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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: I ask that the Leader raise that with Government to ensure we get the people who are answerable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is very welcome to the committee. I congratulate him, Prime Minister Sunak, and the European Union on the wonderful achievement yesterday. The measured responses that we have had since are vitally important at a time like this so that we stall the horses, as it were, and let us not annoy anybody at this stage. We must give everybody time and space to absorb the wonderful...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister has put the neutrality issue in perspective here today. These are days of worrying about land wars, tanks and guns, and whatever else. We are living in a whole new world. Some 75% of our small and medium enterprises, SMEs, have been hit by cyberattacks and that is right across the European Union. There is a whole new world out there and neutrality is too simple a word to...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The Acting Chair is very observant. He can figure out where people are from by just looking at them.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Some time ago I reported that one of our CHC helicopters was forced to land on Valentia Island. Some weeks ago, one of our helicopters was forced to make an emergency landing in Derry, and I understand that, last night, Rescue 115 was forced to land off the coast of Clifden. I have brought up the issue of this organisation several times in this House, and I am very concerned it may be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I want to go back to accidents that took place before this legislation. We clearly have a problem with the marine accident investigation board that was in place at the time. Regarding this legislation, and we have a problem in that we are on a very tight timeline for pre-legislative scrutiny on it, which I do not particularly agree with. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: If the Bill is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: If I may, the Clinch report-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: -----has been mentioned by more than one person. We are being asked to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny but we are not being provided with the tools to allow us to analyse past mistakes or issues. One or maybe both hands are being tied behind our backs, and both ankles are being nobbled as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Well, somebody is. The bottom line is it is up to this committee to decide whether it is prepared to allow that to happen. I would be interested in Mr. Kingston's views on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Should it not, like the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, or the Ombudsman, be located completely away from any Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The Deputy mentioned the fox looking after the henhouse. We spent two and a half years on the Air Navigation and Transport Bill before we finally got the Minister to agree that the people who wrote the legislation were the people we were trying to regulate. If we are going through pre-legislative scrutiny, I do not want the marine accident investigation Bill to come to the Seanad and be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The public are watching now and I hope they know-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: What I am saying is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Captain Clinch must come before the committee even if we have to fly him in from wherever he is. If we have to fund that, so be it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: In deference to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, and I do not mean to call his position into question-----