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Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome the Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill, which, as the Minister said, represents a major upgrade of existing legislation. I welcome the fact it will reduce from seven years to two the time between a judicial determination of an asset being the proceeds of crime and a final disposal order being available. I especially welcome the immediate and automatic appointment of a...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I agree on this point. With Brexit especially, it does not make sense to have any input from a UK organisation and RAAP has historically done that. As it said in its contributions to this committee, it has never had complaints about the way it collects on behalf of artists. We should leave it in the hands of professionals so to speak. I also agree putting it through the courts system...

Transfer of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the Minister for his contribution. In some ways, this is necessary legislation. In other ways, it is a bit like watching paint dry, especially when talking about going through the motions. I am not sure whether I will be here when we get around to the motions on Switzerland in a while. I wanted to discuss the wider issues of all this booking information that is provided by...

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Two years ago, Ireland celebrated the 30th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. We saw further incremental progress after that through the civil partnership process, which was a stepping stone to full marriage equality following the passing of the thirty-fourth amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. This year, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the legislation...

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Like others, I welcome the establishment of the commission of investigation into historical sexual abuse in all-day and boarding schools. I do in all sincerity regret that it has taken so long to move into this area and ensure that all survivors who are still alive receive acknowledgement and, hopefully, some justice. I express my personal sympathies to the survivors and all the families...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Recent studies have shown that Dublin is again a dirty city and Cork as well, for that matter. They have not improved. If anything, they have become worse. We have had less visible plastic. A couple of weeks ago, I saw a guy throw a bottle out of the car. He would only have got 15 cent for it, but could not do anything about it, so it ended up in the ditch. We have a situation where...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Should we not increase fines to have real consequences for people dropping litter?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: According to Irish Business Against Litter, IBAL, it is.

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We will now move on to questions and answers. The Taoiseach or another Minister or Minister of State will take questions and answers for a period not exceeding 20 minutes and the following arrangements will apply. There is no set time for a question or an answer but it is normal for the Chair to ask Members to be concise given the short time period available. Opposition parties and groups...

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: It is good to have the opportunity to speak about the European Council meeting that took place at the end of June. Even in the past couple of weeks, things have moved on and changed. The next meeting is not until October. I acknowledge that it is a difficult job for the Government, as a member of a very large bloc and a small country, to try to get our views across. There were 12 key...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I want to ask a question that others have raised on the issue of Garda vetting. As we know, a teacher doing a summer project, such as mentoring in a GAA club, needs separate vetting. This is quite farcical and the process could be streamlined to be a lot quicker, but every time we raised it were told the Garda vetting review group was the group that was going to report on this. The former...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: As others have said, people are suffering from massive price inflation across a range of areas, including in supermarkets, the subject of this debate. The causes are varied, including wars, energy price hikes, supply shortages, Brexit and so on, but the suspicion remains that the supermarket chains are making excessive profits. As Ireland is the second most expensive country in Europe,...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I will go as quick as I can. I reiterate the support for the power-up scheme and the ICOB scheme or some incarnation continuing on. I have a question on indigenous innovation. We are way behind on wave energy. For example, we need to develop investment in deep water ports to meet our wind energy target. Is there anything planned for massive capital increases or borrowing for that? On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I congratulate Ms Kennedy on her new role and I thank her for the presentation. I was here for it but then I had to go to the Chamber. I will try not to repeat questions that others have asked. I checked with my colleague and not too much has been asked about the AI side of things, so that is where I will focus. I noticed a piece in the Journal of Accountancy, which is US based. It did a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Regarding how this is being talked about more and more, I presume that in the training for actuaries right now, it is being integrated. In that context, the risks are coming from the people coming up. It is a bit like second-level students using AI to come up with an answer but they cannot show how they came up with the answer. Obviously, there will be checks and balances. The job of...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Findings of the 2025 European Movement Ireland EU Poll: European Movement Ireland (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome Ms O’Connell and Ms Hayes and thank them for the presentation. It is always good to get an independent viewpoint of European Union views over the years. Historically, we have been one of the strongest supporters of the European Union over a period but, as with other areas, it has declined. There was a bit of an increase a couple years back and it has gone back to a level....

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Ba mhaith liom seans cúpla focal a rá anocht. I was in the Green Party back in 2009 when everything was cut to shreds. Back then I fought a little bit of a rearguard battle with some of my colleagues to get education cuts reversed and to stop registration fees being increased. That was when stuff was quite expensive. The cost of living rose post Covid and the registration fees...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We have an amendment of a Bill to legislation that has not been enacted. Looking at it, at face value one has to welcome it. Regarding the retrospective suspension of planning permission duration during judicial review, insofar as there are delays caused by judicial reviews, I take this point. However, as others have said, judicial reviews are not the main issue, which I will go into in a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if part of a hotel complex (details supplied) is now a holding and detention centre for those awaiting deportation; if a coherent policy in terms of whether those awaiting deportation at IPAS centres are allowed to roam free or are they locked into a hotel room 24-hours-a-day; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if IPAS detainees being held pre-deportation or pending prison transfer can legally be held in hotels (details supplied) given that this is not purely accommodation, rather quasi-detention and likely falls outside the “hotel emergency reception” exemption and would be considered unauthorised development unless...