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Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Border Communities Against Brexit (25 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am sorry that I was not present for the witnesses' oral presentation. I was away on Oireachtas business at the time. I have been watching the witnesses' progress ever since they appeared before our committee. There is no doubt about the amount of work they have done and I commend them on it. They have done an exceptional amount of detailed work. I know Mr. Sheridan spends his time...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We had a group down here last week from Co-operation Ireland. They were unionist community workers in the main and they argued that they have been left behind and have not benefitted in any way from the peace process or from anything else. Is that because they or their communities have not been proactive enough or where does Ms McIntyre see the problem? I would be interested in her comments...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I congratulate Professor McCrudden and his group at Queen's University on the first Brexit debate I attended. It was excellently prepared and the contributors were truly wonderful. Certainly, it sent me back home thinking that we were somewhat behind the curve in comparison to where those guys were on that evening. We had a group in this morning whose members were talking about how Northern...

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. His speech included a great deal of information about investment in the Defence Forces, new aircraft, new ships and new everything. There was no information on serving members who do not have enough to live on. Can the Minister of State be proud of a Permanent Defence Force whose members are depending on welfare payments to make ends...

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Chair. I will leave the points I have made with the Minister of State. We need to restore the Defence Forces as an organisation to the level of esteem it once held in our society. Right now, it is a second-level group in the public service.

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: What if we have no personnel?

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Two.

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: That is what the Minister of State should be doing with the Defence Forces and the Minister.

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State picked my name out.

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: He chose to mention me in particular-----

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Minister, when I was-----

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: To do barrack duty?

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: That is absolute madness. How much is it costing?

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: That is appreciated.

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (24 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Will the Minister of State release the 75 emails?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: First and foremost, I am sure everybody in the House wants to offer his or her deepest sympathy following the events in Manchester. The truth is that there is terrorism all around us. In the modern world terrorists can move from country to country. They can operate in cells, lie in hiding and await being called and we saw what happened last night when, apparently, one slight gap in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Professor Harvey and Mr. Bassett are more than welcome and I thank them for coming. They have destroyed my ambitions to become Uachtarán na hÉireann because, if the diaspora were to be included, the €1 million I believed I would need to win a presidential election would become €1 billion. Professor Harvey has made the point that to do this we need to take the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: On the European law side, why would a person not take a case against Germany where he or she has decided to live and work for refusing the rights of a citizen, given his or her free movement rights, rather than harking back to Ireland from where he or she has left?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Professor Harvey hit on something, namely the Good Friday Agreement and what exactly it encompasses in legal terms. It strikes me as extremely surprising that somebody living on the island can hold an Irish passport but not have a vote. That is something that perhaps needs pretty rapid investigation. Without extending the vote to the wider diaspora, if a person on the island of Ireland...