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- Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I apologise for being late.
- Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am not going to repeat what has already been said but I will make a couple of additional points. I welcome the very constructive contributions from Senators on all sides. This debate is a demonstration of this House working at its best, where rather than scoring points, my party is trying to come up with constructive proposals. I acknowledge that the Minister has recognised that by not...
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I shall be brief. She already has plenty of questions to answer and I shall add a few more. I have huge admiration for the work that the Minister is doing at the moment and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say so. My first question is difficult but I must be direct. How can the Minister have confidence in a Taoiseach who, by his own...
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Does the Minister have confidence in the Taoiseach given that he has made up conversations that never happened? It is a fair question.
- Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That does not sound very confident but it does sound very honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I have a spare Tesco workers support badge if anyone wants one. I only have one left but it is no problem: it is here if someone wants it. The obvious question is are the witnesses in denial. It is a little like last week, when we had a panel of people saying there is no real problem and that very few people are employed on precarious work. Yet all of us, I think, from across the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is no problem. I am simply stating for the record that I know from my previous job how widespread these types of contracts are. To be frank with the witnesses, it does them no credibility whatsoever to come in here and effectively say there is not really a problem because we know there is. We may differ as to what the solutions are, but to come in here and tell us it is not a problem...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: How does Mr. Fenn justify his organisation refusing to engage with a joint labour committee, JLC, given that his organisation is receiving a subsidy of over €600 million per year in VAT? It refuses to use the industrial relations machinery of the State to protect some of the lowest paid and most vulnerable workers in its industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is not the question I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes, I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Please do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: The organisation is happy to take the subsidy of €600 million per year from taxpayers, but God forbid it utilises the joint labour committee that the last Government established.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am just making the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I apologise for missing the presentations. It has been a manic day. I have read the submissions and I thank the witnesses for them. Mr. Jennings has suggested that workers could use the Workplace Relations Commission as a vehicle in these circumstances. That point was made in a previous session as well. I would like to mention the case of a person who has been working in a hotel in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I come from a trade union background. The witnesses might have noticed my Tesco badge. I refer to a casual employee on a typical contract whose hours are communicated to him or her by means of a departmental rota. I put it to the witnesses that there is no existing legislation on which the employee can rely to correct this anomaly and get some certainty. Having worked in the hotel for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is not vague. It is very specific. It is exactly as I have described it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is a standard contract. I could have picked any hotel in Limerick that is using these contracts at the moment. The use of such contracts forms the basis of the hotel model that exists at present. That is just how it is. On which grounds could a case be taken in this instance under the equality legislation mentioned by Mr. Smyth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I accept that Mr. Smyth is a HR professional, but I suggest with respect that what he is saying is in no way practicable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I have given a typical example.