Results 621-640 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Airports (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: I take your point, a Chathaoirligh. I want to raise the issue of Shannon Airport, which has confirmed it is introducing a range of cost-cutting measures which will include reducing the status of the airport and restricting the number of larger airlines transiting through the airport. Management at the airport met with the three unions representing staff a few weeks back to inform them of the...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Airports (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: May I comment?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Airports (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I shall be very brief. I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I am not encouraged by it because he did not address two of my key points. First, the promise of jobs in the Shannon area that have not materialised and, second, Shannon Airport no longer being able to accept aircraft on diversion flights, which is integral to the reputation of Shannon and its...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: I blame Fine Gael.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is what privatisation does.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: First, I second the amendment by my colleague, Senator Mac Lochlainn. It is very important. I believe everyone would accept that we have acted very honourably in respect of this issue. We would hope for that to be recognised. I was not planning to speak, but I wish to offer my words of support to my colleagues in the Labour Party with regard to their amendment today. Regardless of our...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: Here are billions that are available and yet it looks as if the Fine Gael Party is intent, with its rightward drift, on ensuring none of those projects will be fulfilled. We hear the issue of the M20 motorway quite rightly being raised again today. I would hope that, in the interests of recognising that this House has a role to play in debating this, we would have a debate on it. Frankly,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: The austerity treaty.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: Will the Government do that by itself?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: The "Bankers' Party".
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: And the Seanie economics.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Paul Gavan: My point related to supporting our colleagues in terms of the AIB motion. That is fine. Apologies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
Paul Gavan: I welcome the news that the Committee on Education and Skills will recommend an end to the so-called baptism barrier. This good news is long overdue. I was disappointed that on the Commencement this morning, the Minister confirmed he did not propose to introduce any change on the matter of religious denomination on Committee Stage of the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill. This is a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Leader needs to withdraw that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2017)
Paul Gavan: I will not deal with judicial appointments apart from saying that all of us need to do a little better. The public is looking on this issue with wonder. The air of desperation around Deputy Micheál Martin in recent days does not reflect well on Fianna Fáil. We can all do better on that issue. A number of my Sinn Féin colleagues met representatives from the Union of Students...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2017)
Paul Gavan: Our policy is to keep the corporation tax rate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Paul Gavan: I seek leave to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act to end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who have attained the age of 16 and for those entering their first two years of employment, which is No. 13 on the Seanad Order Paper.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes. A number of us had a very good engagement last Thursday with the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO. Like their colleagues in the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, they made a very cogent and persuasive case for additional funding for national schools in particular. I was shocked to learn of the contrast between the subsidy per pupil at national school level and the subsidy...