Results 181-200 of 5,499 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I would like her reply to be fairly accurate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Why would I withdraw it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order, my call was for the Minister to come here to explain-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: -----what knowledge he had when he set the date. That was it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: The Acting Leader has told me the Government knew about the case.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: The Acting Leader just said the Government knew about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Acting Leader for confirming that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No, I have queried what happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: My question was about the date.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: It is indeed.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I wish the Minister of State "good morning" and welcome him to the House. I appreciate Deputy Ossian Smyth coming here to take time to listen to this extremely important matter with respect to public service pensions. I can say since 1995 that the messing and changes being made to public service pensions have rendered the public service the least attractive job in the country but, today, I...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I am coming to an end now. It is utterly astounding that this would happen. This has been under review for quite some time. We really need an answer straight away.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State for that comprehensive reply. Whether we like it or not, the bucking about that has taken place with State pensions has been an issue. I will be submitting another Commencement matter on the post-2013 pension, in respect of which I hear from public servants in all aspects of public life that they no longer want to work in the public service. The single pension...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I read this morning that we are now down to one ship to patrol our western shores. That is deeply worrying. I would like to have a debate in this House on what I call the Atlantic fleet. I believe the assets that exist off the west coast of Ireland and the west coasts of France, Spain and Portugal right the whole way down and whole way up north to Norway, Finland, etc, should be patrolled...
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: If the mayor is ultimately the man who carries the can, where does that leave the CEO?
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, but it raised more questions than it provided answers. We are heading into new territory. These are as yet untested waters. If the mayor is accountable to the chamber within the local authority but the accounting officer is the chief executive officer, there is the probability, I would think, of conflict between the two offices from time to time...
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not trying to throw a spanner in the works for the Minister of State, but it is really important that we empower a mayor to be accountable to his representatives in the chamber and, ultimately, to the people who elect him. I have always held the view that the chief executive officer or accounting officer is answerable only to the Minister of State's Department. They are not really...
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I have been on the ground with the Minister of State in Limerick. I know his commitment to the city. I also know he is anxious to get this through and see a directly elected mayor.I want to put that on record. The Minister of State is a true-blue Limerick man. I will give him that. The issue I am talking about has not arisen. I am not trying to be negative. It is our job in this House...
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I support Senator Boyhan's amendment. As he rightly pointed out, I spent quite a lot of my life in Limerick. I owe my second-chance education to Limerick. I often remember working with the Minister of State on various projects in Limerick city down through the years. Recently, I had the pleasure of going back there and visiting St. Nessan's Community College and seeing an unbelievable...
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No, not Thomond, South Hill.