I ask the Minister about the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement, DRIVE, programme, which is funded by her Department. We all recognise that drug-related intimidation is endemic the length and breadth of Ireland at the moment. We have seen the horrors of that in its full force last week. Last year, the DRIVE programme received annual funding of €280,000 from the Department of Health. That was increased …
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Gary Gannon
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645
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
147,808
words spoken in the chamber
Across 475 contributions
389
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
109
topics asked about
Across 20 departments
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Month by month
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Questions asked 645 in all
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Contributions to debates 475 in all
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| December 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| January 2025 | 6 | 1 |
| February 2025 | 32 | 27 |
| March 2025 | 90 | 23 |
| April 2025 | 117 | 32 |
| May 2025 | 32 | 24 |
| June 2025 | 49 | 39 |
| July 2025 | 11 | 19 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 15 | 9 |
| October 2025 | 38 | 17 |
| November 2025 | 28 | 22 |
| December 2025 | 10 | 7 |
| January 2026 | 40 | 35 |
| February 2026 | 23 | 45 |
| March 2026 | 15 | 31 |
| April 2026 | 5 | 27 |
| May 2026 | 9 | 16 |
| June 2026 | 35 | 26 |
| July 2026 | 23 | 39 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 41 | 14 |
| October 2026 | 26 | 22 |
Debates they spoke in most
Plus 249 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.
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- constituency Dublin Central 29 November 2024 to now
- party Social Democrats 29 November 2024 to now
As a member of the justice committee, I was delighted to play a part in producing this report. I thank everyone who contributed, in particular the Chair of the committee, Deputy Carthy.
What is particularly frustrating about this issue is that we all know the system is in crisis. We know people are being locked out of access to justice because they simply cannot afford it. We know that those being failed most profou…
I acknowledge and welcome Sheila, Austin, Kieran and Oliver Stack and thank them for their immense courage and their dignity in being here today. The grace and determination the members of the Stack family have shown throughout their decades-long campaign for justice have been nothing short of remarkable. What began as a senseless act of violence against this family became a decades-long fight for answers, accountabi…
I begin by making it clear that the Social Democrats support European co-operation when it comes to tackling terrorism. We support the objectives of these measures. We support countries working together, sharing information and ensuring that those who engage in terrorist activity can be investigated and prosecuted wherever they may be. It need not even have been said. That is why we are going to support the first two…
I will tell the Ceann Comhairle what is also out of order. It is the fact that the Taoiseach is hell-bent on breaking a commitment given to the Irish people to pass the Nice treaty and the Lisbon treaty. Has he any recollection of the Seville declaration? Does he not feel he is a custodian of a commitment given to the Irish electorate? It is shameful that he is rolling through the breaking of the triple lock.
I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. I begin by extending our deepest sympathies and support to the English family in County Waterford; Kim, Philip, their sons Callum and Jayden and the two children who remain in hospital. I agree this has to be a watershed moment for which we finally as a State collectively agree to get in the face of those who are perpetuating violence, intimidation and terror in com…
2. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to his previous evidence to the Oireachtas justice committee concerning the number of providers arising from the cancellation of pre-contract accommodation agreements, and in light of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report identifying legal proceedings involving five providers, to account for the difference between those fi…
That leaves us in a difficult position because we are talking about a serious amount of public money, which has not been accounted for and we cannot find. We had a back and forth about this on 3 March in the justice committee. I asked the Minister a number of questions and some discrepancies remain in his answers. I asked at that meeting if there was a contingent liability and the Minister said he did not believe the…
What the Minister told the committee and the public, in his own words, is that there are be €120 million of savings. Clearly, that will not be the case. This comes back to a significant cost to the public, paid for by the Exchequer. While people may be suing the Minister, the costs are borne by the public and we have a right to know what those costs are, based on bad agreements, which we never went into.
It is impor…
11. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if any amendments to SI 303 of 2026 have been made to bring his recently announced changes to the legal aid scheme into force. [70647/26]
Have any amendments been made to the payment structure of SI 303 of 2026? If they have been made to bring these recently announced changes into line, this obviously pertains to the changes to the legal aid scheme.
To be clear, the Minister has not actually changed the statutory instrument to reflect the concessions. That has not happened yet.
That is interesting but I want to focus on the other point that the Minister made. He has made this point before about legal aid certificates being given out. I think he said 2,000 there.
Some 2,400. The Minister also knows that a legal aid certificate can be issued without a solicitor being present. He knows that certificates are often issued without a solicitor being present and that judges were granting legal aid to some unrepresented defendants, despite there being no solicitor named on the certificate. That means that the certificate may have been given. How many of those 2,400 certificates have …
There is absolutely no way one can look at our court system at the moment and think it is working effectively. I am not even going to go into the ins and outs of where I think the Minister is right or wrong. We are at a point where there are industrial relations disputes across the country. Every time a Minister or a union takes to a platform, they encourage the other side to get around the table and negotiate. I can…
On the six occasions, solicitors in the court are the only ones not being paid.
It has not been changed.
You did not change it.
There were three.
There were three instances.
It is not.
I read an article in the Irish Independent this morning that focused on the winners and losers of the budget. The first line of the article came from an anonymous Minister who said that the best metric of a good budget is that it is forgotten by lunchtime on Wednesday. I think that is an absolute shame. It is indicative of the absence of ambition from the Government that it would seek to advance a position that a goo…
I thank Deputy Whitmore for all the work she does in this area. The Minister of State ended her contribution saying the Government countermotion "more accurately reflects the reality". I begin with a simple premise. There are 323,000 households in arrears on their electricity bills in Ireland today. There are people struggling to pay their rent and their bills. There are people who are terrified about those bills com…
The Social Democrats will be supporting the Bill. Before we get into the detail of it, it is worth reminding ourselves of what we are actually trying to protect here. Strategic lawsuits against public participation make the consequences of speaking out so expensive, stressful and prolonged that eventually people decide that it is simply safer not to speak at all. The people most exposed are often precisely the people…
Our party will support Ireland opting into the Council decision on signing the conclusion of the agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Korea on the transfer of passenger name record data. Co-operation in the fight against serious crime and terrorism is clearly necessary, and we realise the important role that data plays in supporting investigations into serious crime and terrorism. Ireland already …