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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleague, Senator Michael McDowell, in his comments with regard to Israel. During my time as president of the TUI, the organisation voted to have an academic boycott of Israel. It brought all hell down on us from both official and unofficial Israel. It does not like being told what to do. How dare it tell us what we can or cannot do.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: About two weeks ago, I had a bit of a scare sitting in my car outside a retail store in south County Dublin. Such was the scare that I felt the need to call an ambulance. The ambulance came, collected me and brought me to the local accident and emergency unit within 25 minutes. Within two hours, I was seen by a cardiac specialist. Within eight hours I was seen by a consultant...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Israeli ambassador might come in and we will have a word with him.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: It is on a junction.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: One bookseller has told people to go and buy books online.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I disagree. The Leader is right.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Transportation to those centres-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: As a public patient.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not mind depending on how good the services are.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State is welcome.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator is well over time.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Joe O'Reilly has eight minutes.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator has 30 seconds left.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Billy Lawless, who is Senator for the diaspora, has eight minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: When we look down the list it brings back the horror of what it was all about. My colleague referred to thugs and murderers. Nowadays we would probably say "radicalised young men who did some horrendous things." I cannot begin to imagine what it meant to the families for whom the long wait was resolved when the bodies of victims were recovered to at least have the remains of a body and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I agree. His parents were entitled to his body. They were entitled to see his grave. He is entitled to a headstone. I cannot begin to express the level of distress that reading this list causes me. It brings me back to where this country was, when the orders of some individual unknown to me, the witnesses or anyone else could sentence another person to death and have him or her taken...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I refer to the passing of Lieutenant General Gerry McMahon, who was the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces in 1995 and who gave 45 years of distinguished service to his country. Lieutenant General Gerry McMahon will be missed by many veterans. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. I have spoken many times on homelessness and housing. I congratulate the Minister for Housing, Planning and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Homeless will not go away but we have to acknowledge the incremental steps the Minister has taken. I compliment him on what he has done.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I know that the Leader missed me on the day of his nuptials. I did try to get to his wedding. I wish him and his husband the very best going forward and congratulate them both.