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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Gavan: I have real concerns in relation to this White Paper. Mr. Moore has already referenced the €8 billion from the EU defence budget and a further €10 billion from the start-up entrepreneur programme, STEP. There are also the reinforcements of the European Defence Agency, EDA, through the Common Procurement Act, which I think has approximately €300 million. It does not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Gavan: There is the issue of the Israeli-sponsored Horizon Europe work. To me, it is shocking that ten universities here are actively helping the Israeli Government even while it is engaging in genocide. Surely, that is entirely unacceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Gavan: We are talking about a recognised apartheid state.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Gavan: It needs to be addressed.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: As the Acting Leader knows, yesterday was May Day, a day of celebration and solidarity for workers and a day to recognise the achievements of our trade union movement. One of the most important sectors of our economy is construction, where unions, including my own union of SIPTU, have fought valiantly to establish a sectoral employment order. This is an order to underpin rates of pay and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): “(1A) Where a European Works Council stands established pursuant to the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996 in relation to the employment in which it is proposed to create...
- Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I appreciate the Minister of State's response. I acknowledge, in fairness, that whenever I have engaged with him, he has always given me a thoughtful response and engaged in a meaningful way. I do not often say such things but I do so now to be fair to him. However, I genuinely disagree with him on this issue. The fundamental point is that EWCs are not allowed to operate here in the same...
- Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, after line 32, to insert the following: "Amendment of Act of 2014 28. The Act of 2014 is amended by the insertion of the following sections after section 621: "Power of the Court to return assets which have been improperly transferred 621A. (1) The court has the following power where, on the application of the Minister or the liquidator and/or...
- Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I endorse everything my colleague Senator Sherlock said. Given that we have waited so long for the Bill, this is a missed opportunity. It has been years in the making. There is a lack of ambition or perhaps an ideological objection. Ultimately, this comes down to whether the Government believes trade unions are good and should be valued and whether collective agreements should be valued....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: As the Cathaoirleach knows, I am spending quite a bit of time in Cork at the moment and last week I had a very good conversation with one of the local taxi drivers there. He was telling me about how tough it is in the industry at the minute, of the huge hours they have to work, issues, unfortunately sometimes, of antisocial behaviour and the fact that it is very hard to get younger drivers...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I will speak about the issue of airports in the west of Ireland. I was at Shannon Airport last week. It is good to see the car park there full again. However, there is still plenty of unused capacity at Shannon and Cork airports, and there is certainly potential capacity at Kerry Airport, yet 88% of all flights that leave this island do so from the east coast. We know all the challenges...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Chair. It is good to see the Minister. I am so frustrated in relation to this issue and it is perhaps because this started for me in 2009, when I was a SIPTU official, and the then Fianna Fáil Government decided to shut down Nenagh hospital's accident and emergency department. We then saw the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government ignore it for the next five years. I want to...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The question I asked the Minister was if he accepts that UHL was in crisis when he took office in 2020? It is a question requiring a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister has still not answered the question, though. A simple "Yes" or "No" will suffice.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister has not.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister will not even answer a straight "Yes" or "No" question. I will say it for the Cathaoirleach. I believe UHL was in deep crisis in 2020 and has been now for several years. The hospital trolley figures in 2020, and I am quoting the figures given by the INMO, which the Minister accepted when he was in the Opposition but does not seem to accept any more, were that 9,875 patients...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister cited Waterford earlier. The difference is that it has three model 3 hospitals around it, whereas Limerick does not have any. This issue has been brought to the attention of the Minister year after year, and only now, after four years, has he decided we need the review that we and the Mid-West Hospital Campaign group have been telling him we need for years.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Between 2019 and 2023, 239 patients died on trolleys.