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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: An interview board might be look at that-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: It did already.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: That is the one which Fine Gael applies.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Noone has thrown a new can of worms into the equation.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: As my colleague said, where a judge is interviewed for the first time before he or she is appointed to a superior court - he or she may make it to Chief Justice - his or her organisational skills will be so important. How are those organisational skills to be tested at the point of entry if judges are not to be interviewed as they move along? We are back to the questions an individual...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Pro-equality in interviews.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Give us a liberal.
- Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, lines 19 and 20, to delete all words from and including "Betting" in line 19 down to and including line 20 and substitute the following:"Betting Act 1931; 'remote gaming' means gaming in which persons participate by the use of remote communication; 'remote gaming machine' means any instrument of gaming which is facilitated by remote communication; 'remote...
- Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Boyhan has seconded it.
- Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I am sure one of my colleagues will oblige me.
- Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: The purpose of this amendment is to include those organisations which carry on gambling and betting online, by telephone, through television sets, via radio and by way of other types of electronic betting. I have received legal advice that the Bill as drafted would make promotion of all gambling without a gaming permit illegal. As the definition of gaming in the Bill is not limited in its...
- Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate the Minister of State's bona fides on this. I am trying to achieve a level playing pitch for terrestrial and the extra-terrestrial organisations. When we discuss the various gaming houses in town there will be a migration from organisations where human beings are watching what is happening and able to intervene where they see compulsive gambling and gaming. Consider the...
- Seanad: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (11 Jun 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides. I will withdraw the amendment on the understanding that the Minister of State will bring something back in the near future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I address Commandant Keogh, Commandant King and Lieutenant Colonel Priestley by their rank because together they represent more than 60 years experience as leaders in the Defence Forces. They come before us with no mean credentials. It is an unique step they have taken to come here and I am delighted they are present. I made a complaint some time ago when the Department of Defence sought...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: There was a question about the legal responsibility of leaders in the field where there are young officers taking on several roles, for example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I wish to make two brief points, one concerning the Chief of Staff. We must acknowledge that at the PDFORRA conference he did something that I believe no previous Chief of Staff has done. He stepped outside and placed his cards firmly on the table, and short of doing what Commandant Berry has done in placing his hat on the Taoiseach's table and saying, "I am out of here if you do not do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: May I ask one question? I believe there were 365 NCO vacancies last year or the year before. I cannot remember the exact number but it was more than 300. How did that arise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Retention of Defence Forces Personnel: Discussion with Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (30 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: I propose an amendment to the Order to Business, that No. 4, Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 - Committee Stage, be adjourned at 5 p.m. and that No. 83, motion 9, which is Private Members' business, be taken at that stage. This is just to give certainty and clarity to those who wish to speak on it.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)
Gerard Craughwell: No. 83, motion 9, which is Private Members' business.