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- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Is it not the case that the proposer can put to the House-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Is it not something the proposer can put to the House and seek to have overruled?
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is interesting.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Were these not ruled out of order?
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: We are writing legislation that will be there long after us. It will be referred to by generations to come and there will be legal arguments over it, etc. It is just possible that a president of a technological university might not particularly like the president of the student union and might not want him or her anywhere near the academic council.The relevant line refers to such number of...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: This is the one area in which I will oppose the Minister of State 100%. She should consider what we believe today and what the man with the wig will interpret the relevant line to mean should it ever be tested. A dominant person in charge of a governing body could swing it towards doing what he or she wanted it to do and could, if he or she so wanted, exclude student representatives. The...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The excellent contribution of my colleague, Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell, has reassured me that I am 100% correct. In her final sentence, she indicated she doubted very much that there would be no student representatives on the academic council.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Having doubts that something will happen is not a guarantee that it will not happen. Long after I am pushing up daisies, some judge somewhere will make a ruling that there is no certainty in the relevant sentence of the Bill.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is too vague.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: He is the only person to have left Fianna Fáil more enlightened.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The amendment requires further discussion and should not be disposed of today.
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, is a man who understands child welfare as he has worked in the area. I believe he will see this amendment as a reasonable expectation for the State. It talks about a child. Today, we see the outcome of not having treated children correctly in the State. It costs this State hundreds of thousands in compensation for the way we treated the children of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Thank God for the monsignor.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleague, Senator Michael McDowell, in his comments with regard to Israel. During my time as president of the TUI, the organisation voted to have an academic boycott of Israel. It brought all hell down on us from both official and unofficial Israel. It does not like being told what to do. How dare it tell us what we can or cannot do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: About two weeks ago, I had a bit of a scare sitting in my car outside a retail store in south County Dublin. Such was the scare that I felt the need to call an ambulance. The ambulance came, collected me and brought me to the local accident and emergency unit within 25 minutes. Within two hours, I was seen by a cardiac specialist. Within eight hours I was seen by a consultant...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The Israeli ambassador might come in and we will have a word with him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is on a junction.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One bookseller has told people to go and buy books online.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I disagree. The Leader is right.