Results 4,021-4,040 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: That is not what the Sinn Féin person said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: No, it is not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Senator Butler is a partitionist.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Senator Butler is a Twenty-six Counties partitionist.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: We do not call for tax cuts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Absolute nonsense.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: It is because I mentioned Eoin O'Duffy yesterday. They are still bitter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: We need an early date for the talks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Nonsense.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: It is.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I welcome our colleagues from Mandate. I have had the pleasure of working alongside them. Mandate represents the very best of the trade union movement. It is a fighting and campaigning union and we are proud to have its representatives here. Sinn Féin welcomes the Bill. I am pleased that we are again being presented with an opportunity to address the issue of precarious work which...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I welcome this Bill and commend all the staff behind all the hard work. Sinn Féin will be supporting this legislation. While for some this is a fascinating historical project, I am also sure it was quite a laborious task to go through our Statute Book, assessing what needed to be kept and revoked. It is important work and I welcome the fact we are, again, updating our Statute Book to...
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: However, while all this work is undoubtedly useful and necessary, is it really that urgent? Why exactly are we spending our time repealing laws from 90 years ago, Acts that are effectively dead, when there are laws today affecting people's lives that need repealed? Laws that need to be dealt with are being pushed down the road for six months here and eight months there. Why is it that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Did I just hear right? Was Fianna Fáil giving out about banking fat cats? Seriously.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: That is a strange one.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I just want to confirm that is what we heard. That was all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: In light of the Labour Court proposals on Garda pay, the ongoing and welcome negotiations between the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, and the Department of Education and Skills and the serious threat of industrial action that remains there, the impending action by our nurses and midwives, the anger of our public health workers, in particular, and Jack O'Connor's comments on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Hitler was elected democratically as well.
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I join with my colleague, Senator Bacik, in welcoming all the people in the Gallery. They are my colleagues from Equity, the Musicians Union of Ireland, the National Union of Journalist and SIPTU. This is a very significant day and I hope all of us will welcome it. This legislation is long overdue and it is probably worth repeating what Esther Lynch had to say when the Competition Act came...