Results 4,001-4,020 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Palestine?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: We will not subsidise the rich.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: The Government gave €21 million in tax relief to the rich.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Yesterday, as Senators know, I brought up the issue of public service pay and stated how out of touch the Government is with how ordinary people are feeling. I wish to raise today another issue of which the Government seems blissfully unaware, namely, the time one must wait for State benefits. The average waiting time for the carer's allowance is 40 weeks, as we know from an answer to a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: It certainly is. Perhaps Fine Gael has calculated on the fact that people on welfare do not vote for its members.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I am asking the Leader to bring the Minister to the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: When we talk about voodoo economics, let us talk about a Government that advocates cutting the universal social charge-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: -----while people are dying in our hospitals. Let us talk about the economics that saw 66 people waiting on trolleys in Limerick just last week. Let us talk about Dr. Emmet Kerin, who declared that elderly patients with life-threatening illnesses are refusing to go to University Hospital Limerick because of the chaotic conditions. After six years in government, the best the Government can...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: On a point of order, we were not questioning the Leader but the Taoiseach. It was he who made the promise.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: As the Minister will be aware, a human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Yemen, a catastrophe aided and abetted by the US Government. Much outrage has been expressed about the slaughter in Syria and Iraq but very little about the daily bombing in Yemen where thousands have perished since Saudi Arabia and its allies began an air campaign a year and a half ago. Nor has there been much public...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He is in a difficult position. I believe the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Flanagan, is hiding on this issue. I originally asked that the Taoiseach appear before this House on this issue but the matter was referred to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade who, as I said, is in hiding on this issue. The reply has no...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: How does the Minister of State know that?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: The aircraft have never been searched.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Best practice?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: That is not true.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: That is because the aircraft need to be searched.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Last week I referred to the urgent need for the Government to agree a start date for talks on a successor to the Lansdowne Road agreement. We have since had the statement from the Taoiseach clinging to the fantasy that the agreement can continue to run for another two years. There have been hints of something different, but the Government seems oblivious to the anger and hurt among public...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Of course one can.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I said that.