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Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 16:In page 24, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(h) provide that the admission policy of a second level school that provides education through the medium of Irish may provide for the inclusion of students that have attended a primary school that provides education through the medium of Irish,". The idea behind this quite self-explanatory amendment is...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: Yes.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I put on record our party's full support of this amendment because we are a republican party. We spoke about ideology earlier and we have an ideological divide. There is something fundamentally offensive about stitching in this protection in order that those who go to private schools can ensure the line all the way through.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: Absolutely. Although I did not mean it in a personal sense, and I hope the Minister knows that, the last day I asked how many members of the Cabinet had private education. As somebody who is still relatively new to here, it strikes me when I meet senior people in the Government or senior civil servants that they did not go to the sort of schools I attended. People who attended fee-paying...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: It is not required and no damage would be done if the provision was removed. It would enhance the Bill in a significant way. This is class politics. It is about those people who have the privilege of going to private schools and ensuring they maintain the privilege and the line of succession. If that is the case - it is - the Government should be honest and say so. It is about class and...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I have a brief point on the Defence Forces. The best way we can help them is to grant them the right to collective bargaining, a right that was upheld by the European Committee of Social Rights. If Fine Gael Senators are serious about helping the Defence Forces they should call on their own Government to support collective bargaining rights. I want to raise another issue with regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Employment Equality Act Order: Minister for Education and Skills (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister for coming in. I am conscious of time. I understand the need for this measure in the current context. As the Minister will be aware, Sinn Féin has a distinct policy calling for the complete separation of church and State. However, we understand that we cannot start from here, so we support this particular move. However, I want to ask the Minister about a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Employment Equality Act Order: Minister for Education and Skills (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister for the response. I am genuinely disappointed. Alongside colleagues who campaigned in the recent referendum, I came across many teachers on the pro-choice side who expressed concern about the fact that they could be discriminated against because they happened to be working in Catholic schools, because the vast majority of schools are Catholic schools. That issue must be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Employment Equality Act Order: Minister for Education and Skills (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Employment Equality Act Order: Minister for Education and Skills (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I ask that the Minister and the officials take the point on board and consider it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Employment Equality Act Order: Minister for Education and Skills (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I thank the delegates for their presentations. With Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Jan O'Sullivan and Senator Lynn Ruane, I was a member of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, of which a key ancillary recommendation concerned the need for a consistent programme of sex education, regardless of school ethos. I do not see how that can sit within the remit of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I will follow up on the point as well, if I may.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: We are just getting to the nub of it. I can almost accept what both speakers said, which is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: Okay. The content is delivered but how it is delivered is key. If one takes an issue like contraception, if it is delivered in a way that says this is not the right thing to do, it is going to make a crucial difference. To be frank, that is what the Catholic ethos teaches us, namely, that it is not the right thing to do. In terms of what we are trying to develop, namely, a comprehensive,...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: I have five minutes to get a cup of tea.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: “The dream is dying” declared Boris Johnson yesterday in his resignation letter to Theresa May. It reminded me of the old Waterboys Song “England is dying”, from which it is worth quoting a couple of lines. It is particularly apt when one thinks of Boris:Still he sings an empire song, Still he keeps his navy strong, And he sticks his flag where it ill belongs,...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: A sos between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. would be good.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Paul Gavan: Senator Murnane O'Connor is right.