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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not deny or reject anything the Minister of State is saying. However, for the life of me, I cannot understand what a certificate holder, for instance, will bring to the forum that would in any way change the outcome compared with having only pilots, air traffic controllers and mechanics involved. There is such a wide list. I would love to have that list, go through it line by line and...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State read out the qualifications of people that are available within the IAA. This legislation is about regulating the IAA. I would hope its people have the qualifications she is talking about but that is not the issue.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State talked about the expertise that was available. She spoke specifically about the expertise brought in on the matter of search and rescue. I assume we are talking about the same company we have always spoken about, which is the company from Scotland, Aerossurance. I have repeatedly asked what expertise this company has. The Minister of State and the Minister have...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Not commenting on a live tender is allowing the Minister of State to pull down the curtain of secrecy over expenditure by this State. The taxpayers of the State will pay for this. We paid through the bloody nose for the last one, we did not get the regulation we should have got and four people have lost their lives. What is the expertise of the individual in question? As far as I am...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 4A: 77 a. In page 55, to delete lines 37 to 41 and substitute the following: “(2) On an annual basis, and whenever so requested, the Chief Executive or a relevant officer shall account for the performance of the company’s functions to a Committee or both Houses of the Oireachtas and the company shall have regard to any recommendations of such Committee...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: We have debated this Bill for quite a considerable period of time and I am anxious that it would pass Committee Stage and give us time go back to a critical issue and that is the issue of peer support. I understand how far the Minister has come and all I ask is that we finish the Committee Stage and between now and the Report Stage, that we have an opportunity to engage on the issue of peer...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Before we come to Report Stage.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I accept the Mininster's bone fides.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It is strange that every time I come into the Seanad for the Order of Business, something derails my line of thought. Senator Doherty has certainly derailed mine today. I have a sister who lost two children at full term. I cannot begin to tell the House the pain that she has felt in her life at the loss of those children. I fully support what Senator Doherty is trying to do. I offer my...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I am aware that my colleagues want to talk about my trip to Qatar. I am quite prepared to give a detailed report next week on that. It is a cheap shot but leaving that aside-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The bottom line is this. What an embarrassment that this State, in which we constantly talk about our sovereignty and neutrality and hear all the other nonsense about the defence of the State, is unable to protect the very lifeblood of data that come through this country or the economic zone for which we are responsible? People speak about the "cloud" as if it was up there. It is not. It...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I am well aware that he was here last week. There are times when other Ministers are here and Senator Buttimer is not. I was away on business and the Senator can like it or lump it. The Minister needs to come to the House to explain. The story only broke in the last few days.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: No chance.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: May we heckle?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On 31 August, I wrote to the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, following a request from a member of the public about tender documents that had been released by the Department of Transport for the procurement of consultancy services for search and rescue services. My letter questioned why there were two very similar tenders in the marketplace....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It was intimidating for me.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It was intimidating for me. When a Member of this House is told that an email that was sent to Ministers is being referred to the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Office of the Attorney General, that is intimidating. I would like the Minister for Transport to come to the House to reassure all Members that he does not support or subscribe to any form of intimidation. I ask the...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Credit where credit is due, the Minister, Deputy Harris, as the Minister in charge of further and higher education, has done more for those sectors than any Minister I can recall in my time.

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

Gerard Craughwell: Let us not get too touchy about it now.