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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (9 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: 514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the ongoing, chronic drug use and anti-social behaviour at Moore Lane, beside the Rotunda Maternity Hospital [29355/24]

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...try to confine myself to the legislation. As he knows, I have tabled a number of Topical Issues relating to public safety in Dublin 1, 3 and 7. Knife crime goes hand in hand with the open sale of drugs that is being facilitated in parts of the city. There are areas in my constituency where residents will open their door to find a group of people outside who are very obviously either...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...all accept that nobody should have to walk their child to school through a plume of smoke. Nobody should have to open their door and see a person who can be intimidating engaging in the sale of drugs, or some unfortunate soul who has succumbed to that lying on the ground. There are a multitude of different interventions that could happen. Very simply, the people I represent understand...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (26 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...Street, the gateway into the city for anybody coming from the airport, will see huge levels of dereliction that would not be tolerated anywhere else. Down any one of the lanes in the area, you can see drug dealing taking place openly, as well as poor human souls with a degree of chaos in their lives who are not receiving treatment from the State and are dealing with their trauma by...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...on the proud men and women of the Naval Service, who do an incredible job in difficult circumstances and conditions. However, we should invest in them more. We are seen as a soft touch for transnational organised crime, with the international drugs trade using Irish waters as a gateway to Europe. We should not permit that to continue. We know that in recent years probing missions have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dublin City Task Force (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...before that - the streets cannot be policed with crisis management. Every single week without fail a video is sent to me by one of the business operators in the city centre either of open drug dealing or the stealing of bikes and inevitably there is an absence of any Garda response. I have no criticism of the gardaí who are there, but there are never enough. That is a failure...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dublin City Task Force (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...and Transport for Ireland. That makes complete and utter sense. For example, will the HSE also be present? One of the issues we have seen for decades in Dublin city centre is people in chronic states of drug addiction who are very vulnerable. How does the Taoiseach intend to cater for that need? Will the task force look at detox beds to allow people to recover from substance misuse?...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...' groups in a Dublin 1 area, from Buckingham Street around to Talbot Street. Their issues are ones that have been replicated over the last number of years. There is chronic law-breaking and open drug dealing and when the residents call the gardaí none arrives. The Minister will be familiar with the area. It is where the Minister for Justice took a much-lauded walk a couple of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...of State for his comprehensive reply and appreciate his response on an issue I raised previously. That is highly beneficial. I noted that a lot of young people are being groomed into the drugs industry. They are given electric bikes and then zoom up and down different networks and pathways in the area. I fully believe that those young people are victims. I am not looking for a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...am spending most evenings knocking on doors and talking to people in the run-up to the referendums and the local elections. The issue that comes up consistently is the issue of law-breaking, open drug-dealing, antisocial behaviour and the feeling that this has no consequences. It takes a multitude of different forms. When I am up around Dominick Street, the issue is people hanging...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...on the issue and the heart he brings to it. It is incredibly welcome. The Social Democrats will support the Bill. For many years, the Social Democrats have favoured a health-based approach to drugs. That is why we believe a policy of decriminalisation should be pursued in respect of the possession of drugs for personal use. It was welcome that the report of the Citizens’...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...the matter of safety so that their children do not have to walk to school through plumes of smoke and do not have to leave school and see vulnerable people in various states of intoxication, open drug dealing and open drug injection. That is not the norm anywhere else and I will not accept it for the norm of my community. There will be no return to normality. I do not believe that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...gates in the inner city and other parts of Dublin and around the country. In my constituency, too often children walk outside of their school gates and are met by antisocial behaviour, open drug dealing and people in various states of intoxication. Those people have problems and are not to be used as a prop in the Dáil. However, there are issues of safety in general around those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...outside of school gates. In the inner city and surrounding areas that I represent, too often over the years I have received calls from parents and members of the school community to remove open drug dealing from outside of the school or vulnerable people in various states of intoxication from outside a school. We have to take this issue seriously. I strongly encourage the Minister to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (11 Jul 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...Dublin City Council on addressing dereliction and street cleaning? Has she engaged with the Department of Health to ensure we can offer assistance to those people who are down laneways engaging in drug abuse? They do not want to be there. What is happening at ministerial level in terms of quick actions? I do not want to give a dystopian view of Dublin because it is an incredible place...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...by interacting and converging with other existing risks and pressures, thus increasing the risk of violent conflict, terrorism, human trafficking, refugee crises, poverty and the threat of drug cartels, to name but a few. Adding to these challenges are hybrid threats, a combination of low-risk activities, including the use of third parties to conduct cyberattacks, data breaches and...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...their own community safety as well. This is a job for everyone, not just the police. It involves mobilising communities against organised crime actors through public information campaigns on drug-related intimidation and its negative impact on the community. It would break down the false support these actors have harnessed through fear. It would involve designating local community...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...by Deputy Durkan's comment that those of us who believe in a different model and approach to eradicating the criminality that we have seen in our communities have become some sort of a boon to the drug barons. The greatest asset to drug barons is poverty and poverty is perpetuated. Deputy Durkan can shake his head.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Deputy then went on to say that we have a border and through some form of intervention of that, we should be able to stop drugs coming in.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: To highlight an example, we cannot keep drugs out of a single prison not only in Ireland, but in Europe or the US. People who believe, as what we have heard from the Deputies to my right, that is possible and that perpetuates the problem.