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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I put it to the Taoiseach that the Government is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on the mother and baby homes report. Today in the High Court, the State will strongly defend the report of the mother and baby homes commission in legal action brought by survivors against the report. Simultaneously, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 964. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department carried out a data protection impact assessment on the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter Bill 2020; and if so, if the assessment will be made available. [33100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his position and actions either taken by his Department or scheduled for the future on archival infrastructure to ensure truth for mother and baby homes. [31365/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Data (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 652. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether there will still be a right of access to personal data in the archive of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes after it is transferred to him according to the GDPR and Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 as amended by the Data Protection Act 2018. [27321/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: The House passed a motion this morning to extend the life of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. The Government facilitated this by not opposing the motion. On foot of the motion, the Minister needs to update the House or introduce the necessary legislation tomorrow. We have called on him to do so and we will call a vote.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: The motion that was passed today pertains to extending the commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes, which dissolves a few days hence. The fact that the House passed the motion requires the Minister to act and to tell us what he is going to do. We must create space for that and that is the reason we will push for a division on this issue.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 639. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the independently appointed Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes specifically and repeatedly recommended to his Department that the task of managing information and tracing be removed from Tusla on the basis that they experienced the behaviour of the agency to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 640. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if instead of transferring records from the archive of the Commission for Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to Tusla he will transfer the specified database to the Adoption Authority of Ireland until such time as the records can be preserved in an independent centralised archive of all historical injustice records in view of the...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...of the Minister's opening statement. He referenced the interdepartmental group which will assess the provision of a form of enhanced medical card to everyone who spent more than six months in mother and baby institutions. I join Deputy Sherlock in urging the Minister to lift the six-month limit. The trauma of those who spent a week or a month in those institutions is no less than the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: The Social Democrats strongly object to tomorrow's business, in particular the debate on the commission on mother and baby homes being sealed for 30 years and the manner in which this is being brought before the House. It has been rammed through the Seanad and there has been no pre-legislative scrutiny on it. Inevitably, it will face a guillotine given the time allocated to the debate. It...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: 307. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to the latest statement of the special rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council made on Friday 23 September 2022 calling on Ireland to introduce adequate redress for systemic racism and racial discrimination in childcare institutions; the actions that he plans to take to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: 646. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he acknowledges that adopted persons, survivors and advocates have not called for unrestricted use or open public access to the archive of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes but they have requested differentiated rights of access to the archive, namely personal data access for those personally affected, access...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: The Taoiseach was present when the Social Democrats motion on extending the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes was passed today. As such, it is reasonable to have a session where the responsible Minister outlines what steps he will take as a matter of urgency to ensure the commission is not dissolved. We could not raise this matter on the Order of Business because we did...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: I revert to the legislation on the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes that is to go through the House tonight. In an exchange yesterday with Deputy Cairns, the Taoiseach mentioned the fact that the Government was not seeking to seal the records and asked us to accept his bona fides on that. That statement directly contradicted statements made by the Minister, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: I had not intended this but I am returning to the matter of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation. Why did the Government allow a motion to be passed earlier in respect of extending the term of the commission if it was not going to act upon it? That is a really cynical exercise in politics. It brings to mind stroke politics. If the Government is not going to act on the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...when we stop to consider the full enormity of what we are here to discuss today. That enormity is that for four fifths of just over the 100-year history of this Republic, a collusion of church and State saw fit to incarcerate en massewomen and girls of all ages and backgrounds, and young working-class boys, who committed no wrong other than to be in the way of a cruel war of morality that...

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: I commend my friend and colleague, Deputy Whitmore, on bringing forward this motion on child poverty. It is an issue we all care deeply about and hope to address in the lifetime of this Dáil because we have waited far too long. More than 200,000 children are at risk of poverty, 90,000 children are living in consistent poverty, and behind every one of those children there is a...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...does not aim to provide practical solutions. I have an alternative view as to why the Government is not tabling a countermotion. It was reported in yesterday's newspapers that it would not do so and would allow the motion pass and then sit on its hands and do nothing. This commission of investigation will dissolve unless the Government extends it. By sitting on its hands, the...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I begin by bringing into the Chamber the words of the American poet, feminist and lesbian activist, Adrienne Rich, who said, "Every built thing has its unmeant purpose." It should be a source of celebration the Irish State and people should be getting a modern maternity hospital, free of Nightingale wards and with single-room occupancy. The fact hundreds of millions of euro will be spent to...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: First, there are no words that can make this okay for Ashling Murphy and those who knew and loved her. I express, once again, my party's sympathies and solidarity with her family and all who knew and loved Ashling. I hope that our collective outpouring of grief and anger as a nation following her killing provides some modicum of solace to them in the horrendously difficult days, months and...