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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I want clarity so that people who wish to engage in that debate will have certainty about the starting time. Last night, the Taoiseach uttered the famous words that many a football manager has been awarded, namely, "I have full confidence". He has full confidence in the Minister of State at the Department of Defence, yet the Defence Forces are falling apart. The Taoiseach threw out a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It was leaked last week. I d6id not leak it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: He is not a Minister.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Who holds the portfolio?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That is very kind of the Leader.

Seanad: Farm Safety Agency Bill 2018: Second Stage (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Ms Möller for appearing before the committee today and providing us with a good overview of the work of her organisation. It is quite interesting and is the type of thing I could find myself playing with in the evenings as I try to figure out the relationships that exist across the European Union. I am looking at the screen before me and specifically at Poland and the tiny blue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We tend to migrate towards the bigger powers and look to them to build the coalition and we want to be a member rather than a leader. Has Ms Möller's study shown any capacity for small countries to exercise soft power and bring together a coalition, and hence bring the large blocks to join rather than going cap in hand to larger blocks, as it were?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State to the committee. Her contributions are always very informative. We were concerned that the European Parliament elections would have a scattergun outcome with moves to the far right and left but they seem to have converged towards the centre. I do not see a great threat to the European ideal emerging from the incoming Parliament. My colleagues mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I would be interested in whatever plans the Government has in place in that regard. The Minister of State, the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach have done a great deal in getting Ireland ready for Brexit. I should not leave out our officials both nationally and internationally who have been incredible in the work they have done. I am blown away by what I see as I travel throughout Europe....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: That rules me out so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes, exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: We can tunnel under the UK.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Lucky woman.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleagues in congratulating those who put themselves forward for election. I first spoke in this House about the issue of remuneration for county councillors in 2014. Nothing has happened since.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: Nothing has happened since. If the Leader is talking about promises, and I do not know why he always feels he has to attack when I stand up and tell the truth-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader talks about promises-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: If the Leader is talking about promises, his party has made more promises than I care to think of to councillors around the country that they will be sorted out.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It was definitely happening at Hallowe'en and then it was going to happen sometime else.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: It has been well and truly discussed at this stage. This morning, we turned on our radios and listened to Commandant Cathal Berry, one of Ireland's finest soldiers, a man who joined the cadets, became a ranger, took leave of absence over five years, became a medical doctor and eventually took over as the officer commanding at the Curragh medical college. That man left the Defence Forces...