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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 2018 State of the Union Address and Related Matters: European Commission Representation in Ireland (28 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Mr. Kiely for making himself available to us again. The European project has been the greatest success in modern history but also, in some ways, the greatest failure. The success is in the way every aspect of Irish life has developed and changed in the 45 or so years in which we have been members. The benefit to this country has been phenomenal. The failure is that it has become a...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I congratulate Senator Black and her colleagues on bringing forward this Bill. As has been pointed out, it is not about two countries but rather an illegally occupied area. I do not necessarily condemn everything done by Israel as it is entitled to protect itself. It has rockets coming over the border from Hamas but the response is sometimes above and beyond anything that would be...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I join with others who have mentioned the damage to the sculpture in St. Stephen's Green this morning. When I joined the British Army and arrived in the depot of the Royal Irish Rangers, one of the things one had to learn was the battle honours of the regiment. The battle honours of the regiment included the battle honours of the Connaught Rangers. It included the Royal Dublin Fusiliers...

Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank my colleague, Senator Marshall, for facilitating me. I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach, the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, and the former Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs, Deputy Dara Murphy. A wonderful job has been done. In congratulating the political side of Irish life, I must also take time to...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Frequently, we get the Leader's infinite wisdom on topics. This morning, I would like him to discuss something and perhaps organise a debate on it. We are about to head into a winter of discontent in the public service. That is clear from what we have seen with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, teachers, the Army and gardaí. In fact, all of the public service is in...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: A Sinn Féin-Fianna Fáil coalition.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: There is assertiveness for you.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Perhaps publishing details in respect of all the lobbying would be good.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not dispute that at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: That is only when it is unrealistic.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not believe that the technological universities are encompassed in the 1997 Act. The Act was amended during the debate on the technological universities legislation. This legislation is in fact flawed.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It has been passed. The Dublin Institute of Technology and the institutes of technology at Blanchardstown and Tallaght are rapidly moving towards their new campus in Grangegorman. Technological universities and the institutes of technology have delivered some fine legal courses down through the years and have some fine legal academics working in them. We need to amend this legislation...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I will make one point before I deal with the Bill. There has been some suggestion that we are trying to filibuster this.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I would like to deal with it now if I could. There has been some suggestion that we are deliberately filibustering this Bill. Our job is to scrutinise the Bill and put it through its paces. I am a layman. That is all I am. I am not a legal expert but at this stage I cannot for the life of me see why we are still talking about this Bill and why it has not been withdrawn altogether. It is...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I am attempting to deal with the section.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: When we are talking about learned judges having to go through some sort of a test in order to find themselves short-listed, I cannot, for the life of me, understand or believe any judge would subject himself or herself to that sort of treatment. If this Bill goes through and if it were to be enacted in the morning, members of the Judiciary or Bar would be out of their minds to consider going...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Bill is flawed.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It is flawed. That is my view. I am only a layman. One should look at any of the media reports from over the weekend and read what they are saying. They are saying the Bill is flawed and they support-----