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Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (6 Nov 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Minister for bringing forward the Bill. It is a technical one that tidies up provisions across our courts and civil law system, and we will, of course, be supporting it. However, I want to use the opportunity, when we have a Bill that is to do with the appointment of more judges, to talk not about the structures of the courts but about the culture that exists within them,...

International Protection Processing and Enforcement: Statements (5 Nov 2025)

Gary Gannon: I consistently hear the Minister of State talking absolute drivel and I do not interrupt him. So, who are we actually taking out of sectors? Is it students? Regardless of who is taken out, that will prove another area where this Government has failed. Removing students would actually destroy the education sector. Does it want to take people out of the healthcare system? Where is it?...

International Protection Processing and Enforcement: Statements (5 Nov 2025)

Gary Gannon: I completely welcome the debate. I am conscious it could be happening in a very different context, given how fortunate we were that the horrors we saw too viscerally in Drogheda last week did not materialise in an outcome that would have been most devastating with a loss of life. It was a scenario, however, where a person with hatred in their soul placed petrol on stairs. You cannot...

Decriminalisation of People Who Use Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy Sherlock and the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. The opportunity to discuss decriminalisation can never come too soon. I welcome the opportunity to speak on it today. The motion states that we recall the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use, the interim report of the Oireachtas Committee on Drugs Use and the Misuse of Drugs Act. All we are doing is recalling them,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Tánaiste said nothing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Gary Gannon: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: He was wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: That is pure arrogance.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: The last resort of the desperate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: There is best practice. It is not good form

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Aontú for bringing forward the motion today. Listening in to this morning's proceedings, it has been quite an interesting discussion. The motion includes some worthy measures. I fully stand over extending the voting rights to Irish citizens in the North of Ireland and even having a discussion about how nominations happen is something that we should do consistently but I...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of any cases in which young people have been asked to prove that they were ‘abandoned’ by a parent or guardian in order to access social welfare supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57438/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I ask for a debate on the co-ordinated attacks by Government parties on the legal profession. It is a dark week in this House and it is important that Members of the Government reaffirm their commitment to the rule of law, which they have undermined this week in a shoddy attempt-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: The EU pact requires that the best interests of the child be a primary consideration throughout the asylum process. Where in the Bill as drafted do the witnesses see that principle being put into practice, if anywhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Does Ms Murphy see the rights of the child being met anywhere in this general scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: This may be for the Bar Council of Ireland, but also for all our witnesses, whom I thank for their contributions. What is meant by legal counselling? We were struggling with this last week and are still struggling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: We are going to implement it in eight months and we do not understand what a legal counsellor constitutes at the moment. That seems extraordinary to me. Do any of the other witnesses understand what a legal counsellor is because we are struggling with it? I do not see how we can continue with the work without being able to define what that means.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: The Bill establishes that a chief inspector of asylum and border procedures will be appointed and will be removable by the Minister to act as the independent monitoring mechanism. Does the Bar Council or any other witnesses have any concerns about the independence of that role, what is required under the EU pact, the fundamental rights agency guidelines and what is actually catered for in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Regarding the collection of biometric data from children as young as six, which allows reasonable force under the Bill as presented, where an officer has reasonable grounds to believe a person is an adult, from a children's rights perspective, how should the Bill be amended to explicitly protect the child's dignity and physical integrity and to ensure no child is ever subjected to coercion or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Is it appropriate to seek context from the Department in terms of how the Bill was formulated? Having listened to the witnesses' testimony, I would like to understand the context in which we have come to this point.