial behaviour and is dedicated to the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. I read through the Taoiseach's speech as it pertained to the topics covered by the European Council summit next week. Russia and Ukraine will of course be on the agenda, as will energy, the economy, security, defence and external relations. The Minister of State might clarify whether there will be a discussion on supporting the thousands...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Gary Gannon: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank all the contributors today, including both Ministers of State. I have to be honest. It was some stroke, was it not? It was almost a stroke of monumental proportions. Having been contacted by parents, as I am sure everyone in the Chamber has been, and in consultation with schools in all of our communities, we brought forward a...