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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: 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 (7 Nov 2018)
Paul Gavan: As the Leader knows, I have raised the crisis of industrial relations at University Hospital Limerick, UHL, on a number of occasions since May of this year. I highlighted the victimisation of shop stewards, including the case of one man who, eight months on, is still awaiting a resolution. I also highlighted a culture of bullying which is embedded deep in management thinking at the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2018)
Paul Gavan: That is the next step.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Paul Gavan: I also give full congratulations to President Michael D. Higgins on his success in the presidential election and I wish him well for the next seven years.I welcome the statement this afternoon from Show Racism the Red Card in Ireland and England, both of which have joined with the Professional Footballers Association of Ireland to support James McClean and call on the English Football...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Absolutely disgraceful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Brexit is really exercising minds at present. I was speaking with a group in Dublin yesterday, including some international politicians and it looks now as though we could be well heading for a hard Brexit, which would be an absolute disaster. Anyone who heard John Redwood on the radio yesterday would immediately recognise that these are not rational people-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: These are not people with whom one can reason. Moreover, they have the worst of pacts with the DUP. It is ironic in one respect because some colleagues in this House criticise Sinn Féin for not reaching agreement with the DUP but I have absolute sympathy for the Government and for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, for their inability to reach agreement with...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: They know.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Through Shannon.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: The Senator's party should stand in the Six Counties. It would be very welcome.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Fine Gael should come up and challenge us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Fine Gael should become a 32-county party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Why should those in Fine Gael restrict themselves to the Twenty-six Counties? They can see to it that Fine Gael becomes a 32-county party. They can do it.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Equine Identification Scheme (4 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State. He will be aware that my colleague, Deputy Quinlivan, recently submitted a parliamentary question asking how many prosecutions since January 2013 for the failure of owners to microchip their horses had taken place. We submitted that question after a meeting with Action for Animal Welfare Ireland, AAWI, which, the Minister of State may know, is holding a...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Equine Identification Scheme (4 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I appreciate that he did not just work through the script because, with no disrespect to the civil servant who drafted it, it does not address the issue raised. I accept the Minister of State's bona fides but, with no disrespect, the Department is not policing the system effectively. According to Action for Animal Welfare Ireland, there are...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Equine Identification Scheme (4 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: I will submit a further Commencement matter in a few months, if I may.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: Not for the first time I want to raise the issue of Palestine. I was lucky enough to attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence to hear a presentation by the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, EAPPI. The programme was founded in response to a call made by the heads of churches in Jerusalem. Since 2002, more than 1,500...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: I call on my colleagues in Fine Gael because I have had private conversations with a number of them where they showed genuine sympathy for the Palestinian people, to make their voices heard within their party because the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is simply not delivering beyond words. In the 1980s, we heard all the same excuses and reasons that we could not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2018)
Paul Gavan: It is shameful.