Results 901-920 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 18: In page 16, line 26, to delete “obligations under financial services” and substitute “relevant obligations or”.
- Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 21: In page 22, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(2C) The Minister shall, within the 2 years following the commencement of this section, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas detailing— (a) the level of effective implementation of the designation of persons who perform a controlled function, (b) the effectiveness of the...
- Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 22: In page 52, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: "(ia) whether it has had a widespread impact on society and the welfare of the State generally,". Amendment No. 22 seeks to stipulate that when imposing a sanction on an individual, there should be a consideration of whether the prescribed contravention has had a widespread impact on society and the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I have just come from a meeting with the Mandate trade union across the road in Buswells, at which it highlighted a report it is launching today, “Smoke and Mirrors”, which highlights key issues affecting retail workers across Ireland. I am going to make a political point, by the way. It would be nice if, once in a while, we saw someone from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: It is accurate.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: There was nobody there.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: It is disgraceful.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Leader.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I thank all of the speakers for their presentations. They are all very welcome. I want to revisit the issue of worker co-operatives because the lack of progress on worker co-operatives in this State is in stark contrast to that in other states, such as France, Spain and Italy, where they do have specific legal definitions of worker co-operatives. I know our colleagues in UCC are familiar...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I hear Dr. Carroll and I want to develop the question a little further. To be honest, for me it is not a coincidence that those countries with a legal definition of a worker co-operative have thrived in terms of developing them whereas, frankly, we have not. Let me ask this. Have Dr. Carroll and Dr. McCarthy encountered in their research any evidence of key institutions not understanding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: What sort of difficulties did that lack of awareness of the legal entities pose?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: The point I would make is surely a legal definition would help to solve that particular issue. I will extend that question. How familiar are any of the folks here in regard to the really successful developments in Scotland over the past number of years? How important have both the existence of their own development units and their own legal definition of an employee-owned enterprise been?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: As I am running short on time I will fire in one last question across all parties. Two witnesses have raised the issue of asset lock, which currently is not proposed in legislation. Sinn Féin supports the legislation but wants to see where it can be strengthened further. One aspect we believe is a legal definition of a worker co-operative but a second is that which the two parties...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Is it important?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I have not given an opportunity yet to others in regard to that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: If the Chair does not mind I will ask for an answer from the Centre for Co-operative Studies before I finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Chair. Please do.