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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Would politics get in the way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: On the issue of the common travel area, I am extremely grateful to both academics for addressing the common travel area. Like Irish neutrality, it is not quite as straightforward as we would like to think. This is something this committee needs to look at in far more detail because there is an assumption that there are rights that exist between Irish citizens and UK citizens but which are...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I join Members in offering sympathy to the family of Ms Jastine Valdez. It is a beautiful part of the country and it is hard to imagine that a young lady walking along and minding her own business could be grabbed and murdered. I also offer my sympathy to the family of Mark Hennessy whose wife and two children will be left trying to explain matters to themselves if it is proved that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Committee of the Regions: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the representatives for attending and I thank Councillor Murphy for leading the Irish delegation. I am sure he has left his colleagues in no doubt as to what to expect. There was a question earlier about the cross-Border institutions. Our waterways are managed from the North of Ireland. Consider feeding one's cattle in the top field in the North of Ireland in the morning and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: On the issue of insurance, it so happens that yesterday I received my renewal notice for my house and car insurance.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: My car insurance has gone down by €20 to €380 fully comprehensive for a 2 l car-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: -----and my house insurance has gone down by €200. I do not know if people are going to the right brokers. There has been much debate in recent weeks with respect to the eighth amendment, and there have been fairly serious debates on both sides. A lady approached me and asked me a question. When a public patient in this country is referred to the care of an obstetrician, she does...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: -----given that it may have an effect, not necessarily on the treatment because I believe all doctors will act professionally, but on the mindset?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It is an important issue. Any time I have needed a consultant I have had a choice and I have been able to ask people about different consultants. I once had a consultant allocated to me to whom I would not bring my beagle. Is this something that needs to be considered in the future in the post-referendum days?

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Minister, this is my first time to address you in the House. You are very welcome and you have the floor.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: That is a fair point.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister might refrain from naming him.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: That is fine but we should not name people who are not here.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for his positive summation. The next item, marine protection, is not due to start until 6 p.m.

Seanad: Rural Development: Statements (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Marine Protection: Motion (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Can my amendment be moved after the others are dealt with?

Seanad: Marine Protection: Motion (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that. I welcome the Minister of State and Senator Grace O'Sullivan's motion. There are few people in this House who are as well qualified to speak as Senator O'Sullivan on this issue. With all due respect to my colleague, Senator Coffey, from the south east, "give us marine protected areas, dear lord, but not just yet", tends to be the Government's answer to most things. It...

Seanad: Marine Protection: Motion (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It is on the Order Paper. We will organise that for the Senator in a moment. I call Senator Kelleher.

Seanad: Marine Protection: Motion (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Marine Protection: Motion (23 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I think it is rather wrong to assume that anybody would be playing politics here. We all have a genuine interest in our environment.