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Seanad: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It is highly appropriate that we should hear what a normal sitting room conversation sounds like at 60 dB or at whatever number of decibels I measured it at.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Friends of Europe. There were only two representatives from Ireland at the Bratislava conference, myself and Senator Leyden. Last night there were two representatives, neither from the Government, at the conference in Belfast. Are we serious about Brexit or are we not? I am calling for the Taoiseach to give a state of the nation address as to precisely what the Irish priorities are going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On the charging points at hotels and the like, tourism is a major industry in this country. The Minister might look at grant-aiding to ensure that hotels in places like Clifden, Dingle, Dungarvan or west Cork have the wherewithal to put in charging points because it would be a huge advantage with regard to electric car rental for tourists and so on. I ask the Minister to look at that.

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Trade Union Agreements (4 Oct 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State for his forthright answer. Indeed it is at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that this query was aimed. I am rather shocked by the response that has been drafted for the Minister of State by the Department.One must ask whether people at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform understand anything about industrial relations. An agreement...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I had reason to write to the Cathaoirleach and the Ceann Comhairle last week with regard to the treatment of my colleague, Senator Keogan, at a recent committee meeting.There is a growing intolerance in this House, which did not exist when I first came in here, to what I would call the alternative voice - the person who is not speaking along the same lines as everybody else, who is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I want to come back to that. The representatives could have stopped at the first line where it finishes at the word “politics” and deleted the rest. There is absolutely no need for the rest to be there. It could be interpreted as a gagging order on the representative bodies so that they could not make a comment, irrespective of custom and practice to date. This legislation...

Seanad: Parole Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I cannot begin to imagine what his poor mother and father must feel. At the time of the Moors murders I was living in England and there was the way they played with the families. At least they were locked up and kept there until they expired. What Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell is trying to do is allow judges to state this guy or woman should not go before a parole board for X number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: Okay, I am paraphrasing, but the Tánaiste is comparing a young soldier earning €38,000 a year with somebody in the public service or some private sector job. When there is a massive snowstorm, however, and everybody is stuck at home, military personnel are not stuck at home. When there is a national disaster, military personnel are not stuck at home. When Covid hit, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the line, perhaps all the way to Ranelagh, it would be fantastic because it would serve many secondary schools on the way and get kids off the road. I know the Minister is favourably disposed at least to exploring the idea of very light rail for Galway. Galway city is frequently at a standstill from Oranmore almost to Barna at peak hours. The very light rail project that I discussed...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Amendments Nos. 19 and 20, which are being taken together, are trying to guarantee that there will be a student on the academic council. That is what we are trying to do. Legislation that is written today may not be questioned for the next 50 years; indeed, it might not be questioned for the next 100 years. On the day it is questioned, however, if it is not clear that there must be at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is welcome to the committee. I want to start with the Luas green line, with which I am very familiar. Between 7 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. at Glencairn, which is a short distance from Bride's Glen, the Luas trams are already packed. As the Minister knows, there is massive development right beside the British ambassador's residence, and there is about to be additional development at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: It seems a bit ridiculous to have a van there at 8.30 a.m., when traffic is bumper to bumper. I have no difficulty with checking traffic on the N11. Speed on that road is especially fast, but surely it is not at 8.30 a.m. I complained some years ago about cyclists crashing the red light, because I was on the road. I did so on social media and, immediately, a challenge was put out to me...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State but there are a number of issues here. First, having the Minister appoint a chief executive officer to the IAA when the Minister does not have aviation expertise within his or her Department is a matter of great concern. In fact, I am deeply concerned about anything that goes on in the Department of Transport at the moment while we are without aviation...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Act 1997 and, specifically, about the positions of advisers to Ministers. Advisers are the only people who are not accountable in any way to the public. I am asking the Leader to organise a debate in this House where we can explore how this might change and make the appointees more accountable, perhaps to Oireachtas committees. I am not saying Ministers should not have policy advisers -...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I have. I plead with the Minister at least to give Members the hope that he may revert on Report Stage and to not allow this matter to be pushed to a vote at this point, because I really seek to have this section removed.

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I think what we are trying to get at is, at the end of it, if I may-----

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: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (6 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to the House. He has the floor. I call on him to make his opening statement at his leisure.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Please, we are trying to have a debate here. We cannot have it if we shout at one another. All comments must be directed at the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I should point out that the busy funerals the Chairman is speaking of are those where everyone goes in to look at the corpse. Then, they come out to look at their neighbours and say, "God, he looked well, did he not?"