Results 4,141-4,160 of 5,872 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: The Senator is out of time.
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: There are two more speakers.
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: There is been an accusation that I lied.
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: There has been an accusation on the floor of the House that I lied.
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I am here, and if I lied I want to be told where I lied.
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I am entitled to that. I am a Member of the House and I am entitled to that.
- Seanad: Naval Service Deployment: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I have not lied in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: There is room there for a stadium.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I read this morning in The Irish Timesof Michael Hayes's "courageous apology" for the IRA bombings in Birmingham in 1976. How hollow that reads. How is that courageous? This man allowed six men to languish in jail for 16 years-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: -----and kept his mouth shut. He had, no doubt, colleagues who assisted him. This was an attack on a pub where people were enjoying a social evening. Many things happened during the Troubles but this was one of the most disgusting of all. What is even more disgusting, however, is that this hollow apology is now being seen as a somehow courageous act. What is courageous about it? Can he...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: When I saw the bonfires being prepared last night - every year these massive goddamn bonfires - I was able to understand why there was conflict in the North of Ireland and why it degenerated into what it did. What I cannot understand, however, is a coward like this, who comes out now when it is safe claiming that he is sorry and apologising to the relatives of the Birmingham victims. He did...
- Seanad: Report of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Motion (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. As I said to her at a meeting of the select committee last week, she has a tough job ahead of her. I know she is up to it and I wish her all the best. Much groundwork has been done by the Government on Brexit and as an Independent Senator I acknowledge this work. Perhaps the citizens would be well served if they were given more...
- Seanad: Report of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Motion (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I ask the Minister of State that by autumn of this year there be direct communication with citizens to reassure them of where Ireland is going. I am delighted that she is in her new post and look forward to seeing her getting on and off planes across Europe and defending Ireland everywhere she goes. She will do that well. I thank her for coming to the...
- Seanad: Report of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Motion (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: The Senator can mention me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Pensions: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the members of the committee for allowing me to speak out of turn. The first thing I want to establish for the committee because I will not be here when the members go into private session is that pensions are an established property right going back to 1992 when, in Cox v.Ireland, Mr. Justice Finlay underwrote the property right of a pension. Again, in Lovettv.the Minister for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I rise today on the issue the Fianna Fáil Party has just brought forward, namely, the matter regarding the Defence Forces. The Minister of State at the Department of Defence is on record as saying he has pride in our Defence Forces. I would like to know whether he is proud to preside over a force where an average of 60 personnel of all ranks leave every month. Does he believe the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Where stands our neutrality in that regard? I read in the newspaper today that to allow for this, parts of our neutrality will be required to be set aside. Who gave the permission for this? I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, be brought before this House to explain where neutrality fits in with Operation Sophia.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Congratulations to the Leader if he is hurting.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: That is outrageous.