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- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Colleagues, please.
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Daly should resume his seat.
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Resume your seat. Senator Buttimer should refrain from asking questions as this is not a discussion forum.
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: There are other speakers and the Senator is coming to the end of his time.
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I apologise for interrupting but will the Senator allow some time for Senator Bacik as we will run out of time?
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that. I have to ask Senator Bacik to conclude at 7.26 p.m. She has about three and a half minutes.
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I will interrupt Senator Bacik to inform her that we are not concluding the debate, so she may continue until 7.30 p.m.
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Will the Leader confirm that proposal?
- Seanad: Disclosures Tribunal Report: Statements (23 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: In recent months, I have had time to sit down and think about what happened between 2008 and the current day. Between 2011 and 2014, I was actively involved in some of the cuts that were made to the salaries paid to public servants. Members of my union at the time, the Teachers' Union of Ireland, were thrown into income poverty and I remember that my own net salary fell by €1,000....
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: We have to ensure that we are all in it together and that we are all suffering in the same way. While we are at it then, we might start trawling around ministerial offices to see how many special advisers have had top-ups on their salaries, because public servants do not have that option open to them. By the way, neither does the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: He cannot go into the Taoiseach and tell him that he is a special guy and he deserves an extra €20,000 a year because he will not get it. Let us try to be a little honest with public servants.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It had nothing to do with the presidential election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I said from the top of Irish society. I also raised the salary.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: An tUachtarán McAleese, fair play to her.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That topped up the salaries of certain people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Slowly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It was a comment-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: With respect, the Leader is not dealing with the issue. Top-ups and the disregard for the special jobs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Fair play.