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- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not afraid to do so. When I was on the education committee, I initiated a report into class K PRSI and I initiated a High Court action against the State on county councillors' class K PRSI. The State capitulated and gave county councillors class S, while giving those who had joined me in the legal action a tidy sum for their trouble, without them having to go to court. However, the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I am sick to my back teeth of my PRSI record, which is broken because I moved from class A to class K. A man of advancing years like myself does not get an opportunity to maintain his PRSI record and were I to try to do that, it would cost me €5,000 per year, having taken €8,000 of a pay cut to sit in this seat. I am not afraid to talk about it because I am one of the few...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Noone has given an honest view on the crazy times they put these programmes on television.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One would not want to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I have no doubt the negativity will come anyway and I do not particularly care about it.
- Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One of the things that disappointed and upset me following the previous debate we had was an email I received suggesting that I am anti-Semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. I do not see this Bill as being about Israel and Palestine but about people profiting from what they steal. Quite frankly, we simply cannot allow one country to infringe the border of another, as has...
- Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: God bless Ryanair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I call for a debate in the House on the gross abuse of public money to defend indefensible cases. PDFORRA, the Defence Forces' representative body, has taken seven cases to date on the Working Time Directive and won each of them. The latest case cost the State €200,000 in legal fees and there was a five figure settlement for the claimant. This is nonsense. If the State is fully...
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is a point for debate and not a point of order.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is not a point of order in this case.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The statements are under Standing Orders so it is not a point of order. Can we proceed because we are really tight on time.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Does the Senator see where we are coming from? It is up to the Ministers to comply with legislation.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: These statements are being made under Standing Orders and not made under the Act.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: These are being made under Standing Orders.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is a matter for the Leader and the Senator might bring it up on the Order of Business tomorrow morning. We are really tight on time and we must proceed with the debate. While eight minutes have been allocated to speakers, I ask them not to use the eight minutes or otherwise people will not get in. I call Senator Leyden who has eight minutes, but I ask him not to use them.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Is that agreed? Agreed. I invite Senator Victory Boyhan, who is sharing time with Senator McDowell, to contribute to the debate.