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

Paul Gavan: I am sure the people watching at home can make up their own minds.

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

Paul Gavan: I want to put on record Sinn Féin's support for the amendment. This is a very important issue. I look forward to the Minister's response.

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

Paul Gavan: Sinn Féin fully supports the amendment. With the greatest of respect, I am not at all satisfied with what the Minister has said to date about these illegal vaccines and the responsibility or culpability of the huge pharma giant, GlaxoSmithKline. He seems to be saying something along the lines of, "Well, we are going to do something but we do not know what." We do know the facts. We...

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

Paul Gavan: No, not really but I will. Sorry, did Senator Seery Kearney indicate?

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

Paul Gavan: The Senator has made a good point and perhaps we can all take a five-minute break to lobby them. I back what Senator Higgins has said. Last year, GlaxoSmithKline had £29.3 billion of sales yet, from what the Minister has said, it clearly does not intend to pay a single cent to the victims of the illegal vaccine abuse. That is absolutely scandalous and surely the State has to respond.

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

Paul Gavan: I would like to speak to this section.

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

Paul Gavan: That is no problem.

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

Paul Gavan: We cannot agree to any section that supports the idea of the requirement for a six-month residency and, therefore, we oppose this section. I have made my position and our party's position very clear on that.

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

Paul Gavan: Does the Cathaoirleach want to name names?

Seanad: Naming of National Children's Hospital for Dr. Kathleen Lynn: Motion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Academic Precarity: Motion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I congratulate the National University of Ireland panel Senators on tabling this important motion. I also welcome our friends in the Gallery. I will start with a quote from Dr. Ingrid Holme, adjunct research fellow in sociology at UCD, because it struck me as being powerful. She stated: I've never settled down. You can end up not having a family. I don't have pets – I foster...

Seanad: Academic Precarity: Motion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: Yes

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I thank the Chair and thank our guests. This is one of the most important meetings that we have held. Huge credit is due to Dr. O'Sullivan and her team on the level of research conducted and the findings. I will read a couple of the quotes from that research into the record because they are so stark: "Everything you type is being recorded in instant messaging."; "Up the line they want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: Both those points are very important. I have a concern. Officials from the Department and the Minister were before the committee two weeks ago to talk about the works council directive which, as the representatives know, has been appallingly inscribed here. Effectively, it is useless for workers but the attitude of the Minister was that there is nothing to see here. How much confidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I pay tribute to the FSU in particular because it is a great example of a union that goes out to support workers and to address their needs directly. That is a huge credit to it as regards the way it is growing. We need to support a report being written by this committee to follow through on the excellent work of the FSU and Dr. O'Sullivan and her team.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I have been given a note that relates to this topic. I do not know whether what is claimed in it is accurate. The note states: Are you aware of an AI data collection tool called Workplace Activity Data Utility, or WADU for short? This AI tool, it is alleged, monitors workers' activity and body language through cameras in the office space to deduce their performance, their attention,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: There are 550? My God.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: This evening, we are back on Committee Stage of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill. I wish to make an appeal to colleagues across the Chamber at this point, because something fundamentally wrong is happening. A Bill that is fundamentally flawed is going to be passed on Committee and Report Stages over the next week and then passed into law. As we all know, this is a Bill...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I accept that. The reason I am making this point today is because I want to appeal to colleagues from the Government benches, in particular, to stop and have a conversation in their parliamentary parties to ensure that the Bill in its current form does not pass and those crucial reforms to include survivors are made. I cannot understand why there is silence from the Government side of the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: I wish to put on record Sinn Féin’s support for all of these amendments. These are important reports. I hope the Minister is not wasting our time. I hope he has not come here with a fixed mind to reject each and every amendment that has been tabled. On amendment No. 33, I highlight that since last week a number people have asked me where the Government got these financial...