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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Cathal Brugha Barracks is 100 years old today. A parade is being held in the barracks to celebrate. It is rather distressing to me that the bourgeois Green Party of the middle class wants to see Cathal Brugha Barracks bulldozed to the ground to provide a site for property for the well-heeled in south County Dublin. Cathal Brugha barracks is a vital part of Dublin's infrastructure and of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: To the barracks, of course. I do not often agree with my colleague Senator Ó Donnghaile, but Sinn Féin had a tremendous win in the Northern election. In my lifetime, we now have a situation where a nationalist group should be in control in the North of Ireland. Due to the Good Friday Agreement, which is respected by all, there is a shared responsibility. In that context, it is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. In recent times capital projects have been questioned. People ask how the national children's hospital went from €600 million to possibly €2 billion, or more. It is no secret that I have had a huge interest in search and rescue. I have been spending a considerable amount of my time and that of the House trying to get to the bottom of what...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is the first time the Senator was ever called that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: First, I join with my colleague, Senator Wall, and I am sure with the Acting Leader, in welcoming the accession of PDFORRA to ICTU. However, it is outrageous that RACO has not been granted the same permission. I call today on the Minister for Defence to immediately address that. There are pay talks ongoing right now and they need to be there. There has been much talk recently about mental...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State is welcome to the House. I thank him. It would have been good to hear his presentation in full. This is a very comprehensive piece of work. Clearly, the Minister of State has engaged right across all sectors to try to bring forward the best possible legislation in this area. Protected disclosure is something that has bothered me quite considerably since I came into...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order, in future when we are setting out times on the Order of Business for a legislative measure as large as this the Minister needs more time.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Payment of Interns) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank my colleagues from the Labour Party. In the best traditions of the Labour Party, they introduced legislation for workers. I know Senator Sherlock did a lot of work on this. I have a difficulty with the proposed new provision in section 1, namely, section 2A(b), which refers to situations where "the worker does not expect and has no reason to expect payment". I see a loophole there...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I recently congratulated PDFORRA on its accession to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU. I have been informed that in order to be allowed to accede to associate membership of ICTU, the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO, must go to the courts. This is a human resources issue, an IR issue, not a legal issue. I fail to understand why we are compelling RACO to go...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the ambassador on behalf of the Independent non-aligned group and wish him a wonderful day. Greater love hath no one than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. On this day 23 years ago at 5.30 a.m., the 85th Infantry Battalion came under fire at post 642. Private Billy Kedian was awoken by the sound of mortars going off. In order that the people who were on duty could...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: No. My apologies. The citations have been written up but a medals board has not sat.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister to the House. I disagree with the amendment. I look at the situation in Galway right now with Derrybrien. I believe we should be in the situation where we can review-----

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I will sit down for a few moments to get my thoughts together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The witnesses are very welcome to this hearing. I congratulate them on putting together a representative body because, based on what we have before us and what we have heard in the past, there is no representative body for the rank and file. I was involved with voluntary organisations for quite a lot of my young life but I was never involved in an organisation from which people could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: All of the witnesses are senior members of the Irish Coast Guard Volunteers Representative Association. Will they give me some idea of the level of morale within the organisation? Given that all members are volunteers, I am sure that morale is needed to keep people going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The volunteers have no right to engage with the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: These people are volunteers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have two more questions. I turn first to the issue of life jackets. If there is discomfort with this issue, I ask the witnesses to let me know. I have travelled around the country and I have spoken to people. The Rescue 400 life jacket - I think that is what it was called - was brought into service. How long was it in service before it was decommissioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: When was it taken out of service?