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Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome this morning's decision by the Supreme Court effectively declaring the ban on asylum seekers from working to be unconstitutional.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: A Burmese man who spent eight years in direct provision has won his Supreme Court appeal over the legal ban preventing him from working. The court has adjourned the matter for six months to allow the Legislature to consider the matter. According to Mr. Justice O'Donnell, “This damage to the individual’s’ self worth and sense of themselves, is exactly the damage which...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Last week, we saw horrific reports from the Mosney direct provision accommodation centre whereby residents were being sold out-of-date food for consumption - chicken meat that was two months out of date - leading to food poisoning.The residents of Mosney are being forced into a system of segregated shopping rather than being allowed buy food at a regular shop like everyone else. There is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I want to second Senator Conway-Walsh's proposal. Apologies for-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Senator Conway-Walsh's amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: How?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Deputy Alan Kelly, yes?

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister. The mid-term capital review is, in Sinn Féin's view, a complete misnomer, as it implies that there was a plan to review in the first place. There was not. In 2015, the Government simply cobbled together several projects already under way and repackaged them as a five-year plan. Now, two years later, the Government is scrambling to make it look like it is...

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: To be fair, we have been calling for this for years. It is embarrassing for Senator Kieran O'Donnell to have to admit that six years into a Government he supports, there is still no commitment for the M20 project. A senior businessperson in Limerick told me that if we get approval later this year, it will be ten years - a decade - before that road is in place. That is the record and I have...

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Fine Gael is too right wing for Senator McDowell now.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is because we have been in crisis for the past six years.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Yes, but we pointed out the weaknesses in the plan.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: It is a free market plan.

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is not what I said. The Minister did not listen to me.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is harsh on John Terry.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: I second my colleague, Senator Ó Clochartaigh's motion to amend the Order of Business in regard to Údarás. I am loath to enter the debate on the Fine Gael leadership contest-----

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: -----but I have to say that the comments from both parties - I heard the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney echo his colleague this morning - in regard to curtailing the right to strike are concerning. This is not merely right-wing politics. This is far-right politics. I would remind the House that the right to strike is a fundamental human...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hospital trolleys.