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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Down with that sort of thing now.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:“(VI) refurbishment that meets a per square foot value investment as set by regulations published by the Minister for properties that are pre 1963,”. I welcome the Minister. I appreciate his urgency regarding this Bill but this amendment has the backing of this country's leading expert in...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I am trying to put some important facts on the record.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: A heat pump operates most efficiently at a narrow-operating delta-T temperature range and would be very inefficient and costly to operate in such a home. A demand-response heating system, such as oil or gas boilers, would be much more effective. Under the current rules it can be practically impossible to obtain window energy performance certification for bespoke wooden sash windows. It can...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That is outrageous. I do not need anybody to write amendments for me. The amendment is based on professional advice from one of the leading BER consultants, Mr. Liam Donohoe, registered SEAI BER assessor and heat pump technical adviser, of Glen of Imaal. That is who gave me the information I needed.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for his considered response. Like everyone else, I want to ensure that tenants have good quality accommodation. When I went to London as a young man of 15 and a half years of age, I recall having to share a single room with four other men whom I did not even know. That was the name of the game in those days. I remember the landlady charging us 10 shillings a week for...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I will not take lectures from anybody.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: What I was discussing here was not something to enrich landlords, it was the engineering difficulties that exist in the context of bringing pre-1963 properties up to standard. The grave danger we have is that single property owners of many pre-1963 properties will find it too expensive to upgrade and that those properties will be placed on the market or will be left to just sit there. We...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: This morning I received the following letter from Mrs. Bernadette Quinlan and I wish to place it on the record of the House.Shy, lovely, gentle, dependable, carefree, happy young lad, very much into his fitness (some words used by his fellow soldiers and close friends to describe Matt [Quinlan]). He loved the Army, and was proud to be a soldier. The last time I saw my brother Matt (Private...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Lucky woman.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleagues in congratulating those who put themselves forward for election. I first spoke in this House about the issue of remuneration for county councillors in 2014. Nothing has happened since.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Nothing has happened since. If the Leader is talking about promises, and I do not know why he always feels he has to attack when I stand up and tell the truth-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader talks about promises-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: If the Leader is talking about promises, his party has made more promises than I care to think of to councillors around the country that they will be sorted out.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It was definitely happening at Hallowe'en and then it was going to happen sometime else.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It has been well and truly discussed at this stage. This morning, we turned on our radios and listened to Commandant Cathal Berry, one of Ireland's finest soldiers, a man who joined the cadets, became a ranger, took leave of absence over five years, became a medical doctor and eventually took over as the officer commanding at the Curragh medical college. That man left the Defence Forces...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We are told that the Department of Defence has it. Why do the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO, and the Permanent Defence Force Other Ranks Representative Association, PDFORRA, not have it? I understand that the representative bodies were sent for to be told what was in the commission's report, were promptly dismissed without being given a copy of the report, and do...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: He is not Minister for Defence.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That is outrageous.