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

Gerard Craughwell: Following on from my colleague's contribution, assuming we find questions, those questions would have to have a marking scheme associated with them in order to be able to list the best answers from the worst answers. I find the whole thing unbelievable at this stage. Somebody will have to draft the questions and, as Senator McDowell said, what questions will we ask and how do we decide?...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Senator McDowell speaks as a former Minister for Justice and Equality.

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

Gerard Craughwell: An interview board might be look at that-----

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

Gerard Craughwell: It did already.

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

Gerard Craughwell: That is the one which Fine Gael applies.

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

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Noone has thrown a new can of worms into the equation.

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

Gerard Craughwell: As my colleague said, where a judge is interviewed for the first time before he or she is appointed to a superior court - he or she may make it to Chief Justice - his or her organisational skills will be so important. How are those organisational skills to be tested at the point of entry if judges are not to be interviewed as they move along? We are back to the questions an individual...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Pro-equality in interviews.

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

Gerard Craughwell: Give us a liberal.

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, lines 19 and 20, to delete all words from and including "Betting" in line 19 down to and including line 20 and substitute the following:"Betting Act 1931; 'remote gaming' means gaming in which persons participate by the use of remote communication; 'remote gaming machine' means any instrument of gaming which is facilitated by remote communication; 'remote...

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Boyhan has seconded it.

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I am sure one of my colleagues will oblige me.

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: The purpose of this amendment is to include those organisations which carry on gambling and betting online, by telephone, through television sets, via radio and by way of other types of electronic betting. I have received legal advice that the Bill as drafted would make promotion of all gambling without a gaming permit illegal. As the definition of gaming in the Bill is not limited in its...

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate the Minister of State's bona fides on this. I am trying to achieve a level playing pitch for terrestrial and the extra-terrestrial organisations. When we discuss the various gaming houses in town there will be a migration from organisations where human beings are watching what is happening and able to intervene where they see compulsive gambling and gaming. Consider the...

Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides. I will withdraw the amendment on the understanding that the Minister of State will bring something back in the near future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): Institute of International and European Affairs (12 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I apologise to the witnesses; during their presentation I was involved in legislation in the Senate and I do not have time to go into great detail here. One of the documents before me is entitled The Specific Character of Ireland's Security and Defence Policy. Reflections on neutrality is mentioned. One of the great challenges for us relates directly to our defence policy. We no longer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): Institute of International and European Affairs (12 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I am chairman of the German-Irish parliamentary friendship group and have just left a meeting of it. We were talking about the situation in the North of Ireland. It was really heartening to hear them place in order several issues in terms of their importance. For them, the first and most important issue is the maintenance of the Good Friday Agreement. The second is the integrity of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Needs Assistants (13 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Please allow the Minister of State to respond.

Seanad: Visit of Lebanese Delegation (13 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Before I call on the next speaker, I am sure Members of the House will join me in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Gebran Bassil, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of Lebanon. On my own behalf and that of colleagues in Seanad Éireann, I extend a very warm welcome to him and offer my good wishes for a very successful visit to Ireland.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna (Atógáil) - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Homelessness Strategy (13 Jun 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator has made his point.