Results 2,141-2,160 of 5,754 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I am afraid part of it is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Experienced people cannot be replaced by recruits.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: In fairness, a Chathaoirligh, we asked for the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Let the Taoiseach come in and do so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One would have to meet the cow.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One does not get a chance to respond to the Leader's response at the end of the Order of Business. Yesterday, he put up a sterling defence of the pay rise given to the Department of Defence people. Indeed he was correct. It was a 24% increase, not 25%. This means that 84.12% of members of the Defence Forces are 7% worse off than every other worker in this State based on averages. We also...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is based on a submission to the Public Service Pay Commission so it is not something I am dreaming.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I had the pleasure of entertaining the Historical and Reconciliatory Police, HARP, Society in Leinster House and hosted them for lunch. It is a combined society of police officers from Northern Ireland and the Republic and includes the old Dublin Metropolitan Police and Royal Irish Constabulary. That could not have happened without the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement. As we had...
- Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: To try to remain-----
- Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: At any rate----
- Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: -----if ever this State needed somebody with understanding and with a sensitivity to what exists between the traditions in Northern Ireland, it is now. I am proud to stand here and say that the Minister is that man. The Minister is aware that I have met unionist groups in Northern Ireland. Their praise for the Minister has been second to none due to the Minister's understanding, his...
- Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Only Senators Richmond and Mac Lochlainn are left to speak. The Minister must speak at 5.24 p.m. As such, I ask the Senators to facilitate that by dividing the remaining time between them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleagues who expressed their sympathy with the people of Toronto. If the tragedy in Toronto has thought us nothing else it has thought us that a simple vehicle can now be used by those who wish to wreak mayhem within a community. I also listened to the presentation by the hooded men today. My sympathy is with them and I congratulate the Tánaiste on meeting them. I hope...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It could go to Galway, too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: About two years ago in this House I asked a question on the HPV vaccine and I was damned by the keyboard warriors-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: No, not by the Leader. I was damned by the keyboard warriors as anti-vaccine, and it has plagued me ever since.Well, the keyboard warriors can stick this one into their agenda now. I am deeply concerned at the absence of the BCG vaccination, which was used for TB. I understand there are virtually no stocks of BCG left in the country. With the immigration that has taken place over the...
- Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for health promotion and the national drugs strategy, Deputy Catherine Byrne, to the House. I call Senator Reilly.
- Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I certainly will.
- Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I would like to address Senator Reilly as "Dr. Reilly" because he is talking about health today. I commend him on the introduction of this motion. I am one of the people about whom he spoke. I started to smoke at the age of 12. I walked to school so that I would have 3p to buy two cigarettes at the shop beside the school. By the time I was...
- Seanad: Smoking Ban: Motion (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I consider myself disciplined.