Results 641-660 of 5,754 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Where is the Senator coming from?
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: She should tell us straight. She pulled it out of the sky.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: People will receive €100 for doing nothing.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: What should they do with it?
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: How much did it cost?
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: It would cost more than €100.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: We must be careful because the man" is in the building.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: They were lucky enough to have homes back then.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: People will not pay any more.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: When?
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Known constituents.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I wish to raise a point of order.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: The section we are dealing with deals with registering with Irish Water. I do not understand why there has been constant reference to the EPA.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: We seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time on something that is not meant to be before us.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I wish to clarify a matter. Earlier I called for the Minister to come to the House, but this was in no way a slight or insult to the Minister of State. The Minister has been out and about on the airwaves speaking about how confident he is and I would rather see him standing up his confidence here than putting the Minister of State in the firing line. I have every respect for her and the...
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: There is a lot of repetition here. We have spent more than €500 million on meters which are not required.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: We have spent more than €600 million on advertising, trying to sell a system which nobody wants. We are told Irish Water cannot be privatised without a plebiscite. The only plebiscite which means anything is a referendum which places ownership of Irish Water in the Constitution. Let us not play these silly games. No Minister, and not even the Taoiseach himself, can come in here and...
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I too add my condolences to the family of Alexis Fitzgerald. There is much congratulatory talk this morning on the crew of the LE Eithne. It is rather surprising that the crew has had to put in a claim to be compensated for overseas service and that it has not been met on the same terms as would be afforded were the crew on UN service.I do not know how far that claim has progressed but for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: With respect to what we saw on the "Prime Time" programme last night on procurement, will the Leader ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a role for the Garda? There are hundreds of people on trolleys in hospitals yet people are accepting holidays in Portugal and elsewhere. I am not saying anybody is guilty at this stage but if money is going astray, and we heard this...