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

Gerard Craughwell: I am sure one of my colleagues will oblige me.

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

Gerard Craughwell: The purpose of this amendment is to include those organisations which carry on gambling and betting online, by telephone, through television sets, via radio and by way of other types of electronic betting. I have received legal advice that the Bill as drafted would make promotion of all gambling without a gaming permit illegal. As the definition of gaming in the Bill is not limited in its...

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

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate the Minister of State's bona fides on this. I am trying to achieve a level playing pitch for terrestrial and the extra-terrestrial organisations. When we discuss the various gaming houses in town there will be a migration from organisations where human beings are watching what is happening and able to intervene where they see compulsive gambling and gaming. Consider the...

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

Gerard Craughwell: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides. I will withdraw the amendment on the understanding that the Minister of State will bring something back in the near future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I address Commandant Keogh, Commandant King and Lieutenant Colonel Priestley by their rank because together they represent more than 60 years experience as leaders in the Defence Forces. They come before us with no mean credentials. It is an unique step they have taken to come here and I am delighted they are present. I made a complaint some time ago when the Department of Defence sought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: There was a question about the legal responsibility of leaders in the field where there are young officers taking on several roles, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I wish to make two brief points, one concerning the Chief of Staff. We must acknowledge that at the PDFORRA conference he did something that I believe no previous Chief of Staff has done. He stepped outside and placed his cards firmly on the table, and short of doing what Commandant Berry has done in placing his hat on the Taoiseach's table and saying, "I am out of here if you do not do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: May I ask one question? I believe there were 365 NCO vacancies last year or the year before. I cannot remember the exact number but it was more than 300. How did that arise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I propose an amendment to the Order to Business, that No. 4, Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 - Committee Stage, be adjourned at 5 p.m. and that No. 83, motion 9, which is Private Members' business, be taken at that stage. This is just to give certainty and clarity to those who wish to speak on it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: No. 83, motion 9, which is Private Members' business.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I want clarity so that people who wish to engage in that debate will have certainty about the starting time. Last night, the Taoiseach uttered the famous words that many a football manager has been awarded, namely, "I have full confidence". He has full confidence in the Minister of State at the Department of Defence, yet the Defence Forces are falling apart. The Taoiseach threw out a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It was leaked last week. I d6id not leak it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: He is not a Minister.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Who holds the portfolio?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That is very kind of the Leader.

Seanad: Farm Safety Agency Bill 2018: Second Stage (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Ms Möller for appearing before the committee today and providing us with a good overview of the work of her organisation. It is quite interesting and is the type of thing I could find myself playing with in the evenings as I try to figure out the relationships that exist across the European Union. I am looking at the screen before me and specifically at Poland and the tiny blue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We tend to migrate towards the bigger powers and look to them to build the coalition and we want to be a member rather than a leader. Has Ms Möller's study shown any capacity for small countries to exercise soft power and bring together a coalition, and hence bring the large blocks to join rather than going cap in hand to larger blocks, as it were?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State to the committee. Her contributions are always very informative. We were concerned that the European Parliament elections would have a scattergun outcome with moves to the far right and left but they seem to have converged towards the centre. I do not see a great threat to the European ideal emerging from the incoming Parliament. My colleagues mentioned...