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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: The Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment heard from Oxfam Ireland and Médecins Sans Frontières on this matter. The good news is that we wrote to the Tánaiste on an all-party basis and said he needed to come out in full support of a TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 vaccines. However, the disgraceful fact of the matter is that he has done quite the opposite. The EU is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: The fact of the matter is that the Government is siding with big pharma as opposed to with the people of the world, the World Health Organization and organisations like Oxfam. It is shameful. People in the Minister of State's own party voted against the stance the Tánaiste is taking. Please tell us the Government can and will do better.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: I commend our President, Michael D. Higgins, on the excellent and very accurate speech he made yesterday. He said the housing situation we face is no longer a crisis but a disaster.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: I am being very nice but I take the Cathaoirleach's point. Anyone familiar with the housing crisis knows that right now, it is getting worse not better. We had a meeting in Limerick the other night, which was packed to the rafters and was attended by Dr. Lorcan Sirr. He also attended the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis a couple of years ago and is not a member of any political party. He made a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: The truth hurts.

Seanad: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: The Tánaiste is very welcome. Sinn Féin supports this Bill and has campaigned for statutory sick pay for several years. Indeed, today is very important day as it recognises the work of trade unions, which have campaigned tirelessly in this regard. It has been a sad fact that Ireland has lagged decades behind the rest of Europe when it comes to the provision of sick pay so the...

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: - Ireland is facing a cost-of-living crisis; - the cost-of-living crisis is driven by inflation, by external factors such as supply and demand mismatches following the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and domestic factors such as housing and rental crisis inflation;...

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister. This is quite a bizarre moment. We have a motion from Fine Gael much of which, essentially, involves the party congratulating itself on the great job it has done on the cost of living before going on then to declare the additional help that we need next January. It is June. There was a lady on national radio the other evening, a number of Senators may have heard...

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: In January.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: Do.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: Congratulate yourselves on how well you have done.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: The Government did not reduce the cost of home heating oil.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: The Senator is factually incorrect. He does not even know what he is on about.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: There was no reduction in the cost of heating oil.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: It is a political Chamber.

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Gavan: It was "fiscal incontinence".