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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Yes. Mr. Draghi has no view on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: My final point is that the Irish Government has adopted a banks-first policy which undermines all other policymaking concerning the banking sector. The citizens and residents of the State are not well served by this policy and indeed are often victims of it. Is the ECB happy to ignore this ongoing bailout or will it investigate it? That is my final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: It would be just fine.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: On Monday, I was in Hungary, visiting Government Ministers from the Fidesz party. They are a sister party of Fine Gael. They are both members of the European People's Party. We were there to talk about refugees and the detention of children. It was an interesting series of meetings with Government representatives. They cracked jokes about final solutions. A senior minister told us that...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The Government does not care. That is the problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The solution is to move many more people.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I did not realise there were policy differences between these two.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: It is Hungary.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Apart from sitting with fascists in the same group.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The Senator is going down that road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I thank all the witnesses for coming in. I want to start, if I may, with a quote from Tom Cronin, who appeared before the committee just a few months ago. He is a former board member of Caranua. It is important to remember the people we are talking about here and what they have gone through. Mr. Cronin said:What happened to us as children was a shame on the nation but what has been done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The Chair is right and I apologise. It is a fair point and I withdraw that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I accept that. Many applicants to the fund will not have read the Act or the appeals officer's report. They will not know, therefore, that their application was denied unfairly. How does the Department ensure that survivors who are illiterate, who have only limited literacy or who are in institutional care receive the service to which they are entitled, given these breaches which have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I appreciate the witnesses have had many questions to answer but I still do not understand why the statement says that since mid-2016, applicants to Caranua whose applications are not approved are notified in writing of their right to appeal and how to go about this, when the appeals officer himself, in the report published just one month ago, says "we continue to experience cases on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Does that include the UK?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The number of applicants there is very-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The number of applications from Britain is particularly low and this is another indication that Caranua has not succeeded in reaching out to victims over there. There is so much evidence that Caranua is not fit for function. I understand-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I kind of have to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Operation of Caranua: Department of Education and Skills (15 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I hear what the Chairman is saying. Someone has to say it.

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Protected Disclosures (20 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: The Minister is very welcome. Ennis Educate Together national school was founded in 1998. In recent years there have been revelations about shocking and long-standing failures of school management. There are also serious questions for the school patron, and it gives me no pleasure to say that as I have long been a firm supporter and advocate of Educate Together. These revelations have...