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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: The Defence Forces' representative bodies were asked to come to the Department of Defence over two weeks ago to be briefed but they were then told not to come in and to go home.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We know all that.

Seanad: Death of Former Member - Expressions of Sympathy (13 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Robb family here today. I did not know their father which I admit at the outset. From reading about his life, I know that at the time he came to Seanad Éireann he was a trauma surgeon from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and he knew exactly the country he was dealing with and exactly the conflict that was going on in his part of the country. He took the brave step...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): Institute of International and European Affairs (12 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I apologise to the witnesses; during their presentation I was involved in legislation in the Senate and I do not have time to go into great detail here. One of the documents before me is entitled The Specific Character of Ireland's Security and Defence Policy. Reflections on neutrality is mentioned. One of the great challenges for us relates directly to our defence policy. We no longer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): Institute of International and European Affairs (12 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I am chairman of the German-Irish parliamentary friendship group and have just left a meeting of it. We were talking about the situation in the North of Ireland. It was really heartening to hear them place in order several issues in terms of their importance. For them, the first and most important issue is the maintenance of the Good Friday Agreement. The second is the integrity of the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: As Senator McDowell pointed out, take the case of a judge, a person from a lower court and someone who had not had a judicial appointment all in the same pool. Apart from anything else, say a High Court judge failed to get appointed to the Court of Appeal and somebody from a lower court was appointed instead, then there would be reputational damage to the High Court judge. I am a little...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: While it is okay for the Minister to state in this Chamber that there is no conspiracy involved, the people to whom this applies may interpret that there is some sort of conspiracy going on and seek to have this part of the legislation examined before the courts. One cannot have different selection procedures for the same post. The selection procedure has to be the same for all applicants....

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I find myself disagreeing with the senior counsel, former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and former Attorney General on this particular issue. I am just going back to public appointments procedures. It is almost written in stone that the procedures have to be the same for all applicants. If I were in a competition where a person who currently holds a judicial position could...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Where does the candidate see himself or herself in five years?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Following on from my colleague's contribution, assuming we find questions, those questions would have to have a marking scheme associated with them in order to be able to list the best answers from the worst answers. I find the whole thing unbelievable at this stage. Somebody will have to draft the questions and, as Senator McDowell said, what questions will we ask and how do we decide?...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator McDowell speaks as a former Minister for Justice and Equality.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: An interview board might be look at that-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It did already.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That is the one which Fine Gael applies.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Noone has thrown a new can of worms into the equation.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: As my colleague said, where a judge is interviewed for the first time before he or she is appointed to a superior court - he or she may make it to Chief Justice - his or her organisational skills will be so important. How are those organisational skills to be tested at the point of entry if judges are not to be interviewed as they move along? We are back to the questions an individual...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Pro-equality in interviews.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Give us a liberal.

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, lines 19 and 20, to delete all words from and including "Betting" in line 19 down to and including line 20 and substitute the following:"Betting Act 1931; 'remote gaming' means gaming in which persons participate by the use of remote communication; 'remote gaming machine' means any instrument of gaming which is facilitated by remote communication; 'remote...

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Boyhan has seconded it.