Results 4,141-4,160 of 5,750 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I ask the Senator, in deference to everybody, not to use names in the House.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Again, Senator, I will ask you not to name people who are not here to speak for themselves.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I ask the Senator again, please do not refer to people in the Visitors Gallery. It is unfair.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: While I may well wish to see the persons in question named, such decisions are not within my gift. I must implement the rules of the House.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: As far as I am concerned and for as long as I have been a Senator, persons are not named in the House.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: The Senator's time has concluded.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator, other people want to speak.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Frank Feighan has five minutes.
- Seanad: Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters: Statements (17 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I must ask the Senator to conclude.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Public Transport Provision (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for recent correspondence on the issue I raise. While I was pleased to receive a comprehensive account regarding some public transport projects being funded from the Exchequer capital transport envelope, I am disappointed it is proving difficult to draw a clear line between investment in the greater Dublin area and the rest of the country, specifically Cork city and...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Public Transport Provision (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive answer. I suppose that when we are talking about capital investment and projects such as this one it might be helpful to publish figures upfront for the various metropolitan areas or large urban areas outside the greater Dublin area. The Minister will be aware of the number of times people like him and me, who live in the capital, are accused of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Tonight's "Prime Time" programme will feature a piece on the Defence Forces. I commend PDFORRA and RACO on their excellent work on behalf of their members. The Leader will be aware that neither of these two representative bodies has the full rights of a trade union and therefore they are extremely limited in what they can and cannot do. Anybody watching what is going on at the moment hears...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: We need a director of national security.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: He will take advice from the Attorney General, but that is a position Senator McDowell held.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not for a moment-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: Soldiers are living in poverty.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: They would not do so. No soldier would ever go on strike.
- Seanad: Migrant Integration Strategy: Statements (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I was fortunate enough to bump into the Minister of State prior to departing for Ragusa on a 40 hour round trip to Sicily to look at migrant reception centres there. I commend the Minister of State and his Department on putting this strategy in place, for it has not arrived a day too early. The crisis of migration across the Mediterranean is in its infancy. I was shocked by the numbers I...
- Seanad: Migrant Integration Strategy: Statements (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: -----and take him to parts of Dublin where children attend national and secondary schools in which there is not one white child. They are all migrants. Why do I say this? I say it because we have a problem. It is not the Minister of State's problem. This was in place a long time before he was in place. We have ghettoised-----
- Seanad: Migrant Integration Strategy: Statements (16 May 2017)
Gerard Craughwell: I will conclude in two seconds. We have ghettoised the problem. We have racism growing at a phenomenal rate and cultural issues in our schools. The absolute rejection of things such as sex education in our schools was reported to me recently. These are issues coming down the line. I wish the Minister of State well with the migrant integration strategy and congratulate him on bringing it...