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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: He is not a Minister.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Who holds the portfolio?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That is very kind of the Leader.

Seanad: Farm Safety Agency Bill 2018: Second Stage (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Ms Möller for appearing before the committee today and providing us with a good overview of the work of her organisation. It is quite interesting and is the type of thing I could find myself playing with in the evenings as I try to figure out the relationships that exist across the European Union. I am looking at the screen before me and specifically at Poland and the tiny blue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We tend to migrate towards the bigger powers and look to them to build the coalition and we want to be a member rather than a leader. Has Ms Möller's study shown any capacity for small countries to exercise soft power and bring together a coalition, and hence bring the large blocks to join rather than going cap in hand to larger blocks, as it were?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State to the committee. Her contributions are always very informative. We were concerned that the European Parliament elections would have a scattergun outcome with moves to the far right and left but they seem to have converged towards the centre. I do not see a great threat to the European ideal emerging from the incoming Parliament. My colleagues mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I would be interested in whatever plans the Government has in place in that regard. The Minister of State, the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach have done a great deal in getting Ireland ready for Brexit. I should not leave out our officials both nationally and internationally who have been incredible in the work they have done. I am blown away by what I see as I travel throughout Europe....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That rules me out so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes, exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We can tunnel under the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I address Commandant Keogh, Commandant King and Lieutenant Colonel Priestley by their rank because together they represent more than 60 years experience as leaders in the Defence Forces. They come before us with no mean credentials. It is an unique step they have taken to come here and I am delighted they are present. I made a complaint some time ago when the Department of Defence sought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: There was a question about the legal responsibility of leaders in the field where there are young officers taking on several roles, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I wish to make two brief points, one concerning the Chief of Staff. We must acknowledge that at the PDFORRA conference he did something that I believe no previous Chief of Staff has done. He stepped outside and placed his cards firmly on the table, and short of doing what Commandant Berry has done in placing his hat on the Taoiseach's table and saying, "I am out of here if you do not do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: May I ask one question? I believe there were 365 NCO vacancies last year or the year before. I cannot remember the exact number but it was more than 300. How did that arise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: As Senator McDowell pointed out, take the case of a judge, a person from a lower court and someone who had not had a judicial appointment all in the same pool. Apart from anything else, say a High Court judge failed to get appointed to the Court of Appeal and somebody from a lower court was appointed instead, then there would be reputational damage to the High Court judge. I am a little...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: While it is okay for the Minister to state in this Chamber that there is no conspiracy involved, the people to whom this applies may interpret that there is some sort of conspiracy going on and seek to have this part of the legislation examined before the courts. One cannot have different selection procedures for the same post. The selection procedure has to be the same for all applicants....

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I find myself disagreeing with the senior counsel, former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and former Attorney General on this particular issue. I am just going back to public appointments procedures. It is almost written in stone that the procedures have to be the same for all applicants. If I were in a competition where a person who currently holds a judicial position could...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Where does the candidate see himself or herself in five years?