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Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Senator does not like to hear the truth, so he is interrupting.

Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: I join others in wishing Martin Murray every success for a very happy retirement. I again thank him for everything he has done for us over many years. He will be sorely missed. I offer my congratulations to those MEPs who have been elected and in particular our two colleagues from the Chamber, the Deputy Leader, Regina Doherty, and my good friend and comrade Lynn Boylan. I wish...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: It is incredible.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Former President Mary Robinson (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: I welcome former President, Mrs. Robinson. It is wonderful to have her here. Her words were inspiring and really direct. She has given us a powerful message here today. I want to address a couple of points that were made. The first one arises from the last point of my colleague, Senator Higgins. How can it be, if we are serious about addressing climate change, that there are no...

Seanad: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: Always. The Minister is welcome. I put on record Sinn Féin's support for all these amendments. It is an area I am particularly interested in and I am grateful to Senator Higgins's office for sending me the relevant video of that committee meeting. I was shocked to see confirmation in effect that Irish taxpayers' money is going to a fund which is contributing to military companies,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: Let him speak.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: I begin by offering my congratulations again to our colleagues, Senator Doherty, and my good friend, Senator Boylan. I also commend Senators Blaney and Chambers. From my experience, it was a really enjoyable campaign and very worthwhile in terms of a good life experience. The first issue I wish to raise is the appalling but really powerful documentary by “RTÉ Investigates" in...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: As always, the Minister of State is very welcome. I wish to address some of the key points in this Bill. The external oversight board, EOB, has been mentioned by almost every speaker at this point. We welcome the fact it is going to be set up on a statutory basis, but we in Sinn Féin still have issues with the Secretary General's ex officio membership on that oversight body while...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Patronage (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: It is good to see the Minister of State. I know that he, like me, recognises the tremendous contribution the Educate Together movement has made to the education system in this country. As a school patron, Educate Together operates a national network of 118 schools in Ireland, with 97 primary and 21 second-level schools catering to over 40,000 students. Educate Together schools provide a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Patronage (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: While I appreciate the Minister of State standing in today, I am very disappointed with what the statement he has been handed delivers, because it has not addressed the key issue. I have established the key issue is, without doubt, that the school ethos of Educate Together is not recognised by the Department or Bus Éireann when it comes to providing school transport places. That is the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: I want to raise the issue of Palestine and read into the record just some of the letter that was published in the Irish Examiner yesterday. It states: My name is Samia. You do not know me, but you may have seen my picture. I know that you have seen so many photos of my home and my people that it may be hard to recall one from another. But, there is one picture of me you should remember,...

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: May we get a copy of the Minister of State's speech?

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Minister is very welcome, as always. Sinn Féin is against this motion. Like others, we are disappointed that the Minister is taking it as one whole motion as opposed to giving us the opportunity to vote on individual segments. There are two segments that we would somewhat reluctantly endorse relating to the asylum and migration management regulation, AMMR, because it seems there...

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: Okay, I accept that. I do not know how many people here have been to a detention centre. I have. I saw two teenage children, who happened to be the same age as my children, on the Hungarian-Serbian border who had been kept in a cage for six months and were not let out of that cage for one minute of one day during the period. When one of the political associates on that trip, from the far...

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: That is not what I said.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: No, it is not.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Minister is completely incorrect to suggest that.

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 51: In page 50, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(c) provision under which the Authority, the Minister or both Houses of the Oireachtas may instruct the investment management provider to divest from certain portfolios where ethical issues arise,”.