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

Gerard Craughwell: I am sorry for putting Mr. Cahill on the spot. He has done his job. He found that these life jackets were dangerous. My understanding is that they were not replaced until 2019 or 2020.

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

Gerard Craughwell: Is Mr. Cahill telling me that the boats did not put to sea for four or five years?

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

Gerard Craughwell: We bought these Rescue 400 life jackets and a short time later, following a test, Mr. Cahill said they were not safe.

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

Gerard Craughwell: I admire Mr. Cahill for testing them and for having the courage to stand up.

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

Gerard Craughwell: What I see here is an officer who had concerns, an opportunity to test something, and the courage of his convictions to stand over the failure of the life jackets. It is probably due to Mr. Cahill that we got the RNLI life jackets back. We had been using the RNLI life jacket before the Rescue 400 came into service and now we are back to the RNLI life jacket. As I said, I come from a...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Who votes for these representatives?

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

Gerard Craughwell: Sorry Chairman, but can I just come in here for a moment, please? I am shooting over the heads of our witnesses at this stage but there should be an independent survey of the 900 volunteers to determine what they want with respect to representation. Questions have arisen as a result of-----

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

Gerard Craughwell: -----our committee’s hearings on this issue which can be taken up directly with the Coast Guard. I appreciate the time that Mr. Murray has taken to come in here and I commend him on the work he does. I do not want Mr. Murray to feel that he has been given too hard a time when he was in here but it is the nature of the thing.

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

Gerard Craughwell: The Chairman has the floor now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Chairman. The gentlemen are very welcome. As a leader of a trade union in a former life, I only wish I had the commitment the IPU officers have. Their work on behalf of the members is second to none. The more questions we have heard this afternoon the more depressed I have become. I am almost about to go over to our guests and tell them to do themselves a favour by shutting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I would like the following to find its way into any report we might do: modern life and modern governance requires there is a return on investment by way of profit or whatever to the State. If we are going to give post offices €12 million we want to see what we are going to get back out of it. However, some things in life simply are not quantifiable. Mr. O'Hara put his finger on it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Do the post offices get a transaction payment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: If I buy stuff online or whatever-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Banks get a kickback on everything they do. I appreciate what Grant Thornton did and the macro view from a purely commercial point of view, but there is a side to the post office that is not commercial and cannot be quantified. I do not know how we can square that circle, and there is no answer the witnesses can give me today. I have listened to their answers and everything else. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On that very question, back in the day when I was a kid myself, when we were at school we had a post office savings book. I think it was stamps at the time, if I am not mistaken. We used to buy penny stamps or something and we would save up a fiver for Christmas or whatever. Do children use the saving services of the post office or do they all use the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I hope I have not reduced the union's argument by insisting there should be a public service fee available to postmasters and postmistresses. The sum of €12 million is a small amount of money to keep them alive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: As the Chair is speaking, I am thinking of my home county of Galway and the town of Athenry. Monivea and Menlo which are two small villages outside of Athenry. All have post offices. The banks are moving away from places such as Athenry and it is difficult to carry out any banking transaction. If Monivea and Menlo post offices close, then it does not matter what age I am, if I want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: One cannot pay for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome Mr. Owens. I am sorry that he was here, then we were gone and now we are back. That is the nature of committees. I am deeply impressed to hear that he was educated on Eblana Avenue. I spent 25 years right next door to him in the Senior College Dún Laoghaire, which later had classrooms on Eblana Avenue. There has been some change to the buildings in that sector. I have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Dr. Bedford very much for being here. I was watching the meeting online from the Seanad.