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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)
Paul Gavan: Right now, with this new increase, I think we are at about 51.9% of the median wage. That leaves us a hell of a way to go to doing it in four years. How does the commission see that happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)
Paul Gavan: Yes, the report is very clear on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)
Paul Gavan: That has not happened in the past three years, though. I need to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)
Paul Gavan: I thank Mr. Courtney. I apologise but I have only a minute and 33 seconds, like my colleagues. What do the witnesses make of the arguments they have heard about what I regard as an overly cautious approach to raising the minimum wage? As was pointed out, it has been a pay cut in the past three years. What are the prospects of the Low Pay Commission actually delivering the living wage to...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: The Cathaoirleach may remember that just two weeks ago, I raised the shocking increase in homelessness in the State based on the July figures. Unfortunately, we saw the August figures on Friday and they are truly shocking, with 10,805 people who are homeless. That is an increase of 237 on the previous month. That number includes 3,220 children, which is an increase of 83, and 1,483...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, after line 36, to insert the following: “Report on New Arrangements to Borrow intersection with existing obligations 11.The Minister shall, within 24 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas outlining how he or she has sought to ensure that any conditionalities attached to credit provided through the NAB...
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, after line 36, to insert the following: “Report on conditionalities attached to credit provided under New Arrangements to Borrow 11. The Minister shall, within 24 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas outlining how he or she has sought to ensure that conditionalities attached to credit provided...
- Seanad: Passport Office: Motion (5 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is very welcome. I got my first passport in 1988. I did not get it in Ireland but in London. I had been forced to emigrate like so many more people at that time. It meant an awful lot to me that I could access an Irish passport as a London-Irish citizen by going to my embassy. It was so long ago I was travelling through a country that no longer exists, Yugoslavia. I...
- Seanad: Passport Office: Motion (5 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: I made most of my main points before the interruption for the vote. Like so many others here I see a clear case for opening a passport office in the Six Counties. I know many people, particularly from the North, are watching this debate. They will be very disappointed to hear a Fianna Fáil Minister of State disagree with people from so many parties in the Chamber. As I was saying,...
- Seanad: Passport Office: Motion (5 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: This morning I met a wide-ranging group of community employment supervisors who, because of their plight, had taken the time to come here to meet Sinn Féin. I know the acting leader is very familiar with this because, unfortunately, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Governments have refused to give any pay increase to these workers for 14 years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: They have no pensions. The starting rates of pay for an assistant community employment supervisor is €11.01. It will actually be less than the minimum wage come the beginning of next year. What is most regrettable is that government after government has taken the line handed to it by the Civil Service and repeated it parrot like, that the State is not the employer and that it is up...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: Last week we had the budget. I think the Government told us it spent approximately €11 billion. Fair play. The issue with the community employment supervisors would take a fraction of a fraction of that money to resolve. Once again Government Deputies and, unfortunately, Senators decided they would not do this. This is a political choice. This is the point I made to community...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: It was not.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: Talk to the community employment supervisors. It was a gratuity. It was pointless.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: They have no pension.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: It is good to see the Tánaiste. He is very welcome. I want to raise the issue of European work councils. As the Tánaiste knows, because this has been an ongoing issue in his Department for several years, there have been many complaints over the failure of the Irish Government to correctly transpose the EU directive on European work councils. In essence, workers cannot access the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Paul Gavan: Directly from the European Commission.