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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Would politics get in the way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: On the issue of the common travel area, I am extremely grateful to both academics for addressing the common travel area. Like Irish neutrality, it is not quite as straightforward as we would like to think. This is something this committee needs to look at in far more detail because there is an assumption that there are rights that exist between Irish citizens and UK citizens but which are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I too want to point out that what went on yesterday in Gaza is beyond belief. This has been going on for so long with the Israelis that it is not funny. Children were shot yesterday. I have to ask the question: what were children doing there? I often have wondered whether I have the capacity to kill somebody and I think the only way I would ever kill anybody would be if he or she touched...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: "Do not blame the victims".
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is too cheap and too easy an answer-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: -----to the situation. It is too cheap and too easy. They are children. I ask anybody here who has children to stand up here today and tell me that he or she would walk them into a situation where that person knows there was a possibility that they would get shot. That in no way excuses the disgusting behaviour of the Israeli Defence Forces. Their viciousness, their cruelty and their...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not think there is a need. Senator Horkan has made the position quite clear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: We just heard about the system. It is protected under the guise of a thing called the Carltona doctrine which allows public servants hide behind the Ministers. This morning's interview with Emma Mhic Mathúna was heartbreaking. Here was a young woman who did everything right, gave up her job to be a stay at home mother, raised her children and breastfed them when they were babies. She...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It must find where the buck starts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That is too true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is more than disappointing for the people of the area.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Apple may think again about coming.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One was not even living in the area.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: With all due respect to the Leader, we have got to provide judges to hear these cases immediately. That is where the hold-up lies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: That could take two years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Maybe we should scrap the HSE all together and bring it all back into the Department of Health.
- Seanad: Europe Day 2018: Statements (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Europe Day 2018: Statements (10 May 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Neale Richmond has eight minutes.