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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I will address that point directly. All of this person's colleagues are employed on exactly the same contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I will ask the question again. I will be honest. I have used the equality legislation. It does not apply in this case because everyone on one of these contracts is treated equally unfairly. There are no grounds for discrimination from which to choose. I ask Mr. Smyth again to state what legislation is available to deal with this case right now. I am making this point in support of my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Which is not enforceable.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Hear hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I begin by sending out greetings of solidarity on behalf of my party, Sinn Féin, to the Tesco workers who are on strike today. They are striking for decency and respect at work. I hope that everyone in the Chamber will join with me in saluting their courage today. I was at another picket line this morning and it is one that has not reached the headlines for some reason. The picket...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I raise again the issue of Tesco, which I raised yesterday on the Order of Business. Senators received further correspondence from the company yesterday evening. I have just left a meeting with Mandate across the road and, as an experienced trade unionist, I am genuinely shocked by what I heard at first hand from Mandate members about the levels of intimidation meted out to them.People have...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: We are against the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I wish to raise an issue with Tesco. As some Senators will know Tesco is Ireland's largest private employer, employing more than 11,000 staff. Unfortunately, Tesco has also decided to go down the road of union busting. It has hired a specialist firm of lawyers who engage in union busting as a career. It is trying to drive Mandate, a fine trade union, out of Tesco. We know this because...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: This is a never-ending lecture.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: We learned the real facts on Wednesday night.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is why they are in America and Britain.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: That is not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: There is a mandate to ballot.
- Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: The Tánaiste is very welcome. Sinn Féin welcomes publication of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 which, if enacted, will enable the courts to award periodic payment orders, PPOs, to compensate injured victims in cases of catastrophic injury where long-term permanent care is required instead of awarding lump sums in damages, as is the norm in these cases. The Bill arose...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I want to raise two issues. First, I welcome the UK Supreme Court ruling relating to the flag protests that went on for months and that affected people living in the Short Strand. Unfortunately, the PSNI chose not to stop the protests going through. I am pleased that the UK Supreme Court found that the police service had the power to stop them and that it should have done so. I commend...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: A round of applause, please.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: Do not let him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: God help us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: I again refer to Bus Éireann, an issue I have to raise. Who uses the public bus service? If we think about it, it is used by old people, young people, those who are sick, those living in rural towns and those on low incomes who do not have private transport. They are facing the prospect of losing key parts of the service. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)
Paul Gavan: And emigration.