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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Quite apart from contact with IALPA and individual pilots making contact with me, what has driven the debate over the past two and a half years is the Rescue 116 incident. Perhaps if legislation had been in place alongside greater oversight, more engagement and a management willing to listen to its employees, things might have been highlighted sooner. In the report on Rescue 116, we find...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I would like to acknowledge the officials who sit here for hours and hours on end, providing briefs to Ministers, listening to what has been said and bringing that back to their Department. That is how amendments get made and brought here. I would like to acknowledge their presence here and thank them for the work they do. It would be remiss of me not to thank the Irish Air Line Pilots'...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Referendums and Lessons from Other Jurisdictions (27 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome our guests and thank them for their time. First and foremost, I believe three things need to happen as we move through this process. First, on a point to Raymond McCord, we need a truth commission that will involve the security forces and the former terrorists on both sides. We need open and honest discussion and debate, and we need to know what happened in the area of collusion....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I suggest that the children get no homework.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have spoken about the Defence Forces here on many occasions. It is becoming an international embarrassment now. Yesterday, the foreign affairs site foreignpolicy.compublished a statement to the effect that "Ireland is Europe's weakest link". The site outlined the current state of defence in this country and how defence has not featured. My colleague, Deputy Berry, and I frequently say...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Chime, the National Charity for Deafness and Hearing Loss, is carrying out a survey on hearing loss and I ask people to participate in it. It affects us all. I am glad I could not hear the Leas-Chathaoirleach ringing the bell there.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: At this stage I will step down.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I should thank the Clerk of the Seanad for the work he has done to ensure I get to hear things around here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Members of the Ukrainian Parliament (8 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I acknowledge the presence of the ambassador. For people following the meeting in Ukraine, you have an ambassador and staff in Dublin who work extremely hard for displaced citizens who arrive in this country, many of whom I have met. The Chairman adverted to the issue of generators. The Russians have clearly targeted electricity, gas and water infrastructure in particular. In high-rise...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I would never question the Leas-Chathaoirleach's impartiality. He is indeed a man of honour. I frequently speak in the Chamber about our Defence Forces. Yesterday, I had the honour of visiting the Air Corps in Baldonnel. I met a wonderful group of people who are loyal servants of the State but I also saw how pathetically they are supported. We have eight traineeship aircraft in Baldonnel...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

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

Gerard Craughwell: I and all Members of the Independent Group join in offering sympathies to Ms Doody. I have lost siblings and it is very difficult to live with. My heart goes out to her and I ask that this be conveyed to her. On 29 May 1962, the LÉ Clíona, while participating in an annual exercise south of Roche's Point in County Cork and firing patterns of depth charges, suffered a premature...

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

Gerard Craughwell: It is not good enough.

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

Gerard Craughwell: From the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, I expect.

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

Gerard Craughwell: It is okay. He can kick it over to the Minister.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I second Senator Boyhan's amendment to the Order of Business seeking the moving of No. 128(5) regarding the naming of the children's hospital. Last night we were treated to a view of two gardaí being beaten in Dublin. Sadly, it is not just Dublin; it is happening everywhere. Members of An Garda Síochána put on their uniforms and go out to work in the evenings expecting to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: There is nobody joining up either.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I rise today to propose a motion that Seanad Éireann recognises the Holodomor - inflicting death by starvation - of 1932 to 1933 as a genocide on the Ukrainian people and that its 90th anniversary, which will fall on 26 November 2022, we show our solidarity with Ukraine in commemorating this man-made famine, which was inflicted on the Ukrainian people by the deliberate policies of a...