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Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: It is nice to see the Minister of State who is welcome to the House. The budget came at a time of great challenge for our country, economy and people. Budget 2021 was primarily a response to that challenge. Since this pandemic began Sinn Féin has committed to constructively engage with the previous and current Governments in the best interests of our people while holding the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: Votáil.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: I agree with a number of previous speakers on the issue of the environment. The suggestion that the Bill could start here is an excellent one. It would benefit from constructive cross-party discussion and debate. I will raise two issues briefly, if I may. The first relates to student nurses. I will quote the words of a student nurse, which I read late last night. Just home from unpaid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: I thank the three people who presented this morning. I am struck by the unanimity between IBEC and ICTU on the importance of the short-time work scheme. I apologise that I need to go straight to a Council of Europe meeting after this. Are any further engagements planned with the Departments regarding that short-time work scheme in the coming week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: I want to express my extreme concern, given the importance placed on this short-time working scheme by both IBEC and ICTU, that we do not seem to have sufficient engagement from the Government on it at this time. I wish to ask about the threat that Brexit potentially poses to existing terms and conditions of employment. ICTU has highlighted previously the danger of a race to the bottom...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: I thank the witnesses. I only have 20 seconds left so I will ask the representative from Border Communities Against Brexit a simple question. He said that there is a serious information deficit with regard to the implications of Brexit for supply routes, importation, exportation and the associated paperwork and bureaucracy. Are we facing chaos on 1 January 2021?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: I just would like to finish by saying that I am extremely concerned by what we have heard this morning. This is serious testimony from people who really know what they are talking about because they are at the coalface. Let us hope the Government responds this week.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: Today is a good day. It is nice to see the shops open. I was on Grafton Street early this morning picking up a couple of things. At the same time, it struck me that we had some bad news yesterday as we have already heard about the Arcadia Group. I have genuine concerns. Another 500 jobs are at risk with another dubious enterprise in terms of its management and ownership. There is a huge...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Paul Gavan: The Minister is very welcome and I stress at the outset that we will support the Bill. I recognise the very hard work the Minister has been undertaking for some time now on this issue. I want to take a couple of minutes to speak about Brexit itself. Far too often when people speak about Brexit we hear a simplistic narrative that pits a wholesome European Union with its much vaunted values...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. For decades this country placed children behind bars, the vast majority for reasons of poverty and class. Father Flanagan of the boy's town schools in the United States visited the Irish industrial schools in 1946 and described them as a national disgrace. That led to a public debate in the Dáil and national media exposure. Their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. I am somewhat concerned. I have had prior dealings with Caranua through the education committee in the last Parliament. I am aware its dealings were far from satisfactory on a number of occasions. I would be concerned at the Minister of State's reference to "a small number" of cases because I certainly do not think 86 is a small number of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: I wish to begin, a Chathaoirligh, by paying tribute to Diego Maradona, who passed away yesterday. For my generation, he was without doubt the greatest footballer we have ever seen. There was so much to the man. He was not just a wonderful footballer who scored the best goal ever seen in football against England in 1986. This was not because it was against England but because of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: And George Best, absolutely. The second issue I raise is altogether different. A very serious report by the Tax Justice Network, which has not received much attention since it was published last week, has shown that Ireland is one of the biggest tax havens in the world, costing other countries, including some of the poorest countries in the world, almost $16 billion, that is, €13.5...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: Will the Deputy Leader take a point of information?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: She said she would.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: No, I asked if she will take a point of information.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: No, it is with regard to Eir.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Gavan: The Cathaoirleach is being very generous. I will point out to the Deputy Leader that this is what happens when one privatises a good State company.