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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I know that the Leader missed me on the day of his nuptials. I did try to get to his wedding. I wish him and his husband the very best going forward and congratulate them both.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I want to discuss the serious issue of social media. My colleague and the Leader's colleague, Senator Noone, was charged with the responsibility of chairing the all-party Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. She did it as a professional and worked hard. It is probably a bit unfair of me to mention her while she is sitting here in the Chamber. She was subjected to the...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I ask the Senator to finish now.

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I understand that but in fairness to everybody else-----

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I really have to ask the Senator to finish up now. I am sorry.

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: She can have the Senator's time. That is fair enough.

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Order please. Senator Buttimer has ten minutes.

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I thought long and hard before coming here to speak tonight. I speak as the brother of eight sisters, the son of a mother, the husband of a wife and the father of a daughter. I see it has gone viral already that while my colleague, Senator Kelleher, was speaking, I tried to shut her up. I do not know anyone in the world who is not pro-life. Every single one of us cherishes life and...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The same applies to people on the pro-choice side. Do not send me messages. I am an old fella of 64 years, and I can make up my own mind. If I need advice, I will talk to the women I love and they will help me. It breaks my heart when I think of some of the girls I knew growing up who had children. Once they had a child, they were called a whore because they were not married. Let get...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: We will make our own choice in our own way. It is painful to make the choice. It is not easy on anybody on any side, but let us make it in our own way. Let us talk to the people we trust and love. To the men who support either side, I have great news - they will never be pregnant and they will never have to make the decision. When I was growing up, I knew one man who, as far as I knew,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the ambassador and apologise that I was a little late getting here. The eyes of Europe are on Bulgaria right now as it takes over the Presidency. I wish it well. I am sure Bulgaria will rise to the occasion and it will all go fine. On the issue of Brexit, as the ambassador is aware, we got through phase one as a solid cohesive unit in Europe. As we move through the other stages...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I refer to the passing of Lieutenant General Gerry McMahon, who was the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces in 1995 and who gave 45 years of distinguished service to his country. Lieutenant General Gerry McMahon will be missed by many veterans. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. I have spoken many times on homelessness and housing. I congratulate the Minister for Housing, Planning and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Homeless will not go away but we have to acknowledge the incremental steps the Minister has taken. I compliment him on what he has done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: When we look down the list it brings back the horror of what it was all about. My colleague referred to thugs and murderers. Nowadays we would probably say "radicalised young men who did some horrendous things." I cannot begin to imagine what it meant to the families for whom the long wait was resolved when the bodies of victims were recovered to at least have the remains of a body and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I agree. His parents were entitled to his body. They were entitled to see his grave. He is entitled to a headstone. I cannot begin to express the level of distress that reading this list causes me. It brings me back to where this country was, when the orders of some individual unknown to me, the witnesses or anyone else could sentence another person to death and have him or her taken...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Thank God for the monsignor.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleague, Senator Michael McDowell, in his comments with regard to Israel. During my time as president of the TUI, the organisation voted to have an academic boycott of Israel. It brought all hell down on us from both official and unofficial Israel. It does not like being told what to do. How dare it tell us what we can or cannot do.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: About two weeks ago, I had a bit of a scare sitting in my car outside a retail store in south County Dublin. Such was the scare that I felt the need to call an ambulance. The ambulance came, collected me and brought me to the local accident and emergency unit within 25 minutes. Within two hours, I was seen by a cardiac specialist. Within eight hours I was seen by a consultant...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Israeli ambassador might come in and we will have a word with him.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It is on a junction.