Paul Gogarty

Intent: To ensure we rebalance the economy away from our dependence of FDI businesses by scaling domestic businesses

Details: Indigenous enterprise policy

Intent: Increase political stakeholders’ understanding of Dublin Airport’s development needs and garner support for infrastructure or policy decisions (by experiencing projects first-hand).

Details: Email invitation sent for political Stakeholder briefing and tour at Dublin Airport. (Subsequently event did not take place)

Intent: To communicate local winners of the SFA's annual National Small Business Award.

Details: SFA National Small Business Awards

Intent: To request amendments to the International Protection Bill 2026

Details: International Protection Bill 2026

Intent: Lobby to help prevent the rise in family homelessness by increasing housing assistance payments in line with market rents and increasing funding for tenant-in-situ scheme.::Lobby to ensure the inclusion of one-parent families as a named group in government’s new Child & Family Homelessness Action Plan.

Details: Hosted a briefing in AV Room of Leinster House to discuss critical issues impacting one-parent families across the country.

Intent: Lobby for greater out-of-court supports for separated parents to help avoid adversarial proceedings in the family courts.::Lobby for improved funding for specialist services providing supports to separated families and those experiencing domestic abuse and coercive control

Details: Hosted a briefing in AV Room of Leinster House to discuss critical issues impacting one-parent families across the country.

Intent: Request a move from a “work-activation” government approach for lone parents on social protection to an evidence-based “education-first” one. This would address high levels of in-work poverty and create long-term savings for government, along with financial security for families.::Extend Jobseekers Transitional Payment for lone parents until their youngest child is 18.

Details: Hosted a briefing in AV Room of Leinster House to discuss critical issues impacting one-parent families across the country.

Intent: Extend the Jobseekers Transitional Payment until the youngest child turns eighteen.

Details: Hosted a briefing in AV Room of Leinster House to discuss critical issues impacting one-parent families across the country.

Intent: The correspondence warned the Bill could push adult smokers back to cigarettes and fuel an illegal market. Over 350,000 adults vape in Ireland, with more than half having quit smoking entirely, yet the Bill would effectively ban the flavours used by 97% of adult vapers. International experience shows bans drive black markets, increase smoking relapse, and undermine compliant Irish businesses without reducing youth access.

Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association briefed Deputies ahead of the Second Stage debate on the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026. The RRPA supports measures to reduce youth uptake, strengthen age-of-sale enforcement and restrict marketing to minors, ... Read more

Intent: To secure the tabling of a Parliamentary Question seeking official data on international protection applications, decision outcomes (first instance and appeal), and timeframes for final decisions within 12 months.

Details: Request to TD Paul Gogarty to submit a Parliamentary Question to the Minister for Justice (Jim O'Callaghan) or Minister of State (Colm Brophy) regarding international protection statistics between 2020 and 2025, including application numbers, decision outcomes, and processing times.