Results 701-720 of 5,754 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Night after night on our television screens we see the plight of wretched people running from their respective war-torn countries, but I am absolutely shocked at the level of racist comment that I am beginning to hear around the country. Indeed, yesterday a man stood outside the gates of Leinster House with a sign saying "No more refugees." Many of us will have visited New York at some...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: We populated countries as far away as Australia, Canada and the United States of America. One will find Irish people and Irish pubs all over the world. These people are not coming to this country because they want to come. They are coming because they have nowhere else to go. It poses huge problems for us but I am happy to congratulate the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for offering its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: My point may be more appropriate for the general discussion. I am somewhat disappointed there is nothing with respect to guidance and counselling services in the schools. From having spoken to people in third level and further education, I note we are now beginning to see the cost of the failure to provide guidance as students move through second level. There is poor choice of third level...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not, unfortunately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not believe that is fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: That is not fair because, if one examines the attrition rates at third level, one realises they are too high.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: If the Senator wants me to go through them now, I will go out and get the statistics for her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: We all know there is a problem here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: If one checks with the professionals in the area-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: On public private partnerships, I have seen some schools that were developed through that system and they are a credit to the planners. More importantly, however, they take a huge weight from the shoulders of management in those schools, in so far as the latter has no responsibility for the infrastructure of the building, other than to request through the management body that repairs be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I join with colleagues who have spoken about the forthcoming election to the Seanad. I agree with what Senators Norris and Mullen had to say. We debase ourselves in this House in the way we allow elections to take place. It is a foregone conclusion before it has even started. Indeed, it has been in the public domain, put there by members of----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: As one of my colleagues on the other side of the House said, somebody kicked an own goal and that is the only reason I am here. The bottom line is that I do not believe Fine Gael will put up a candidate. I compliment Fianna Fáil and hope Sinn Féin will consider it. Indeed, if there is a person who is independent and is looking for a signature, my signature is here waiting. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: The Senator is rowing back-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: -----another three weeks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Like everybody else here, I add my condolences to the people in Carrickmines, to Garda Golden's family and to the family of the homeless man who died in Dublin over the weekend. The people in Carrickmines live just down the road from me. It was a halting site that was well in off the road. They were people who minded their own business, who went about their daily lives. To see two...
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: This is grossly unfair.
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I come in here time after time-----
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: In fairness-----
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: -----you have allowed speakers to go over time.
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: People like me, who sit here for hours-----