Results 3,161-3,180 of 5,762 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Probably not today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Role and Remuneration of Elected Local Authority Members: Discussion (5 Dec 2018) Gerard Craughwell: I am not a member of the committee but I make no apology for being here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Role and Remuneration of Elected Local Authority Members: Discussion (5 Dec 2018) Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Chairman. I am here to represent those who are my electorate, as any other politician does, and I make no apology for being here. The Minister of State needs to make up his mind about whether councillors are employees. If they are not, we need to talk about the allowances that are paid to them and we need to pay them the correct amount. The sort of figures that have been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Discussion (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State will forgive me for flinging a few questions at her before running out the door. I have a name for throwing the grenade and running anyway, but on this occasion I have other meetings arranged, so I apologise. I will start by congratulating the Minister of State and, more importantly, those officials who work on behalf of Ireland all over Europe - the ambassadors and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: We are reluctant to talk about politicians' pay, PRSI, etc.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not afraid to do so. When I was on the education committee, I initiated a report into class K PRSI and I initiated a High Court action against the State on county councillors' class K PRSI. The State capitulated and gave county councillors class S, while giving those who had joined me in the legal action a tidy sum for their trouble, without them having to go to court. However, the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I am sick to my back teeth of my PRSI record, which is broken because I moved from class A to class K. A man of advancing years like myself does not get an opportunity to maintain his PRSI record and were I to try to do that, it would cost me €5,000 per year, having taken €8,000 of a pay cut to sit in this seat. I am not afraid to talk about it because I am one of the few...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Noone has given an honest view on the crazy times they put these programmes on television.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One would not want to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I have no doubt the negativity will come anyway and I do not particularly care about it.
- Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One of the things that disappointed and upset me following the previous debate we had was an email I received suggesting that I am anti-Semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. I do not see this Bill as being about Israel and Palestine but about people profiting from what they steal. Quite frankly, we simply cannot allow one country to infringe the border of another, as has...
- Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: God bless Ryanair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I call for a debate in the House on the gross abuse of public money to defend indefensible cases. PDFORRA, the Defence Forces' representative body, has taken seven cases to date on the Working Time Directive and won each of them. The latest case cost the State €200,000 in legal fees and there was a five figure settlement for the claimant. This is nonsense. If the State is fully...
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is a point for debate and not a point of order.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is not a point of order in this case.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The statements are under Standing Orders so it is not a point of order. Can we proceed because we are really tight on time.