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

Gary Gannon: I have had this matter selected as a Topical Issue on four separate occasions. Each time, I called for a comprehensive, Cabinet-led approach to the issues of violence in our city centre, which too often has plagued and blighted the place that I love and that I walk through every day. We have had some satisfaction in that regard. The Taoiseach has announced that he intends to construct a...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: These are important statements on special education. In advance of this debate, I took the opportunity to ask schools and educational leaders in my community and other parts of Dublin about the circumstances of special education in their schools. While I will not refer to any school by name, I will speak to some of the issues they raised with me during those telephone conversations in the...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: We are asked today to make statements on Europe Day so let me make a statement straight off the bat. Europe is complicit in the genocide that is taking place in Gaza and under that blanket, nothing else matters. When the Tánaiste spoke earlier, in Trumpian fashion, he equated the right and the left and spoke of a collective cynicism about the EU as if those two groups shared the same...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Another diplomatic fiasco from this Government is splashed all over the front pages of the right-wing press in the UK today. According to The Daily Telegraph, Rishi Sunak is imploring the Irish Government not to set up checkpoints at the Irish Border. He is urging the Taoiseach to maintain an open Border. You could not make this stuff up. The Government's panicked, reactive and shambolic...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...and end with a quote given to me many years ago by survivors of Magdalen laundries who formed the basis of the work I was asked me to undertake during my time as a Dublin City councillor, namely that the antithesis of restorative justice is the retraumatisation of victims. We should keep that quote close to us as we endeavour on the road before us in honouring and providing supports to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. Like him, I have had to master the art of bilocation today, so I apologise in advance if any of these questions have already been asked. Last week we were assured border procedures were absolutely not detention centres. Will the witnesses speak to that if they can? I am very fearful of the border procedures to be set up under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: It is not grand that we have a situation happening at the Border where, devoid of any legislation, we have buses being stopped and people being profiled based on the colour of their skin and asked to show a passport. I am unsure, and perhaps the committee can inform me, under which legislation that currently happens and under which legislation the 100 gardaí headed to the Border...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: At present, although I would imagine this will become more relevant if the pact does come in towards 2026, what legal powers does the Garda have in terms of enforcement at the shared border between North and South? I am concerned about profiling and requests to produce passports. What are the legal powers at present and does the Department envision a scenario whereby legislation will be...

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: We welcome the principles behind the Bill and we fully support it through its passage. I will not use the full 20 minutes. In welcoming the Bill, we acknowledge that it provides for the necessary advancements in the modernisation of how we deal with the beginning and the end of lives, times that are full of ecstasy and grief, in turn. Aside from the obvious fact that the process of...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion, which is incredibly important and timely. The Social Democrats fully support it. The motion recognises carers' invaluable contribution to society and highlights their mistreatment by the State, which is something that I hope we can work collectively, across the Chamber, to rectify. I echo the call to fully abolish the carer's allowance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: The Minister mentioned the 80% of people who come from North to South without documentation. The border procedure we are opting into must take place at designated locations near the border or in another area designated by the member state. Where does the Minister envisage we have this border procedure? Will it be on the road to Belfast?

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I am grateful for the opportunity to make some points on this Bill and our pension system more generally. I do not want to come across as if I am suggesting that auto-enrolment is without benefit. Many hardworking people with no pension savings will be saving for the first time and will be better off as a result. Overall, however, I wonder about the repercussions. How does this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on considerations regarding potential reforms to the Leaving Certificate, given the concerns raised by teachers at this year's annual teachers conferences. [16491/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: One of the more odious aspects of the Taoiseach's contribution to the Fine Gael Ard-Fheis on Saturday was when he said, "It is time to have pride again in our capital city", as if Fine Gael had not held the justice Ministry for the past 13 years. He went on to say he would immediately convene a Dublin city centre task force, bringing together the council, retailers, business, community...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: Look at the Christian corner, calling themselves good Christians.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: When I sat down this morning to prepare my words and think about what I was going to offer to this debate today, I thought about some of the images from last week of people in our international protection system being bussed to Crooksling and then walking back, of the testimony from their advocates and some of the conversations I had with some of those sleeping in tents over the last number...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the training of at least four members of the Israeli Defence Forces by the Irish Military College since 2017 has, in his opinion, compromised Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13291/24]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: There was a time when I could proudly refer to the EU as a peace project. I can no longer refer to it in such terms. There has been a degree of apathy among some nations. I do not hold us accountable for that. We have stood out because the bar was so low. Given that what is happening has already met the standard of a genocide and a famine is approaching, how can this week’s...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: Has the Government made a decision on if and when Ireland will support South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ? On 30 January, the Tánaiste informed the Dáil that an urgent legal analysis of South Africa's case to the ICJ had commenced. Has that analysis been concluded? What was the determination in that regard? I would like to know what the Government is going to do.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: My question pertains specifically to South Africa's case at the ICJ. I welcome that the Attorney General represented Ireland very well at the public hearings, but my question specifically relates to the process by which we will align ourselves with South Africa's case. I would like to understand the work that has been undertaken to this point. How many people, for example, are working on...