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- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Not knowing who gets it or where it goes is unsettling for everyone involved. I can even imagine how demotivating it must be for highly trained, committed and generous staff to have an important token of appreciation withheld from them. I fully support the amendment and hope the Minister of State sees fit to support it.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Very, very briefly -----
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: We have all, at some stage, worked in the hospitality sector. We knew the abuses that went on with bad employers. In my youth, I worked in a hotel where staff had to work a week in hand and would be get paid at the end of the second week. The employer fired everyone on the Thursday of the second week-----
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: -----so he never had to pay us. The employer was renowned for it. There are great employers out there and we must recognise them. We were talking about students. I received letters from the president of the Union of Students of Ireland on this.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: There are great employers and we must recognise them. I hope that the amendment will be accepted.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (20 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I agree with much of what my colleague has said, but I would like to bring the focus back home. In 2016, the day after the referendum, I wrote an article on the re-establishment of a Border on this island. At the time, it was scoffed at by many as an impossibility. It is not quite so impossible now. I would like to know what steps has the Government taken to bring back the corporate...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: It has been brought to my attention that the Leader of this House believes the ongoing debate on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017 is bringing the House into disrepute. It has been said that the almost 90 hours we have been debating the Bill has damaged the reputation of the Seanad.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: As I said, it has been said that the time debating this legislation has damaged the reputation of the Seanad and, by implication, the reputation of all Members of the Seanad. While I do not know where the Leader has formed this view or what papers he is reading, since the commencement of debate in the Seanad, the following bodies have expressed their views. The Council of Europe's Group of...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I have a question for the Leader. Are those of us doing our damnedest to oppose this legislation by scrutinising and trying to change it the enemy from within or is allowing one single elected Member of Dáil Éireann to fundamentally interfere with the central tenet of our democracy the enemy?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: We all know the political responsibilities and pressures that the Leader of this House has to endure to ensure the Government programme passes through it but for him to intertwine-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: By intertwining the fate or reputation of the Seanad with this legislation the Leader is being derogatory to the House.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Nobody reading the transcript of the 90 hours of debate or witnessing it live could fault the quality of what is being debated or the public service benefit-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: -----of having a former Tánaiste, Minister for justice and Attorney General to point out, line by line and word by word, how awful this legislation is and how dangerous it is to the independence and quality of the Judiciary. I ask the Leader not to sully the reputation of this House because the political demands and pressures placed on him. Thank God for the checks and balances built...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: The only reason the Irish people believe this House-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I am prepared to stand here all day if that is what it takes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Snide remarks were made about this having been prepared by a senior counsel. It was not prepared by a senior counsel.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: It is a prepared script because the matter is important.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: The point I am trying to make is that if it takes from now until hell freezes over, we will continue to debate this awful Bill to see to it that it is changed into something worthwhile or the Government wakes up and scraps it altogether.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Which statement was factually incorrect?