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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I am trying to be as-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I am trying to be measured here. We have a Bill on air navigation going through the House. We are not listening to the pilots. We must listen to the pilots lest we find ourselves down this road again.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is welcome to the House. At the outset, I want to say that our officials throughout the world, anywhere I have ever been, have been amazing people doing an amazing job. The Minister, and indeed his forerunners as Minister for Foreign Affairs, have had high profiles internationally and have served the country well. However, let us start with Iran. I cannot understand why,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: Well that is okay, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: Certainly, I would agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I am talking about the public perception. People think the Security Council is just a talking shop. I looked at resolutions going before the Security Council between 1946 and 2011. I think those were the dates. There were something like 11 pages of resolutions that had been vetoed by the big five. It makes people wonder what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: It is the second or third paragraph-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: This is the one on climate. I understand the way we get around the problem of having resolutions vetoed is that we do not publish the resolution until we are sure we have everybody on side. If that is the way the Security Council works, it is really only a talking shop. We have to be brave and we have to publish whatever resolutions we want. We should let them veto it if they want....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I want to put two things on the record. One is the Minister's responsiveness when I have called on him for assistance outside this forum. I recall contacting him during the Kabul evacuation and within moments he came back to me. I know he did everything he could for the individual involved. The other matter relates to the Security Council. My concern is more about the frustration the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader kindly arranged a meeting with the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, about the air navigation and transport Bill. That meeting took place the other day. I was somewhat disturbed that we were presented with the fait accompliby the regulator by way of a PowerPoint presentation.I asked at the end of the meeting that the PowerPoint presentation be made available immediately...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: We just had Senator O'Loughlin speaking about bullying. A lot of the bullies moved from the schoolyard into corporate Ireland and beyond. I want a debate on bullying but I certainly want Mr. Cosgrave-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I just think it is wrong.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: He was quick enough to speak in the absence of the Tánaiste, so he was. I will leave it at that. I will not argue any more with you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: The citizens of this country have worked hard to follow Government guidelines with respect to Covid-19. We now have a situation where the numbers are rising again at a worrying level. I will outline an issue that has been brought to my attention recently. A few fully vaccinated people around the area in which I live have came down with Covid-19 and this is causing massive worry among...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I regret to speak against my colleague on this but we live in an evolving world now and things change. For example, nobody would have believed or envisaged a couple of years ago that the European Union would put its own forces into a specific conflict zone. Therefore, I am reluctant to tie anything down at this stage and urge that we retain flexibility. If we commit troops overseas to...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: On Committee Stage, that when we deploy troops overseas under command of a local commander, we cede a certain amount of responsibility to that person on the ground in order that they can move troops to different places. If there is any danger that we are crossing the line or being asked to cross the line, there is a senior Irish Army officer or a senior Defence Forces officer in the field...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I will be brief. The Minister of State has addressed the capacity of the Oireachtas to query all the activities of the Defence Forces through the Oireachtas committees and parliamentary questions. That is there already so I do not see a need to duplicate reporting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I apologise for being late; I was engaged in something else. What I want to deal with is almost a parish pump issue. It comes from Galway, but I do not live there anymore so I cannot be accused of parish pump politics. It turns out the BusConnects service for the villages of Corrandulla and Annaghdown, as laid out in the NDP, seem to be at least 1 km away from Corrandulla and 10 km away...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: This is a serious issue in respect of the Annaghdown and Corrandulla areas, especially if we are trying to get people from what I call minor population areas just outside Galway city into the city itself. Getting buses into those two villages is important if we want to achieve that objective. In his letter, Councillor James Charity refers to the proposed 22A and 21A bus routes serving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes, but I am not going to put Ms Graham on the spot about this today, because that would be grossly unfair. A problem that might exist elsewhere in the system is identified. I refer to a proposed route that is supposed to hit a particular village but that is some-----