Results 3,741-3,760 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: Who is in charge?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: We are not opposed to that at all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: You starve public services instead.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is not the point I was making.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: It has taken six years to recognise that the HSE has to go.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: I accept that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: We have done that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: It has been an awful week. Like all of my colleagues, I extend our sympathies to the families of the crew of Helicopter Rescue 116, to the family of Ryan McBride, to the Haughey family and, of course, to the family of our comrade Martin McGuinness. I will speak on Martin later and I appreciate the time given by the Leader in that respect. I acknowledge the tremendous victory of the SIPTU...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act to provide for additional protections for employees in the service sector to ensure they receive tips or gratuities paid by customers and to provide for related matters.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am glad that Senator Coffey mentioned ideology because there is an ideological problem at the heart of the Government. In the worst of times in this country we built public housing, through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I do not often compliment Fianna Fáil but it was largely responsible for that public housing. Fine Gael has never been comfortable with the idea of providing homes for...
- Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: The problem is in the figures.
- Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: We have costed proposals. The Minister of State has rejected them.
- Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: What about the tax cuts for the rich? There is no problem there.
- Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is the Minister of State's ideology.
- Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: I only want to add a few comments. An awful lot has already been said. Like many people, I got my first impressions of Martin McGuinness from his appearances on television, in particular that strange time which we may have forgotten when we could see but not hear him on television and an actor's voice spoke for him. Those were strange times both here and in Britain where I found that was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am reluctant to thank Mr. Scannell for his presentation. I do not mean that disrespectfully but he has told us absolutely nothing in relation to the key issues here. Like my colleague, Deputy Niall Collins, I have to express my huge disappointment at IDA Ireland's decision not to attend, Enterprise Ireland's decision not to attend and the Minister's decision not to attend. To be frank,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Minister has done a great disservice to the two representatives from the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)
Paul Gavan: I have two quick ones. Referring back to Mr. Scannell's statement, he spoke about the fact that the IDA has advised the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation that granting a further extension to the agreement would not be legally permissible. Has the Department seen that legal advice?