Results 941-960 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I wish to raise, once again, the case of Julian Assange. Last week, while at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, I attended a side event that was chaired by Dr. Pieter Omtzigt MP of the Netherlands and member of the European People’s Party. He is a very impressive politician who I have worked with before. He spoke passionately about why Julian Assange should be...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Well done.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Absolutely.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: On the issue of the 24 children who have been refused a school place in Limerick, the stark fact is that on Thursday they are going to receive a letter telling them their application has been refused and they have no place in a secondary school in Limerick. A related factor that has been unacceptable for years, which my colleague, Deputy Quinlivan, has raised several times, is the tendency...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: Get used to it.
- Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is very welcome, as always. It is important that we are having this debate today. The report of the Mental Health Commission is another indictment of the state of medical services. It outlines familiar failings such as a lack of staffing and capacity. The author outlined five areas of particular concern, namely, shortage and high turnover of staff, a lack of capacity...
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: There are 78 people on trolleys at UHL this morning. So the number is running at more than twice the level of the next nearest hospital and three or four times the level of most other hospitals. The Minister will know that 12 years ago Enda Kenny declared, "I'll end the [scourge] of patients on hospital trolleys". That promise was posted all across the country. It was a key electoral...
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I do not think that it is funny-----
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: -----when I am referring to people who died. Hundreds of deaths have happened across Limerick and the mid-west and the Senator wants to crack a joke. Seriously?
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: It is not good enough.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: It is gas because there will be enough of the Senators to speak afterwards if they want to make statements.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I will not withdraw it.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: It is pathetic.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Acting Chairperson.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I am giving the facts. In fact, I am giving the facts that were supplied by the doctors who actually work in UHL and who refer to "the chronic under resourcing of the region". To be frank, what I am seeing here this evening is Government politicians pretending to be in opposition when Senator Conway and Senator Maria Byrne voted for each and every budget for the last number of years in this...
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: No, it is true.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: In fact, I spoke to the SIPTU representative today who told me that there is not 26 healthcare assistants, HCAs there at the moment but only 22.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Paul Gavan: I have given the Minister the facts.