Results 701-720 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: No. Their workers. They had no documentation whatsoever according to the WRC report, and we will hear from the WRC later today. Some of the witnesses seem to be in denial. Will they explain to me how that could be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am glad Mr. Murphy raised the issue of logbooks - fair play to him for raising it - because I see that last year, 2016, 116 logbooks were returned to the Marine Survey Office, MSO, in the first six months and just 60 in the second six months. Again, Mr. Murphy represents these fishers. Will he explain to me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am dealing with facts. We need to take the emotion out of this and deal with facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I have two questions, and I will finish at that point. Why do the witnesses not acknowledge the problem to which the facts clearly point regarding a large number of non-EEA workers? The follow-on question is that for the sake of their industry and given that they are now facing 19 claims of trafficking, some of which information has already gone to the Garda and the rest is on its way, why...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Mr. Murphy is not listening. I never said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Mr. Conway needs to rethink that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: By your side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: And the Defence Forces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Perhaps the witness could look at this letter. This is a letter from the European Union sectoral social dialogue committee, signed by both the employer's organisation of fishers and the worker's organisation, and it agrees that migrant fishers are subject to, I quote, "Abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, retention of identity...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Is there any report from the visit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a couple of questions for Mr. Hogan. I note that the International Transport Workers Federation, ITF, was in contact with him and sent him three reports on its inspections in May, June and August 2016. I understand from Ken Fleming, Jon Whitlow and Pádraig Yeates of the ITF - Mr. Yeates is in attendance today - that when they met...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: No problem. My second question relates to the horrific experience meted out to a worker called Ebo Turkson. I have read a Garda statement which details the most horrific circumstances of this case. Ken Fleming has spoken about the fact that this guy was put into a survival suit and dumped into the sea, having previously been subjected to horrific abuse. For example, he was called a "black...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am quoting from a Garda statement that was made on behalf of Ebo Turkson. It was taken on 19 May 2017. I am happy to share it with anybody who would like to see it. I believe Mr. Hogan's organisation followed up on the actual vessel. My point is that when the ITF wrote to Mr. Hogan to ask him to ask him for legitimate information, he replied by sending a letter that I can only describe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is fair enough, unless Mr. Hogan printed them off again.