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- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I have not a notion of doing so until I have said what I have to say. The Minister will forgive me.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not mind how much time we waste. The bottom line is that we were to have a debate on an all-party motion, not a series of-----
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Keane e-mailed her entire group about this matter, as did Senator Paul Coghlan.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not have a notion of doing so until I am given an answer on this.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: The Cathaoirleach should suspend the House if he feels he must do that but let us not play charades.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Let us not play games.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: The Cathaoirleach will recall-----
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: The Cathaoirleach will recall that when I proposed this debate, I proposed that we would discuss the motion. I know that the Minister would be only too willing to discuss the motion.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: We are not going to play this game.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: That is fine. I will still be standing here when the House resumes.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I have already expressed my outrage at what has taken place this evening. Members on the other side of this House contacted councillors all over the country and told them that we would be debating No. 81, motion No. 10, an all-party motion with an amendment put forward by a number of Independents and me.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Could the Senator allow me to finish? I tabled an amendment seeking a review of the representational payment and the treatment of councillors in respect of PRSI, sick pay and pensions. Perhaps the Minister of State will tell me why when Members of this House get elected, they get a booklet giving them all their terms and conditions of employment. One of the things mentioned in this booklet...
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Not according to my freedom of information request.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: The Senator should care a bit more about them then.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: One could get the Independents to work with the parties but will the parties work with the Independents?
- Seanad: Local Government Review: Statements (26 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: How to go?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: It is "Alice in Wonderland".
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I support Senators Norris and Quinn. It is appalling that we would allow changes to the privileges and practices of this House without a debate.I have spoken many times on the issue of speaking time for people, such as myself, who are not members of groups or the way the House divides on party political grounds rather than on vocational panels which is what we are elected to. It would be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Why does that not surprise me?