Results 4,101-4,120 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Before the summer break I asked the Leader if we could have a debate on equality and I reiterate that call this morning. The budget is one week away and this afternoon I have arranged for representatives of TASC, the Think-tank for action on Social Change, to give a presentation at 2 o’clock. Each year it produces an excellent report on equality based on the Government’s...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy David Stanton, to the Chamber. Six months ago a Korean woman in her early thirties came to Ireland with her six-year-old son to seek asylum. On arriving, they were sent to Kinsale Road Accommodation Centre in Cork, where they slept in a cramped single room, washed with strangers in communal showers and ate at set times in the canteen. The mother was...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: I am not happy with that response because it is a classic Civil Service scripted response. It does not deal with the questions I asked the Minister of State. It is a very disappointing response, in particular, to the question about the right to work. Ireland is one of only two countries in Europe that does not recognise the reception conditions directive, which reflects very badly on us....
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Will the Minister of State answer my question?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: When will the Government increase the adult payment?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: I refer to the protest outside the Bank of Ireland yesterday, in which I was pleased to take part. It arose from its disgraceful and vindictive decision to summarily close the bank account belonging to the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. It would be bad enough for any bank to make this decision, but Bank of Ireland is not any bank; it is a bank that was bailed out by taxpayers and in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Senator Buttimer has not read the document.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: The State is a shareholder.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Senator O'Donnell is not dealing with the topic.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Why is Apple paying less than 2% in tax?
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: I will be very brief. I will not repeat the points my colleagues have made. I have some questions for the Minister. Was a special deal done between the State and Apple? The chief financial executive of Apple said to US politicians: Since the early 1990s the government of Ireland has calculated Apple's taxable income in such a way as to produce an effective rate in the low single digits....
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: We know this. It is irrelevant.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: That is not what the Apple executive said.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: Why did he say it?
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: We are getting there.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: We all agree on that. The Senator is not addressing the question.
- Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)
Paul Gavan: It was not me saying it. It was the Apple chief executive.