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Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. a1q:In page 5, line 10, after “property” to insert the following:“having due regard to the architectural heritage of the structures near which the berths, buoys, or moorings are proposed to be placed”.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I rise to speak on amendment a1z. This requires that by-laws be communicated in writing to each local authority. There is no way that we can allow organisations to operate on the hope that the message will get through at some stage or other. We have to put it into the legislation to ensure that local authorities are aware of them and are communicated with at every stage. Given that the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: My phone? I must have one phone on for my hearing aids, sorry. It controls them. I switch them in and out so that I can hear the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: At any rate, the consultation period must be long enough to allow for people to get submissions ready and get them in together.I will leave it at that. I am sorry about the phone.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It is amendment No. a1z.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We will not tell anybody.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Richmond is new.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: As Fine Gael.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Senators Fintan Warfield and Lynn Ruane for bringing the Bill before the House. I am delighted that there are some young people in the Visitors Gallery. Today they have received their first lesson in politics: "They should have the vote but the Whip states they cannot and the Whip is superior to everyone else. Sorry about my personal feelings, but I will put them aside because the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: God help us if that were to happen.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The time has come for political parties to put up or shut up. Fine Gael has sought to deal with the issue by proposing that the Bill be read a Second Time on 31 December 2017. We will all be on holidays at that time. You do not mean-----

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am sorry. I informed Senators Fintan Warfield and Lynn Ruane today that I was under severe pressure and felt somewhat intimidated to support the Bill because of the massive number of e-mails I had received from young people. Folks, rock on. Please drive us insane to get the vote for 16 year olds. I admire them 100% and I am 100% behind them.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: But not just yet.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: There is confidence.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Like my colleague, Senator Ardagh, I believe the transport situation has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. There has to be ministerial involvement at this stage. At the very least, the Minister could talk to the company and tell them to get back into the WRC and to remain there until such a time as they find a solution. To sit on the bench and refuse to play part in this is not the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Beyond Mullingar.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The management also needs to take the medicine that it has dished out to workers.