Results 301-320 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I want to raise two issues. First, I welcome the UK Supreme Court ruling relating to the flag protests that went on for months and that affected people living in the Short Strand. Unfortunately, the PSNI chose not to stop the protests going through. I am pleased that the UK Supreme Court found that the police service had the power to stop them and that it should have done so. I commend...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: A round of applause, please.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Do not let him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: God help us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I wish to raise an issue with Tesco. As some Senators will know Tesco is Ireland's largest private employer, employing more than 11,000 staff. Unfortunately, Tesco has also decided to go down the road of union busting. It has hired a specialist firm of lawyers who engage in union busting as a career. It is trying to drive Mandate, a fine trade union, out of Tesco. We know this because...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: This is a never-ending lecture.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: We learned the real facts on Wednesday night.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is why they are in America and Britain.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: There is a mandate to ballot.
- Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Tánaiste is very welcome. Sinn Féin welcomes publication of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 which, if enacted, will enable the courts to award periodic payment orders, PPOs, to compensate injured victims in cases of catastrophic injury where long-term permanent care is required instead of awarding lump sums in damages, as is the norm in these cases. The Bill arose...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I raise again the issue of Tesco, which I raised yesterday on the Order of Business. Senators received further correspondence from the company yesterday evening. I have just left a meeting with Mandate across the road and, as an experienced trade unionist, I am genuinely shocked by what I heard at first hand from Mandate members about the levels of intimidation meted out to them.People have...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: We are against the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Hear hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I begin by sending out greetings of solidarity on behalf of my party, Sinn Féin, to the Tesco workers who are on strike today. They are striking for decency and respect at work. I hope that everyone in the Chamber will join with me in saluting their courage today. I was at another picket line this morning and it is one that has not reached the headlines for some reason. The picket...
- 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.