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Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is very welcome. I will begin by commending colleagues in the Civil Engagement Group for this excellent and extremely timely motion. Senator Clonan was quite right to highlight the contrast between coverage of the tragic circumstance of that submarine in which five billionaires drowned and the absence of anything like that coverage for the 750 human beings who drowned...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: The Senator is justified.

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (15 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for coming in. She will know that the report of the task force on youth mental health was published in 2017. Subsequently there was a commitment by the Government to set up a pathfinder unit for youth mental health. One of the asks of the youth mental health pathfinder project was to effectively embed a new model of cross-government working...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (15 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: It is an extraordinarily long reply that tells me very little. The simple question at the heart of this Commencement matter is when will the pathfinder unit be set up? We are six years on from the recommendation and excuses are fairly thin. The Minister of State talks how about the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I am glad to say today is International Justice Day for Cleaners and Security Staff. There are protests and events happening right across the world, organised by our wonderful trade union movements. I am particularly proud of my union, SIPTU. I used to represent our contract cleaners and security staff. I am glad to inform the House that there is a protest taking place right now outside...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I wish to raise two issues regarding prisoners I know the Acting Leader will be very familiar that we regularly bring up the issue of prisoners and justice in the Council of Europe. I am particularly concerned about what is happening in Türkiye and have been for some considerable time. The rule of law has come under severe attack in Türkiye in recent years. Thousands of...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I wish to speak to amendment No. 44. It is the only Sinn Féin amendment that has been allowed to be discussed today, at this final opportunity to discuss this Bill. I wish to read the amendment into the record, so that those watching at home can understand our position. It proposes that: In page 35, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(4) The Minister shall,...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I wish to pose some queries and set out the Sinn Féin stance regarding some of these proposed amendments. We are concerned about amendments Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 7 in particular. I must be honest and say it looks like these proposed amendments are designed to restrict people's ability to apply for restitution. I wish to flag to the Minister that it is significant what Senator Boyhan has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I very much welcome the Cathaoirleach's words regarding our late colleague, Mr. Paul Coghlan. I extend not just my sympathies but those of my Sinn Féin colleagues to Paul's family and friends, and the Fine Gael Party. Paul was always an absolute gentleman. He was a very warm human being. He was someone who went out of his way to make all of us welcome when we first arrived in the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Annita Demetriou, Speaker of the Cypriot House of Representatives (13 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: I offer Madam President an especial welcome on behalf of my party, Sinn Féin. I very much welcome her very thoughtful speech, which hit a lot of key points. She spoke about values in particular. I have seen her country expound those values at first hand at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Cyprus has an excellent team out there. You see them really punch above...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: The Minister is very welcome. It is good to see her back. This is a very important debate this evening. There has been much debate generated by this Bill recently but the fundamentals of that debate do not stray far from the analysis Sinn Féin has consistently offered. Simply stated, there is a difficult balance between freedom of speech and inclusion. This balance interacts with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: To begin with, I am going to say something I do not say very often. Well said, Senator Mullen. Today I want to raise the issue of the State pension. A key commitment in the programme for Government is that the State pension should be benchmarked to 34% of average earnings in the State. This was a very welcome commitment, one that I think all parties would support. The problem of course is...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I put on record Sinn Féin's support for both amendments Nos. 39 and 40. As amendment No. 39 deals with the issue of the 180 days, it allows me to again ask the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the question which he has, so far, refused to answer. I will ask it again, and I also ask the Minister for the courtesy of a straight response. How does he justify excluding the 24,000 residents who...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: Perhaps the Minister will now answer the question I asked him. How does he justify the exclusion of the 24,000 people who spent less than six months in one of these institutions?

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: It is all very well for the Minister to say there is a range of responses in the Bill. I acknowledge this. However, he still has not explained the exclusion of these 24,000 people. He did refer to the fact that in his experience of meeting these people, they were much more interested in birth information. I do not know if that gives the Minister the right to decide that he knows what is...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: For the record, the Minister is not going to answer the question.