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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: On legal counselling and access to justice, the pact explicitly allows member states to offer free legal advice and representation at first instance, which Ireland already does. Why has the Department decided, according to the testimonies of the witnesses today and last week, to roll back on that right and create this undefined concept of legal counselling? That clearly weakens the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: That makes it difficult in the pre-legislative scrutiny phase to obtain any understanding from Ms O'Keeffe and the Department. I thank Ms O'Keeffe for what she offered, but what I have outlined makes it impossible for the committee. On collection of biometric data from children potentially as young as six, is the Department confident that this is in accordance with the rights of the child?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I am interested in whether any of the witnesses would like to respond on that. It seems to be new information that was not in the written submissions from the witnesses. Would anyone like to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I want to move on to the proposed chief inspector of the asylum border procedures who is, under the terms of the Bill, going to be appointed, and potentially removed, by a Minister. In creating that position, does the Department feel that it is in accordance with the minimum standards of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights for independence?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I welcome our witnesses attending today. I welcome Dr. Sharon Lambert, from the School of Applied Psychology, UCC, and the Psychological Society of Ireland; Ms Caroline O’Reilly, addiction counsellor and psychotherapist; and, fromAddiction Counsellors of Ireland,ACI, Dr. James O’Shea, chairperson, Dr. Laura O’Reilly, vice chairperson, and Mr. Jay Collins, secretary. On...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Gary Gannon: I thank Dr. Lambert very much for her contribution. I now invite Ms Caroline O’Reilly to give her opening statement.