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Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I support everything Senator Boyhan said in respect of local authorities.I was sitting in my office listening to Senator Ruane. Many people have spoken about her community today. Senator Ruane's community is my community. A person I loved dearly died because of addiction. It is the most horrible death. It is not something you will only find in the poorer areas of society. You will find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Captains Cullen and Brereton are welcome before the committee. Captain Cullen is an aviator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have often heard it said that if we applied the same rules to medicine as we apply to aviation, fewer people would die in operating theatres and the like. Aviation has a track record of being regulated and of being totally and utterly committed to rules, regulations and cross-checking that is second to none. That is the first point I want to make. Captain Brereton dealt with the peer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Our guests have been dealing with the Department of Transport for quite a number of years. Who is the aviation expert in the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: We are also entitled to hear if the captain and his members are engaging with aviators or with people who-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask our guests to explain in more detail their concerns around the Bureau Veritas report that the Minister referred to in the Dáil and Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Lighthouses are mentioned in IALPA's charts, as are some peaks, including on the Skelligs. The charts are very frightening. I believe the highest point of the Skelligs is 714 m tall and they are included in the chart at 147 m, if I am not mistaken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Are the Skelligs on a flight path into the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have a few questions about the issue of security. Anecdotally, I have been told about pilots having been handed packages by the company, for example. It might be cash that has been raised on an outward flight and it is given to them in a sealed bag to be brought home. That does not make for good security. Certainly, in my military career, I would not have taken a bag like that. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask the Chairman to forgive me for going over time but I sought a suspension of the debate in the Seanad because I am so deeply concerned about what is going on here. Will Mr. Cullen explain what is going with the local runway issue at Dublin Airport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: There are some suggestions that what IALPA is seeking cuts way across EU and ICAO regulations. Has the association taken any legal advice on its amendments? Can Mr. Cullen state, with hand on heart, that he knows IALPA is correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It has been said, as Mr. Cullen noted, that primary legislation is not the place for IALPA's amendments. If they are not included in primary legislation, how can we meet the needs of pilots, that is, the people who sit in the cockpit with 300 or 400 lives sitting behind them? I cannot emphasise enough the importance of the peer support group, which absolutely must be independent of every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I accept we will discuss this as a committee in private session, but I believe the legislation should not progress until an independent aviation expert appears before us and explains why these amendments should not be made to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Brereton very much indeed for his time. I ask them to keep us in the loop as things move on. It is extremely important. It is the lives of passengers I am really interested in. These guys do a professional job but the passengers are the ones I am concerned for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (15 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Cullen very much indeed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Mr. Feeney is very welcome. I admire his openness and willingness to listen and answer questions. If I may, I will focus on social media, although I know he has been fairly well quizzed on it. In a recent radio programme, I listened to a lady who was the owner of a bed and breakfast down the country. In seeking to put up an image on her website, she googled a particular part of her local...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: In its search engine tools, Google provides people with a facility to check the copyright of photographs. There are many sites that you can buy the images from. I was rather shocked to find that my own image is copyrighted, not by me, but by the person who took the photograph. I fully understand that. I wish to raise another sensitive issue concerning the media in general. The august...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Indeed. Many of my party colleagues right now would probably say that my Independent Group gets more publicity than any of them, which may or may not be true. I want to talk to Mr. Feeney very briefly about the area of litigation in Ireland. The printed press, particularly, and, indeed, both TV stations and all radio stations operating in the Republic, are extremely sensitive to the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: If we look at a defamation case where the ordinary working guy, Joe Bloggs, is minding his own business and gets mentioned in a newspaper, nobody would be afraid to mention his name. The worst-case scenario is that if the newspaper has defamed him in some way, it will cost a couple of thousand euro whereas if it affects a person with a high profile, as Mr. Feeney rightly pointed out, it...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Mr. Feeney raised another issue with me.