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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The one thing we need to do is engage now before we finish up with patients in hospitals with no nurses to look after them. We heard of 35 nurses this week who could not get a working visa. That is outrageous in the current environment. The Minister must bring in the unions and find out how we can move forward. The pay deal has not worked. It has been rejected by the majority of the key...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I am also a member of the commission, and I also welcome this Bill. It provides for important aspects of the running of the House. I particularly welcome the addition of the PBO, which will provide independent budgetary information to Members, and the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers. I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister of State for bringing it to the House. I will support it.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not intend to take much of the Minister of State's time. Like my colleagues, Senators Buttimer, Colm Burke and Lombard, I fully support everything he is trying to do in Cork. The negotiations in Cork were difficult and there are probably still difficulties there. Over time, I hope those difficulties will iron themselves out as they have in Limerick and Waterford. For the most part, I...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader is a little sensitive.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I would not do it to the Leader.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 10:In page 32, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "Waterford," in line 31 down to and including line 32 and substitute "Waterford;". I do not intend to delay the House tonight.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Over recent days, I have made my position and that of 54 of the 57 councillors in Galway very clear. Councillors in Galway are supportive of the Minister of State's intentions for the future of Galway and its councils, but they are not supportive of this Bill moving that forward. Our opposition is based on our belief that those who are local know what is best. I have listened to Senators...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 11:In page 33, lines 3 to 5, to delete all words from and including "Waterford;" in line 3 down to and including line 5 and substitute "Waterford.".

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Vótáil.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 12:In page 35, to delete lines 24 to 35.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Vótáil.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader should not be getting ratty.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: They have filibustered for the bloody night.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: My colleague, Senator Norris, just referred to the Roscommon incident. There is no escaping the fact that land and its ownership run through the heart of what it is to be Irish. However, I sometimes think that we get the emotional side of the argument without getting the full facts. Clearly, there is high emotion across Roscommon and the west over what has happened. Many Senators will...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: At the end of the day, those who work for the State are entitled to the protection of the State. In future, before we all get tied up in emotion, let us have the full story published, not just the bits that suit our particular cause. I feel desperately sorry for that family - I really do - but, by God, I feel equally as sorry for the security officers who were in hospital over the weekend....

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: With respect, we need some sort of legislation or ministerial order requiring evidence that engagement had taken place.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: What does that mean?