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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Recycling Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...environment, reduce litter and waste and play a key role as a circular economy initiative. This is all very laudable. However, one additional result of this scheme, as currently configured, is to land those with disabilities with an unfair and regressive additional tax. I cannot for the life of me understand how this Government could have gone ahead with such a scheme without giving...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...resources are delivered to those areas. Amendment No. 11 also states: "The Mayoral role shall, subject to section 213 of the Act of 2000, incorporate executive functions from the chief executive in the realm of land acquisition, with all purchases being subject to the ratification by Limerick City and County Council." It is important the position of mayor is not a ribbon-cutting,...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: I move recommendation No. 28: In page 153, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "Report on residential zoned land tax 93.The Minister shall, within one month of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the residential zoned land tax including options for the exemption of actively farmed and agricultural land from its scope." It is...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: I just cannot express how deeply disappointed we are by the tactics and the lack of crucial content as regards this motion. First are the tactics of landing us with an amendment to the motion literally after the Order of Business was due to begin, which would not allow us to table any amendments to that amendment. What that does, in effect, is prevent us from debating key amendments that we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...leave that aside for one moment. In the first half of the year, the Government delivered 101 affordable purchase homes through local authorities. Not one affordable home has been delivered by the Land Development Agency, LDA. The LDA has been in existence for four years now and there has not been one affordable home delivered. There were 22 cost-rental homes delivered by the approved...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...and east Syria murdered by Turkish drones since the beginning of this year, and a further 38 have been wounded. Thirteen of those killed were civilians. The rest were soldiers who had defended their land and the world against ISIS. None was a threat to Türkiye. Civilian leaders have been specifically targeted. The drone attack last week hit a car carrying two female leaders of a...

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (18 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: ..., not just for Shannon but across the west generally. That is the sort of initiative we need to ensure we have more tourists coming to the west, if we are serious about it. If 90% of people are landing in Dublin, the chances are that an awful lot of them will not move west. That is a fundamental difference we would like to see the Government make. It would need the co-operation of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...extremist and racist parties, has given violent settler groups licence to attack Palestinian villages, destroy homes and property, blockade roads and assault farmers and deny them access to their land. This violence is carried out with impunity. The Israeli occupation forces passively watch on or often join the attacks in support of violent settlers. I call for a debate on this topic....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Reliefs (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...with a disability, such as a powered wheelchair, hoist or special bed, is subject to VAT. Why are vehicles for people who have been approved through the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme landed with VAT? As things stand, the greater the level of disability, the greater the amount of punishment dealt out by Revenue. How on earth can that be justified? Charging VAT on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Gavan: .... The aim of the directive is to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour throughout global value chains, but it is a weak directive as it stands and, therefore, the reports that Ireland is looking to prevent the inclusion of asset managers and institutional investors from the corporate sustainability reporting directive are concerning. I will quote Ms Marie Donnelly, chair...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authority Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Gavan: ...towards which it is working, approved homes are at 42% of the five-year target of 2,138 new homes. In other words, the council has a deficit of 1,247. I understand the focus for this year and next year is to acquire more land and gain more approvals to ensure the targets are met, but frankly, the council is nowhere near being able to do that as things stand. Again, the targets are...

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

Paul Gavan: ...would chill Members in terms of the level of despair people are feeling. We are on the wrong track and the wrong road. Two years in, this Government is failing on housing and the debacle over the Land Development Agency is just the latest example. We proposed almost 100 amendments to give that agency the powers it needed and they were all rejected by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Gavan: I was lucky enough to be able to attend a fair bit of the conference being held next door by Sadaka today. The theme is dismantling Israeli apartheid and developing Ireland's strategy. The keynote speaker was Michael Lynk, who is the UN special rapporteur on human rights for the occupied territories. He has written six reports and he was absolutely clear today that Israel is an apartheid...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...%. I disagree with him. I am sure he will be relieved to hear that as well. We are talking about investment funds paying zero capital gains tax on the disposal of their assets. When property or land is sold at a profit it is normal practice that it is subject to capital gains tax at 33%, which is payable within a few months of disposal. This applies to individuals and companies,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...€2 a week to a worker on a salary of €30,000 but will benefit those on a ministerial salary to the tune of €415 a year. This Finance Bill provides tax relief to those on high incomes and even further tax relief to landlords through section 16 but offers nothing to renters. These renters have seen their rents rise to astronomical levels yet have a Government that is...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...whatsoever with teachers, teaching unions or the National Parents Council. It was simply brought in. As usual, there were mixed messages in the early stages when it was first introduced. It landed on the laps of school principals and teachers. The direction given to schools was seen as an overly confrontational approach, which I believe is unnecessary. We need to be careful, when...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...about how desperate the housing crisis is and how much they are struggling. The Government has done absolutely nothing for them in this budget. It is a failure of the highest order. The talk of a zoned land tax is so disappointing. We all know about the crisis with vacant sites and the need to get people to develop on those sites. Rather than take action, what we have seen today from...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...we continue to facilitate the movement of US military through Shannon. Some 17,000 troops have already moved through Shannon this year. We continue to allow planes sending troops to war zones to land. Mid-air refuelling aircraft help the planes that are bombing to refuel so that they can continue to bomb, as they did last month in Syria and Iraq. I would like a debate on the issue...

Seanad: Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...Kenny to scrutinise the law governing the work practices of private security firms. I agree with Deputy Ó Laoghaire when he said then that the scenes were reminiscent of what happened during the famine and the land war, and that everything connected to those events is seared into our collective memory. It offends us emotionally to think of people being forced out of their homes...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...in support of this Bill. It is particularly important to be clear as to what constitutes an outdoor seating area and section 1 endeavours to do this. It specifies the seating must be on public land under licence or private land beside the premises and there must be no bar or counter within the seating area. Section 2 makes it clear there will be no drinks sold in the seating area. Of...