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Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: We will follow it up in another session, bringing in some witnesses from the sector. If anyone wishes to make a last point, he or she may do so.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the witnesses for their expertise and for helping to inform us. The committee was tasked with doing a job following on from the recommendations of the citizens assembly and the previous Oireachtas committee. They are expert witnesses and the fact they have given us their time will help our work a lot. As always, if there is anything we can do - and most of us are reasonably...

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: We were waiting.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (2 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recognition rate, including appeals, for all international protection applicants; and the recognition rate, including appeals, for applicants from designated safe countries of origin, to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52688/25]

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: My eagerness to speak on this subject stems from the fact that I understand sport has an incredible impact, not only in our communities and in the lives of the people who get to benefit from it. When we debate the impact of the sports capital programme, the large-scale sport infrastructure fund and the major sporting events programme, it is important that we talk honestly about how we...

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I will begin by joining Deputy Gibney in welcoming her friends Bushra and Mohammed to the Chamber. Their presence here is really welcome and we hope they will be joined by Bushra's other children very shortly. I will also acknowledge the 22 citizens who are on board the flotilla heading for Gaza, two of whom are colleagues of ours. They are bringing medical supplies, including prosthetic...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Earlier this week, my party leader, Deputy Cairns, asked a very simple question. In what other profession in this country are people subjected to a means test, just to be recognised for the work they do? It is a stark question that gets to the heart of the matter. That is what this is about. Carers are professionals in every sense of the word. They do the work that is essential to the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Services (1 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The north east inner city task force is referenced quite a bit in the Chamber and other Deputies ask for similar schemes to be applied in their own areas. Why would they not? A substantial amount has been allocated over a nearly seven-year period. We should remember why that task force was initiated. It was initiated to confront the crime,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Services (1 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister of State for being here to discuss what is frankly a crisis in the way the State approaches youth work in the north inner city. Over the past few weeks we have all seen the headlines on the spate of crimes in the area. I am not going to sensationalise what is happening. Instead, I want to force this Government to acknowledge that these youth people, some of them not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I echo the sentiments of both the Chair and the other members that for a Bill of this size, it is almost farcical that we are being allocated this amount of time to go through such a comprehensive and diverse legislation. I thank all the contributors here today. I want to ask my first question to Dr. Leahy, if that is okay. From her account, it is clear the disclosure of counselling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Dr. Leahy for that. I want to talk to Mr. Herrick next. He has noted that the GREVIO, the expert group monitoring the Istanbul Convention, has made recommendations in this area. Could the witness say what GREVIO has specifically recommended regarding disclosure of victim's personal records and why those recommendations are so significant for protecting survivors' rights?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I think it is imperative the committee establishes from the Department why exactly it is deviating from those best practices. I want to move onto the pepper spray in prisons. Ms Brady mentioned that in rare cases, chemical irritants can cause death. We know from the CPT report that there has been a pattern of preventable deaths in custody and a lack of reviews to prevent reoccurrence....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: What is driving the need for such a chemical irritant in prisons and what does the evidence tell us? Have prisoner-on-prison guard assaults risen or is that not the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Thank you, Ms Brady.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Bar Council referenced in its submission that the Bill would require a court hearing in every single case. It warned of this potentially causing more delays in a system that is already slow and onerous. Will Ms O'Leary recommend specific provisions to make the system more efficient and victim-centred or even fairer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I would like to come back on that issue. Very briefly, I have a question for the Courts Service. We spoke about how increased technology would improve efficiency. Is that the only barometer by which we should increase technology?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: I am delighted to welcome everyone to the first public meeting of the Joint Committee on Drugs Use. The committee will have nine months to carry out its work and I look forward to engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and having insightful contributions on this most important topic. I welcome our witnesses who will engage with us later in this meeting. You are all very welcome. For...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Our next contributor is Senator Black. She is having issues dialling in remotely so we will move on to Ms Barry to give her opening statement.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: Many thanks. Our next speaker is Mr. Slattery from the Northstar Family Support Project.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Gary Gannon: We are over time. We can come back to Mr. Slattery during questions unless he wants to conclude quickly.