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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I was about to withdraw my happy Christmas and prosperous new year, but I will not.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I know the Leader cares deeply about legislation and ensuring that it has a safe passage through the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It is for this reason that I ask the Leader to withdraw No. 7 from the Order of Business today. I will put forward an amendment to that effect. The Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is important.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes, I propose that No. 7 be deleted.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I am.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: If I may, the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is extremely important, albeit severely flawed, and I am totally opposed to it.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I think the Leader will agree that nobody is stopping the traffic on Kildare Street and demanding that this Bill is pushed through the House. Not even the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is out screaming that it be passed today.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask that this Bill be deferred until January in order that we might devote sufficient time to it. There has been an extensive amount of debate on the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Buttimer may call it that. I would call it-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: -----scrutinising the legislation, which is what we are paid to do. I ask that the Bill be withdrawn from the Order of Business. I hope I will have a seconder and support. I thank the Leas-Cathaoirleach for his time and for his even-handed management of this morning's sitting.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader hopes.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the staff of the Seanad and the staff of the Oireachtas for their work throughout the year and for the efforts they go to, particularly in the Seanad office, to facilitate our every request. I wish them and theirs a happy Christmas and a prosperous new year. I thank the Leader for the courtesy he has shown throughout the year. We have not always agreed but the Leader has always...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Regrettably, the British Prime Minister has decided to play a sort of brinksmanship game. We read this morning that troops have been mobilised to prepare for a hard Brexit. Earlier this week, Brigadier General Ger Aherne retired and he gave a detailed interview to Seán O'Rourke on Radio One, with respect to the lack of preparedness in Ireland regarding to the management of a border....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The one thing we need to do is engage now before we finish up with patients in hospitals with no nurses to look after them. We heard of 35 nurses this week who could not get a working visa. That is outrageous in the current environment. The Minister must bring in the unions and find out how we can move forward. The pay deal has not worked. It has been rejected by the majority of the key...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I am also a member of the commission, and I also welcome this Bill. It provides for important aspects of the running of the House. I particularly welcome the addition of the PBO, which will provide independent budgetary information to Members, and the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers. I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister of State for bringing it to the House. I will support it.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not intend to take much of the Minister of State's time. Like my colleagues, Senators Buttimer, Colm Burke and Lombard, I fully support everything he is trying to do in Cork. The negotiations in Cork were difficult and there are probably still difficulties there. Over time, I hope those difficulties will iron themselves out as they have in Limerick and Waterford. For the most part, I...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader is a little sensitive.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I would not do it to the Leader.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 10:In page 32, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "Waterford," in line 31 down to and including line 32 and substitute "Waterford;". I do not intend to delay the House tonight.