Results 401-420 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: On a point of order, is it not five minutes?

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I am just conscious of my colleague.

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Enterprise Support Schemes (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State. I also welcome representatives of ConnectIreland who have time to attend the Chamber this morning. The matter relates to ConnectIreland and the Global Irish Forum which was set up with great fanfare in 2011. There was a general feeling of goodwill towards this initiative because it made sense to use our global network to create jobs and rebuild the economy....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Enterprise Support Schemes (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State for his response and I appreciate that he is representing the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, but a couple of points puzzle me. He stated that no ultimate decision had been taken, but one has been taken to close ConnectIreland. With all due respect, I cannot see the reasoning behind that. The closest that we have to an explanation is found in a previous...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Enterprise Support Schemes (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: The average cost of a ConnectIreland job is €4,000.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Enterprise Support Schemes (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: For the life of me, I cannot understand why it is being closed down. It has been successful. Given that there was clearly a divergence in the figures, surely the sensible course of action would have been to continue with ConnectIreland, understand where the divergence occurred and at that point decide on whether to continue the project or give the reasons for closing it. However, this...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I second the amendment proposed by Senator Ó Clochartaigh to the Order of Business. I refer to the Hastings dispute where a group of workers has been out on the picket line in all weathers for six weeks. I am glad to report that there was a tremendously successful march in Westport last Saturday. My colleague, Senator Conway-Walsh, was there, as was I. There was tremendous support...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Who owns the group?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: It has been an awful week. Like all of my colleagues, I extend our sympathies to the families of the crew of Helicopter Rescue 116, to the family of Ryan McBride, to the Haughey family and, of course, to the family of our comrade Martin McGuinness. I will speak on Martin later and I appreciate the time given by the Leader in that respect. I acknowledge the tremendous victory of the SIPTU...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Yes.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act to provide for additional protections for employees in the service sector to ensure they receive tips or gratuities paid by customers and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I am glad that Senator Coffey mentioned ideology because there is an ideological problem at the heart of the Government. In the worst of times in this country we built public housing, through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I do not often compliment Fianna Fáil but it was largely responsible for that public housing. Fine Gael has never been comfortable with the idea of providing homes for...

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: The problem is in the figures.

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: We have costed proposals. The Minister of State has rejected them.

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: What about the tax cuts for the rich? There is no problem there.

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is the Minister of State's ideology.

Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I only want to add a few comments. An awful lot has already been said. Like many people, I got my first impressions of Martin McGuinness from his appearances on television, in particular that strange time which we may have forgotten when we could see but not hear him on television and an actor's voice spoke for him. Those were strange times both here and in Britain where I found that was...