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Seanad: Equality of Access to Education: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Equality of Access to Education: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I second my colleague, Senator Craughwell's proposal to invite the Minister to the House regarding Operation Sophia. I was also going to raise this issue and our party's grave concerns. Operation Sophia is an EU military mission under the guise of the Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP, of the European Union. The primary stated objective is to target and stop gangs using vessels for...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: The Senator should not say that.

Seanad: Srebrenica Massacre: Motion (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome our friends from Bosnia to the Chamber today. I had the pleasure of meeting them just before this debate. It was so instructive to listen to the personal testimony of somebody like Alen Osmanovio, who described his two-week march from Srebrenica to relative safety in Tuzla and the horrors those on the march endured. He was 17 at the time and his younger brother was just 11. It...

Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education Staff (5 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State, although I am disappointed that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs could not be here this morning. This week is very significant for child care workers and early years educators throughout Ireland. It is the week in which they go in their thousands to sign on for the dole for the summer. Under the early childhood education and care programme, early...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education Staff (5 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is a fair point. I thank the Minister of State for the reply. This is the first time I have been given a reply that makes a positive mention of a sectoral employment order, which I welcome. I hope there is the political will to make that happen, because it is not good enough simply to say that it is up to the employers. The Department has a positive role to play in making it happen....

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I commend Senator Black on organising the screening of the film "This is Palestine" by John and Gerry McColgan and on her words today. It is a powerful film and is free to download from the Trócaire website. All of us should try to share the film. What it shows of the Palestinian people's suffering is truly shocking. I particularly welcome Senator Noone's attendance for some of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I wish to declare an interest. As a former SIPTU official I know at first hand that everything Mr. Fleming has said is right and accurate. One of my first experiences of being a trade union official took place in Rossaveal in Galway in 2007. I was a fairly innocent and green trade union official who tried to help some Egyptian fishermen but I lost on a technicality. I have spent more than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: It is shocking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I apologise for interrupting. I fully support the call for a collective agreement. However, collective agreements by their nature are voluntary. The employers will have no interest in having a collective agreement unless the State acts in a robust way to tackle these issues finally. We can talk all we like about a collective agreement, but unless the State is prepared to take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: We knew the flaws in the work permits system that used to operate for foreign nationals from outside the European Union. We also knew that tying employees to particular employers effectively created bonded labour. The Department had no excuse for replicating that system and it is an indictment of it that it did so. It speaks to the fact that it does not care.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I join other Members in wishing the Leader well and in congratulating him on his good news today. I wish to raise the issue of financial waste and outsourcing in the HSE and I ask that the Minister for Health be invited to the House to discuss it. This matter was revealed last week on foot of a parliamentary question submitted by my colleague, Deputy Louise O'Reilly. Since 2012, the State...

Seanad: Report on Dying, Death and Bereavement: Statements (4 Jul 2017)

Paul Gavan: I congratulate Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell on an excellent report. It is not every day that we get agreement in this Chamber but the Senator's report has achieved that and she is to be commended. It is a fine and timely piece of work. I welcome the Minister and congratulate her on her recent appointment. I have been through the bereavement grant process and it means a lot to families....

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Paul Gavan: I seek leave to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act to end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who have attained the age of 16 and for those entering their first two years of employment, which is No. 13 on the Seanad Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Paul Gavan: Yes. A number of us had a very good engagement last Thursday with the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO. Like their colleagues in the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, they made a very cogent and persuasive case for additional funding for national schools in particular. I was shocked to learn of the contrast between the subsidy per pupil at national school level and the subsidy...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: First Stage (27 Jun 2017)

Paul Gavan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who have attained the age of 16, and for those who are entering their first two years of employment.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: First Stage (27 Jun 2017)

Paul Gavan: Next Tuesday.