Results 161-180 of 3,871 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- 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: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: We will not subsidise the rich.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: The Government gave €21 million in tax relief to the rich.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Yesterday, as Senators know, I brought up the issue of public service pay and stated how out of touch the Government is with how ordinary people are feeling. I wish to raise today another issue of which the Government seems blissfully unaware, namely, the time one must wait for State benefits. The average waiting time for the carer's allowance is 40 weeks, as we know from an answer to a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: It certainly is. Perhaps Fine Gael has calculated on the fact that people on welfare do not vote for its members.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I am asking the Leader to bring the Minister to the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: When we talk about voodoo economics, let us talk about a Government that advocates cutting the universal social charge-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: -----while people are dying in our hospitals. Let us talk about the economics that saw 66 people waiting on trolleys in Limerick just last week. Let us talk about Dr. Emmet Kerin, who declared that elderly patients with life-threatening illnesses are refusing to go to University Hospital Limerick because of the chaotic conditions. After six years in government, the best the Government can...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: On a point of order, we were not questioning the Leader but the Taoiseach. It was he who made the promise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: I commend Senator Davitt on raising the important issue of online gambling. I also support the comments that Senator Higgins made about CETA. Today, I wish to raise the issue of Palestine. As the Leader will be aware, there was a vote in the Dáil and the Seanad to recognise the state of Palestine two years ago. Indeed, a commitment to recognise the state is contained in the programme...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: "Uncomfortable Conversations".
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2016)
Paul Gavan: We are actually terribly reasonable chaps. We are always available to meet.