Results 3,401-3,420 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: Maybe the Tánaiste's colleagues could confirm if the figure would be more than the number employed today or significantly more than the number employed today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: I appreciate that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: My point is that I believe the figure was significantly more in 2012. I am concerned because we are facing the greatest economic challenge for decades and it is worrying that, notwithstanding the increase in employment that has been achieved in Enterprise Ireland, we seem to have significantly less people employed in the key State sector than we did five years ago. This does not seem right...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Tánaiste. I would appreciate if those figures could be sent on to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: Briefly. I support the comments on greenways, which have considerable potential. However, I will revert on my previous point. It has been shared with me that, in 2012, Enterprise Ireland employed 742 staff as opposed to 570 this year. That is a drop of 172. Notwithstanding the point that Deputy Neville rightly makes about ensuring that the organisation operates efficiently, I will point...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: I want to ask about the Health and Safety Authority, HSA. I will begin with a brief quote from an RTE report, which stated that "the country's workplace safety agency says it currently does not have sufficient resources to perform all of its duties to the highest standard." Speaking on RTE's "This Week" programme, Martin O'Halloran, CEO of the HSA, said he has written to the Government...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: There are 1,000 fewer inspections than there used to be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: I acknowledge what the Tánaiste has said. To be frank, as someone who has worked as a trade union officer for over a decade, that number of inspectors is inadequate given the increase in precarious work in recent years and the shocking abuses in the fishing and the hotel industries, in particular. The number of inspectors needs to be addressed. In fairness to the Tánaiste's staff...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)
Paul Gavan: I shall clarify one point, Tánaiste. I do not dispute the good work that has been done. The committee was quite impressed with what the WRC had to say when it came here. What worried me, and I think a number of others, was the WRC admitted that it would have to step back and cannot continue the number of inspections that it wants to conduct because of the resource issue. That is a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I refer to the motion we received at 7 p.m. yesterday from the Government on the eighth report of the Convention on the Constitution. I propose an amendment to the motion as there is something very wrong. The idea that key topics such as the right to housing, disability support services and linguistic and cultural rights should all be referred to the finance committee is quite bizarre, but...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Government proposes to send it to the wrong committee and that is the point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Leader has missed the point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Leader is struggling this morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: It sounds like it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Where does it come back from?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Which committee?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Which committee?