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Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator, please.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Please, the Senator has had her chance.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: One moment, please.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator has made her point.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I also ask the Minister of State to, please, address his remarks through the Chair.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Will the Minister of State, please, address his remarks through the Chair?

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am sorry, but the debate is over.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: As I said, the debate is over.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The debate is over.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator may take up the issue with the Minister of State outside the Chamber.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State has an opportunity to reply, if he so wishes.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Occupational First Aid (7 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, to the House. This is the first time I have had the pleasure of welcoming her to this House. I hope she is settling into her new portfolio. The issue that I am raising is quite literally a matter of life and death. I was recently made aware by Councillor Melissa O’Neill from Kilkenny of the first aid and cardiopulmonary...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Occupational First Aid (7 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am just about to finish. There are loads of options. Training courses could also be offered as part of in-service training and other forms of continuous professional development or better still why not have first aid and CPR included in the curriculum in the higher diploma or professional master of education in primary education, PME, in the teacher training colleges? This is the most...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Occupational First Aid (7 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am just finished. Children with even complex medical conditions can attend school with their peers but our duty of care must be commensurate with their needs. I thank the Minister of State for giving me the time today and I would ask that she and her officials give this serious consideration. I am sorry for going over time.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Occupational First Aid (7 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It comes as no surprise to me that in her former role as a school principal, the Minister of State had first aid facilities on site. That is a hallmark of the person she was and she ran an excellent school in her time. However, the arrangements across the country are ad hoc. I am referring here to basic first aid, not to the administration of medicine. I ask the Minister of State to...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I compliment the Taoiseach and thank him for being a man of his word. Yesterday we saw a joint exercise between the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána. That is to be welcomed. It is something I have been calling for for a long time. The exercise went very well and we owe compliments to the Chief of Staff and the members of the Defence Forces who showed themselves to be ready,...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (6 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Thank you Senator Higgins. The Minister now has the floor.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (6 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to the House. He has the floor. I call on him to make his opening statement at his leisure.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The news that came yesterday of the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, and the problems it caused is most distressing. I wish to place on record my congratulations to the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste for the way in which they have stood their ground and have represented this country and for their determination to get the best deal for the country, North and South. It is important to put...