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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Annual Report of European Court of Auditors: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Erasmus+ was discussed at length, but it is an area of particular interest to me, as it marries with the issue of youth unemployment and is an programme for apprenticeships. There was some talk about expanding it. I believe a trial module is being run somewhere, but it could be expanded to include a much wider audience. Is that something at which Mr. Murphy is looking? What future does he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Annual Report of European Court of Auditors: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: From an EU funding point of view, taking broadband as an example, if a member state decides that it is going to provide broadband through fibre optics cables, while other more advanced member states are using 4G and 5G to provide broadband, will the EU committee take a view on how the funding should be used? Does it tell us that our idea is bad and that we should do something different?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Annual Report of European Court of Auditors: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Is the figure of 703 taken from a random sample?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Annual Report of European Court of Auditors: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Surely the advice of the European Court of Auditors must be sought, given that the impact of Brexit may be catastrophic when there is no funding coming from the United Kingdom. Budgets will have to shrink at a rapid pace.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Annual Report of European Court of Auditors: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I come from a background in0 further education. In the early 1990s there was a tendency for people to enter into further education and never leave it; they just moved from course to course. They qualified in everything but still went nowhere. I have always felt the rule should be that once someone completes a programme, he or she should move on. If we only move people from one training...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Temple-Smithson for his presentation. I am delighted that he is heading off on this route to bring Europe to the people on a county-by-country basis. It is no reflection on Mr. Temple-Smithson, but it is a pity we have not been doing that all along. Every day, we pass buildings or bridges with signage saying that it was funded through a partnership programme with the EU and we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: On the young vote, it greatly disturbed me that when a Bill introduced in the Seanad recently to extend the vote to 16 year olds for local, European and presidential elections was shot down. If young people aged 16 and upwards are brought into the electoral process, we have them for life. Let us hope this Government or the next will revisit the matter. It is of great importance that we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I assume the Deputy's party would second-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I should point out that the busy funerals the Chairman is speaking of are those where everyone goes in to look at the corpse. Then, they come out to look at their neighbours and say, "God, he looked well, did he not?"
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: In recent months, I have had time to sit down and think about what happened between 2008 and the current day. Between 2011 and 2014, I was actively involved in some of the cuts that were made to the salaries paid to public servants. Members of my union at the time, the Teachers' Union of Ireland, were thrown into income poverty and I remember that my own net salary fell by €1,000....
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: We have to ensure that we are all in it together and that we are all suffering in the same way. While we are at it then, we might start trawling around ministerial offices to see how many special advisers have had top-ups on their salaries, because public servants do not have that option open to them. By the way, neither does the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: He cannot go into the Taoiseach and tell him that he is a special guy and he deserves an extra €20,000 a year because he will not get it. Let us try to be a little honest with public servants.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It had nothing to do with the presidential election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I said from the top of Irish society. I also raised the salary.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: An tUachtarán McAleese, fair play to her.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That topped up the salaries of certain people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Slowly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It was a comment-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: With respect, the Leader is not dealing with the issue. Top-ups and the disregard for the special jobs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Fair play.