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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: State of the Union 2016: European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development (20 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I constantly hear the statement that Ireland is the only country with a land border with the UK. It is not. Spain has a land border with Gibraltar. That must be taken on board. We might regard it as a tiny part of the UK, but it is nonetheless a part of it. Anybody who has ever travelled to Gibraltar and sat for an hour and a half or two hours in traffic will be aware of that. It is as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK EU Referendum Result: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I apologise for being a little late. Brexit is the great unknown. The only plan is there is no plan. At least that is what I was told at a meeting in Brussels last week. I have just come from a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Affairs and we seem to be focusing on the relationship between the UK and Ireland. We seem to be forgetting there are 26 other jurisdictions that have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK EU Referendum Result: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Sheridan and Dr. Soares for their comprehensive replies. As I mentioned earlier, I have just come from a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs. The committee has been focusing on the long historical relationship between Britain and Ireland. I put forward the view that instead of deputations going from both the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Oireachtas to...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I rise this morning with good news about teachers. I was in Portlaoise last weekend with the TechnoTeachers Association, a voluntary group of woodwork and mechanical drawing teachers. It was wonderful to see the project work produced by 15 year old children under their tutelage and to see those teachers meeting on their own time in order to progress their subjects. We must take our hats...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: They were the first members of the Irish Defence Forces to serve overseas and they deserve our respect. On the issue of industrial relations, and with respect to my colleague, the Lansdowne Road agreement is the only agreement in town. Right now, it is running off the rails and we must do something about that. Yesterday, Mr. Eoin Ronayne of the Civil Public and Services Union was on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: It is a disaster.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: One cannot do that if one's head is in the sand.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: A photocopy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Position of Member States on Withdrawal of the UK from the EU: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the ambassadors and thank them for attending. I wish to start with a point that was made by the ambassador from the Netherlands. During his presentation he said “ if the UK leaves the European Union”, which is something that is quite common among all of us who are watching what is happening in terms of Brexit. There is a vague hope that in some way this is an...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: We find ourselves this morning in the middle of what I would call a perfect storm. We have Brexit, industrial relations problems that are bringing this country to its knees and, this morning, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. Some weeks ago, I warned that we need to be careful in what we said about Mr. Trump because I predicted he might become President. I also...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask that we do something straight away on that issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Safety (10 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for coming to the House this morning. The issue I wish to discuss covers two parts of the Minister's portfolio, sport and transport. The Minister is not the type of man who would wish to have any form of nanny state to over-regulate the sporting side of our lives. Both of us would agree that all sports should be allowed to take place,...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Safety (10 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for the comprehensive answer. Perhaps his Department will consider notifying the retailers of these bikes that they are required to advise a customer who is purchasing one of them for someone under the age of 16 that he or she is breaking the law. I will conclude by asking the Minister a question. I do not expect him to answer it today. Will he ask his officials to...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I second the request by my colleague, Senator Freeman, for the Minister for Health to be brought here at his earliest convenience to discuss the cuts to the budgeted figure for mental health. Mental health problems are a plague in this country, and we must do something about them. I had other things to say but I am afraid I cannot let the statements made by Senator Ó Ríordáin...