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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Maybe they would, but not if you do it often enough in the right way. It costs nothing to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I have two mobile phones in my family with the same provider. One is a business phone, which is mine, and the other is a non-business number. If I ring support on the business line, I will have an answer within three or four minutes. On the other, if I ring on a Tuesday, I might get an answer on the following Friday. The company simply does not answer. It does everything to encourage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I have two final points, one of which is on the independent adjudication group. When ComReg has put in place the final terms of reference and so on, will it share those with the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: There will be empirical evidence, as best as can be provided, that the members are independent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I can understand the commercial reason for the withdrawal of telephone boxes by the dominant player. I have just come back from the UK where I drove through Wiltshire and Somerset. There were telephone boxes all over the place. God help anyone who has a gammy battery in a mobile phone or who just never switched over to mobile phones and does not have a phone at home. I do not suppose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes, in very urban areas. There is one in Terenure for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I wonder if there is one in Ballydehob or Louisburgh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Sadly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Chair for facilitating my attendance. I welcome the guests and thank them for their comprehensive opening statements. I asked the Tánaiste to address this first issue yesterday. The Government has given an undertaking that the Department of Foreign Affairs will set out a briefing document for Members of the Oireachtas on what Irish neutrality is. We have never had it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: While Dr. McDonagh is thinking there can I come in with two supplementaries? One is the lack of an intelligence committee in the Oireachtas. He seems to feel that that is a serious deficiency in our oversight. The second question is: as academics, have the witnesses ever been brought into a central forum by any government and asked to lay out what their priorities and research might be to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I have a short input to make. I get worried when I hear people mixing overseas development aid and neutrality. I am looking here at 2013 to 2022. Some €2,236.55 billion was pumped into ten states as overseas development aid. When I look at the states in question and the military armament they have, they have viable air forces and viable navies and massive tanks, personnel carriers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I am not going to argue with the Chair on that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: The marine services serving Ireland are a vitally important part of our import and export trade.Our major harbours are served by pilots. Our pilots have no set of qualifications that they must adhere to. They have been looking for qualifications and training commensurate with what is available at other European ports but there is nobody interested in driving forward the professionalism of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: What?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Very good. We might have a debate on hygiene, particularly for those working in hospitals. The Cathaoirleach has to shout when speaking to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Tánaiste for a very comprehensive report. I found it very down to earth. It covered many areas that it is time we covered in the open. I ask the Tánaiste to ask his Department to draft a briefing document for Members of the Oireachtas which explains exactly what neutrality is. Quite frankly, I am tired of being overseas and hearing people talk about Paddy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: They border on defence but I think they fit more into the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: That is fine. I will accept that. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Does the Tánaiste mind if I just finish up on Mozambique-----