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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: If you are lucky.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: I agree with everything the Chair said. My last comment is that the banks have made clear that they do not want anyone going into their branches. They are effectively turning us all away and making it a really unpleasant-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: Exactly. They make it a really unpleasant experience to try to get in. It is not the fault of the staff. In fact, there are too few staff in bank branches. I cannot imagine how much more difficult it must be for members of the Traveller community. We need to call the banks to account over it. I am grateful for the presentations and thank the witnesses for their time today.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: I want to begin by joining with others in offering my condolences and those of my party to the family of Mr. John Connor. The restoration of the Executive and Assembly is very good news for all of the people of Ireland. It allows for the full operation of the Good Friday Agreement and all its interlocking institutions, especially the all-island North-South institutions. It is an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: Not at all, a Chathaoirligh, you are the finest. With regard to the Commencement matter this morning, I, like all Members, put on record my solidarity with Senator Clonan. On countless occasions, Deputy Quinlivan and I have tried to get answers in respect of University Hospital Limerick and the trolley crisis there, but we are yet to have a line Minister come to the House to deal with a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is welcome. Sinn Féin is supportive of this Bill and the EU Digital Services Act as it seeks to regulate very large online platforms and provide a more equitable online environment. The Bill aims to address illegal and harmful content. It is hoped it will also rein in the powers of big tech and give Internet users a bit more control over their digital lives....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: It is great to see our colleagues here today. They are very welcome. Sinn Féin will be supporting this Bill. I will begin by quoting a speech made by Deputy Mark Ward last year when he was speaking on this Bill in the Dáil. He said: We need to ensure that children are not groomed into crime and that they can ... be children - playing football, taking music lessons, hanging out...

Seanad: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is very welcome. The Bill is required for Ireland to participate fully in some of the institutional mechanisms available in Europe to support the people, the economy and the infrastructure of Ukraine. The Bill seeks to enable the State to take part in donor and trust funds that have been established by the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for...

Seanad: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: I want to, on behalf of not just myself but my colleagues in Sinn Féin, offer our condolences to John's family, to the Fine Gael party and in particular, Deputy Richard Bruton, who I have got to know quite well through our work together on the enterprise committee and who I have the height of respect for. There is no doubt that John Bruton made a very significant contribution to Irish...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: I was delighted to attend, with some of my colleagues from the Dáil, the momentous and historic occasion last Saturday when Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill was elected First Minister with the DUP’s Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly. With many others, I witnessed first-hand epoch-making events. It was a day like no other in Ireland’s long and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: I will briefly come in to support Senator Higgins' amendments. The reason I do so is because it is increasingly clear to me that in fact, there will be an agenda of privatisation and of outsourcing coming from the European Union. It is very clear, unfortunately. God knows the Ukrainian people have suffered enough already. It is par for the form of the European Union to attach these types...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is very welcome. I wish to express a little frustration regarding these amendments. Sinn Féin is not opposing them but we did ask for a briefing note on them. Even from what the Minister of State has just said, there is quite a lot involved here. We did not get such a briefing note. That is not a good way to go about doing business in terms of tucking these...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: That was 20 minutes ago.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: I appreciate the Minister of State setting out the detail. I think he has accepted the point that the short notice was not acceptable. Clearly those are amendments that we are very happy to support, given the housing emergency that we have across the State.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: No.