Results 1-20 of 57 for drugs speaker:Gary Gannon

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.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: Not everything else has been tried. We have had a form of war on drugs for night on 50 years in this country. Deputy Durkan referenced the great Tony Gregory, who did stellar and immensely courageous work in this Chamber in bringing names to those people who flooded the communities upwards of 40 years ago. That should always be remembered. It is, however, four decades later and the...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Gary Gannon: .... If I have time, I will outline what I consider are solutions that we have not tried, for example, in the eradication of organised crime and that which goes with it, which is the illicit sale of drugs. Step one involves removing the weaknesses in the State that are being exploited by organised crime actors through an actual attempt at the eradication of poverty by establishing social...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 1514. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners, by HSE regional area, who have applied to be approved to prescribe PrREP to patients under the drug payment scheme, by calendar year from 2017 to 2022, inclusive; the number of general practice practitioners, by HSE regional area, who have been approved to prescribe PrREP to such patients under the DPS during these...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: Let me in the broadest and warmest sense welcome the citizens’ assembly on drugs. As I was sitting here listening to a previous speaker mentioning the pathway to this much-needed and long overdue assembly, I was thinking to myself of the journey that has taken place in communities all over this country and, in particular, in my own community in the north inner city. If we believe the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...Where is the record of achievement? Deputy McDonald asked for a review. I would like a review. The Taoiseach may remember that the reason the north east inner city task force was initiated to combat drug related crime, poverty and dereliction in the area. Six years later and with €38 million spent, what can be pointed to as a record of achievement? Young people are still being...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...xed;ordáin, for the motion. It is important and I am delighted we have the opportunity to speak about the matter. It is often said, and has been said several times today in the Chamber, that the war on drugs has failed. All of us with good intentions see that it has failed in that it has not done anything to alleviate the suffering of affected communities. When I think of this, I...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...the issues of safety in Dublin. If we start by looking at long-term solutions, let us begin from a very simple premise. I am delighted that the Minister of State, who has responsibility for the national drugs strategy is with us. We can all agree that wherever they come from and whatever their situation, nobody grows up wishing to be afflicted by the scourge of drug addiction. Nobody...