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Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Oh God, no.

Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage (24 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I want to begin by commending my colleagues in the Labour Party - Senator Bacik in particular - for drafting this Bill. Sinn Féin is very happy to support the Bill this evening. I have to start with what is perhaps a negative on the commentary from the Minister of State. It is not so much on the detail, because in fairness, it is okay to express those concerns. The word that worried...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome this morning's decision by the Supreme Court effectively declaring the ban on asylum seekers from working to be unconstitutional.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: A Burmese man who spent eight years in direct provision has won his Supreme Court appeal over the legal ban preventing him from working. The court has adjourned the matter for six months to allow the Legislature to consider the matter. According to Mr. Justice O'Donnell, “This damage to the individual’s’ self worth and sense of themselves, is exactly the damage which...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Last week, we saw horrific reports from the Mosney direct provision accommodation centre whereby residents were being sold out-of-date food for consumption - chicken meat that was two months out of date - leading to food poisoning.The residents of Mosney are being forced into a system of segregated shopping rather than being allowed buy food at a regular shop like everyone else. There is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I want to second Senator Conway-Walsh's proposal. Apologies for-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Senator Conway-Walsh's amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: How?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Deputy Alan Kelly, yes?

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister. The mid-term capital review is, in Sinn Féin's view, a complete misnomer, as it implies that there was a plan to review in the first place. There was not. In 2015, the Government simply cobbled together several projects already under way and repackaged them as a five-year plan. Now, two years later, the Government is scrambling to make it look like it is...

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: To be fair, we have been calling for this for years. It is embarrassing for Senator Kieran O'Donnell to have to admit that six years into a Government he supports, there is still no commitment for the M20 project. A senior businessperson in Limerick told me that if we get approval later this year, it will be ten years - a decade - before that road is in place. That is the record and I have...

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Fine Gael is too right wing for Senator McDowell now.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is because we have been in crisis for the past six years.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Yes, but we pointed out the weaknesses in the plan.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: It is a free market plan.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is not what I said. The Minister did not listen to me.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Airports (31 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: It is always nice to see the Minister of State and he knows he is always welcome here. He is a fine man, in my books, apart from his politics.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Airports (31 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I am disappointed the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, once again, has chosen not to be here.