Results 321-340 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I will address that point directly. All of this person's colleagues are employed on exactly the same contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I will ask the question again. I will be honest. I have used the equality legislation. It does not apply in this case because everyone on one of these contracts is treated equally unfairly. There are no grounds for discrimination from which to choose. I ask Mr. Smyth again to state what legislation is available to deal with this case right now. I am making this point in support of my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Which is not enforceable.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I want to address Senator Hopkins's concerns regarding the National Rehabilitation Hospital. One has to ask the question. Who is in charge of asylum? It is her party's Minister for Health that is closing hospital beds. It is bizarre that she is raising an issue when it is her party's Minister who is doing the damage. It is equally bizarre at a time when there is an unprecedented crisis in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I do not appreciate hearing "Oh dear God. This is a serious issue that needs action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has taken no action to date. I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister to come into the House in order that we can debate this issue. We need the Government to embrace the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the apartheid Israeli state. There is no room for ifs and buts in this regard. We were very clear regarding South Africa...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: They go through Shannon Airport.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Should we stop trying to bomb them?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Leader is not doing so. He is just insulting us. That is all he is doing. The Leader is not dealing with the issues at all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: So it does.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Leader is trying to defend the indefensible.