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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: It is a worthwhile endeavour.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: It is no secret that I was never a member of a local authority so I am speaking to my experience in this House. I listened to the presentations downstairs in my office and I found myself asking whether we really know what we are doing in the Houses of the Oireachtas to local authorities. In recent years, we stripped county councillors of memberships of boards and of policing and security...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Okay, I am trying to. It was written by the authority that we were trying to regulate. It wrote its own legislation. The only Minister who ever liaised with me on legislation for local authority was Deputy Phelan and he was accommodating at the end of the day, albeit with both arms tied behind his back. I am not a party member but the witnesses are. They have been Ministers and are...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Maybe Deputy Phelan should answer that.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: You would want to give it for next week as well.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: My famous victory.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: If Deputy Phelan had not got married, he could have merged the Galway councils.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: At the outset, I record my sympathy to the family of Councillor Pat Hynes in Galway, who sadly passed away this morning. Pat is the uncle of Geraldine Donohue, who works here with Senator Boyhan. I would also like to remember Corporal Tadhg Quinn, one of the Jadotville heroes denied a medal, who passed away today. Yesterday, there was an attack on me in the House about having my photograph...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 1: After the last paragraph under "calls on the Government to:", to insert the following paragraphs: " - restore the pensions of members of An Garda Síochána to what it was pre-2008 and remove the requirement for post-1996 retirees to sign on for jobseekers benefit while awaiting access to full pension; - implement the recommendations listed in multiple...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I compliment Senator Moynihan on bringing forward the Labour Party motion. As she spoke, I had visions of my youth where there was one garda in Salthill in Galway and that one garda was able to police the entire holiday resort. I remember a row breaking out one night in Salthill and the garda stood in the middle of the road and put the two opposing sides on either side the street and nobody...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Limerick is a city today in which we do not have huge crime. It is a pleasurable city to visit. It was done by co-operation across the board between communities, gardaí, and elected representatives in Limerick who had a direct line into the Garda station. Where there was a problem, it was possible to fix it. The Minister must fix the terms and conditions of employment for...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 2: After the last paragraph under “calls on the Government to:”, to insert the following paragraph: “- ensure that the important role played by local authority members in policing is protected by granting them equivalent duties and representation in the new Safety Partnerships and by appointing a designated Garda who can act as a contact for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask that Sinn Féin might have a look at two opinion pieces on security in Northern Ireland that are published in The America Timestoday, both of which were written by me, one addressing the issue of closing the-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: One article is addressing the issue of closing the back door and the other one addressing the issue of the changing security concerns of the UK because of our failure to provide proper defence for this island. That party might read these articles and it might awaken a few things.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I have here a copy of Bunreacht na hÉireann-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I have here Bunreacht na hÉireann-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I will not take any lectures-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I am not speaking to the Cathaoirleach but I will not take lectures from people who were terrorists on this island and who terrorised my mother and my father back in 1974. Do not give me any of that rubbish.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Getting back to the Order of Business, Articles 18 and 19 of Bunreacht na hÉireann deal with the elections of the Seanad and I ask the Leader to organise a debate with the Minister on the next election for the Seanad. Every day, I sit in here and hear some small few colleagues talking about their constituency. We do not have a constituency. We are national politicians. This is a...