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- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: Why will they not engage with trade unions?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: What the Minister of State has said is quite outrageous. The Irish Hotels Federation has point-blank refused and has stated with pride that it will not engage with trade unions or the industrial relations machinery of the State. I have cited that example several times in this Chamber. Will the Minister of State not condemn that? Has he nothing to say about it? I am very clear-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I would suggest that he is somewhere to the right of the Tories.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I move recommendation No. 8: In page 50, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “29. Within 7 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the potential introduction of a financial transactions tax to include a consideration of— (a) the potential for Ireland to demonstrate European and global leadership on this issue, (b) the...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: That is fine. I think it is a very reasonable proposition on the part of Senator Higgins to produce a report on the potential introduction of a financial transactions tax. It is very relevant and timely. It is funny; a few years ago when I was a trade union official I had an informal conversation with the leader of Fianna Fáil, who told me he was quite open to the idea of a financial...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I move recommendation No. 10: In page 93, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “Report on restoring cap on intangible assets 35. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on restoring the 80 per cent cap on intangible assets onshored between 2015 and 2017 that can be written off against profits...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I move recommendation No. 11: In page 94, after line 34, to insert the following: “Report on applying CGT to all sales of property by IREFs 39. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on applying the full rate of Capital Gains Tax of 33 per cent to all sales of property by IREFs, as opposed to...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I will press this recommendation.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I move recommendation No. 14: In page 108, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "52. In line with the principal of economic externalities, all revenue generated through Solid Fuel Carbon Tax, Natural Gas Carbon Tax and the carbon component of Mineral Oil Tax shall form a ring-fenced climate action fund to be allocated by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: It is great to see you, a Chathaoirligh. Welcome back.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I am happy to give way.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: It must be.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: That is harsh on him.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: Perhaps otherwise.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: I wish to raise a serious issue today. It is one on which I would hope to gain all-party support, namely, the continuing plight of the secretarial assistants who work for each and every one of us in the Seanad. I was shocked to find out when I came here three and a half years ago that their starting salary was as low as €23,000.That equates to €428 a week which is a pretty...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: Bobby Sands.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: The Minister is very welcome. I am here today because I want to raise a specific related matter, which is the planned increase in the pension age the year after next to 67. I know that the joint committee asked the Minister on an all-party basis to pause this decision. The report recommended that the Minister review the disparity between the retirement age and pension age and that the...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Gavan: Agreed.