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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Do it.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: This is a political Chamber, for God's sake.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Shame.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Shame.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I also raise the issue of Bus Éireann and call for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to come to the House, although I suspect it will not help us. I was on the picket line yesterday with workers in Limerick. I welcome that there has been support from all sides of the House on the issue. I also welcome Senator Kieran O'Donnell's comments to the degree that he recognises...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Those workers do not want to be on strike. I was with them yesterday. They had no choice but to take this action. It is time that Fine Gael Members took responsibility and told their colleague, the Minister, Deputy Ross, what needs to be done. The issues of Government policy have to be dealt with. I remind Members of this House that we are talking about workers who have to wait 20 years...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Otherwise it will, as Senator Leyden said, kill our public bus service, just as it did Irish Shipping.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Is that why he is doing nothing about it?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: What about Government policy?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Cheap talk is Government policy and the Leader knows it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: The Leader should take responsibility for his party's part in six years of failed Government policies.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: That is Fine Gael.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: Nobody mention Deputy Alan Kelly.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I wish to highlight that SIPTU is holding a protest at lunchtime today in regard to workers from the community sector. It is a sector that is in crisis in terms of funding and job losses. I would ask people from across the Chamber to come out and support our colleagues in SIPTU today. I wish to raise the issue of income equality and perhaps ask for the Minister for Finance to come to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: ----- and in this report is a call to tax the wealth in this country that needs to be taxed.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. A TASC report, based on Government figures, shows that 10 % of the population now own 54 % of the wealth in this country, up from 44 %. We have a crisis in income inequality. It is something that we do not talk about enough. These figures are scandalous. They contrast with the ten cent increase in the minimum wage this year. We need to have a debate about...