Results 1-14 of 14 for immigration speaker:Paul Gavan

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...out in the directive and update the code of practice in determining employment status, which is about as clear as mud at the moment, or will the Government continue to ignore these workers, many of whom are immigrant students?

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...public services. The reality is that they were entirely foreseeable and preventable. They were created by the policies of the Government and its predecessors. The Taoiseach has spoken about managing immigration, but what we need is an efficient system that works, fulfils our humanitarian obligations and helps with the betterment of our society. This means asylum applications must be...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Gavan: ...for three years. It is a horrific story. Kilkenny County Council did write back and responded very positively to me. It took the initiative, working with Migrant Rights Centre Ireland and the Immigration Council of Ireland, to ensure the man was not homeless at Christmas. In fairness to the council, it did write and deal with the case appropriately. It acknowledged that providing an...

Seanad: Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: ...globe is in the middle of a once in 1,000 years pandemic. The Bill is compassionate, it respects health protection measures and it is practical. It is not intended as a long-term policy change to immigration legislation, it is simply putting protections in place that will last only for as long as the emergency legislation dealing with the pandemic is in place. It recognises the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: ...know, has today scuppered the EU budget. I have personal experience of Fidesz. I met a number of its Government Ministers two years ago when they were cracking jokes about the final solution in the context of immigrant children. I went to see two teenage children, the same age as my own, who had been imprisoned in a cage for a year without ever being let out. I need to ask the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Gavan: ...these people in the hope that such is the best way to deal with them. It absolutely is not. The yellow vest movement, in particular, is far right, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-vaccination, anti-immigrant and dangerous. It is incumbent on us all to unite on this issue. We can differ on lots of things but we must be in agreement that these people are a danger to democratic politics in...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (10 Sep 2020)

Paul Gavan: ...labour thanks to the disgraceful work permit system operating by the Government. They can pay poverty wages. They can sack anyone who dares to join a trade union. They can threaten their largely immigrant workforce with impunity and with the fact that if they do not like the terms and conditions on offer, the factory will get another planeload of workers in to replace them. That is an...

Seanad: Free Education (Prohibition of Fees and Charges) Bill 2018: Second Stage (8 May 2019)

Paul Gavan: ...evening, and not to prop up these parties even if it takes a little longer to get the change we need. For too long we have put up with conservative politics in this country and what it has led to is inequality, mass immigration and failure, not just once but several times. I am delighted that, to be fair, the Bill will not be opposed and I commend my colleagues in the Labour Party on...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: ...minute of one day. This is being implemented by the Fidesz party, which is detaining children daily, and they will say it with pride. I ask for an urgent debate on the issue. The detention of immigrant children is a crime against humanity and we need voices from our Government to condemn it in the strongest possible terms. I need to understand why Fine Gael is prepared to sit in the...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (23 May 2018)

Paul Gavan: ...domination by one racial group over any other racial group". As Senator Lawlor said, in what was a fine speech, that is exactly what is happening and the Minister of State knows this.Under Israel's immigration policy, it is possible for all Jews to emigrate to Israel but Palestinians are refused any right of return. There are 5 million Palestinian refugees as a direct result of a...

Seanad: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Dec 2017)

Paul Gavan: ...fully that our amendment is out of order. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, to the House. We would argue that this Bill is technical in nature. It makes clear citizenship and immigration rules for diplomatic staff and consular staff and their private staff by amending the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 and the Immigration Act 2004. However, while we supported...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Gavan: ...says:Do not tell me that direct provision and being the only EU country, apart from Lithuania, that bans asylum seekers from working is the only solution the Irish can come up with to control the immigration of persecuted people from poor countries. Surely you can come up with a kinder, better way? Imagine your child going to another country only to be locked away in camps with endless...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Health Services (30 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: ...not related to funding. According to Shannondoc, the reduction in service is as a result of the inability to attract doctors to work in rural areas combined with a lack of available locums. Changes in immigration law in 2015 have also been cited as making it unattractive for locums. The long-standing failure to complete negotiations for a new GP contract has also been cited. With the...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Gavan: ...US President-elect Donald Trump's policies in some mainstream media outlets now. They would have us believe that his calls for the indiscriminate deportation of minority communities are simply new, sensible and strategic immigration controls, and that accusations of racism are simply lefty histrionics. The Irish media of the 1930s was similarly pro-Franco. The year before the passing of...