Results 881-900 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is no surprise to hear the red scare tactics from across the Chamber. Fine Gael has been doing that since the 1920s.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am being told I am arrogant by a man standing up and waving his fingers, and pointing them.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am just trying to think of who Senator Butler reminds me of. He reminds me of Mussolini. Did he used to look like Senator Butler and stand up and point fingers as well?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: In fairness, Senator Butler has the same-----
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I had better begin to summarise. It upsets Fine Gael to hear the truth that it is a Thatcherite party, that that is what it does, that is what it did. It is a pity the Labour Party is not here to at least own up to the fact that it was the champion of privatising the job services, but here is the real point. Ordinary decent people are the victims of this policy and we deserve to do much...
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: To be fair, I would-----
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: We know the story. When one does not have an argument, one plays the man.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is fine.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for allowing me time this evening. I commend our colleagues for raising this issue of JobPath and for raising the shameful privatisation of the employment services. Each of us knows how this service is continuing to fail ordinary people every day. We can and must do better.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am sorry that they have had to put up with some of the nonsense today. I wish to clarify a point before I begin. The Chairman will know, as indeed will Senator Buttimer, that I always find it really hard to agree with the Fine Gael Party on pretty much most things.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: Deputy O'Brien is correct, pretty much everything, but I have full faith in Senator Catherine Noone as Chairman. I see her each week trying to do her best in very difficult circumstances. While we are on opposite sides politically, I could not in any way criticise how she has chaired these meetings each week. It is important that is noted because of these constant attempts by a small...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: Will Dr. Henchion expand on that please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: My final question, which I know has been dealt with to a degree, will be brief. I am struck by the references to abortion pills and how access to these pills is increasingly widespread. It strikes me as being completely bizarre that collectively we can ignore that. Is that not bizarre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Chairman. I thank Ms Donlon for coming to the committee today and for her presentation. My first question relates to the HSE crisis pregnancy website. It states that it has three mandates, one of which is "A reduction in the number of women with crisis pregnancies who opt for abortion by offering services and support which make other options more attractive". I am a little...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank Ms Donlon for that answer. I accept what she has said but I do see a contradiction in what the witness has said and what is on the website. I wish to flag this. The website certainly suggests directive counselling to some degree. I am conscious of time and I shall move on. There is lots of really good information in the presentation and I thank Ms Donlon for that. Considering...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: Has the crisis pregnancy programme received any complaints regarding the advice given to women, and if so will Ms Donlon give the committee some details on what sorts of complaints have been made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: On that last point, I know it is implied but I wish to make it clear, those rogue agencies referred to by Ms Donlon are the agencies that try to persuade women not to have a termination.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the witness very much.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: I second Senator Warfield's proposed amendment to the Order of Business, namely, for No. 18 to be taken before No. 1. I commend Senator Marie Louise O'Donnell. We really have to address this issue of Seanad reform. It is strange so many of us are calling for it, yet we do not seem to be going anywhere with it as a project. Today, a group of men, the survivors of sexual abuse at Creagh...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Gavan: There is no reason for this. I do not believe anybody on this side of the House came in with the intention of denying these people justice. The Government side has the power to address this issue. There can be no excuse for not addressing it. As a matter of urgency, will the Leader bring the Minister for Justice and Equality into the House? I know she will be busy for the next couple of...