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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UK Withdrawal from the EU: British Ambassador to Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Could I cut in for one moment please? I have just remembered the other issue I wished to raise. There are 100,000 UK citizens in Northern Ireland who have become naturalised by virtue of the fact that they moved there to take up employment. They include university academic staff, medical staff and so forth from various parts of the world who have been naturalised in Northern Ireland. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UK Withdrawal from the EU: British Ambassador to Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: On the issue of academic co-operation, many young students go from here to the UK for third level study or postgraduate qualifications. I do not believe the ambassador will be able to answer my question but he might include the answer in his follow-up correspondence. I am concerned that those students who will start an academic career over the next two years will spend their first year...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Like my colleague, Senator Ardagh, I believe the transport situation has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. There has to be ministerial involvement at this stage. At the very least, the Minister could talk to the company and tell them to get back into the WRC and to remain there until such a time as they find a solution. To sit on the bench and refuse to play part in this is not the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Beyond Mullingar.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The management also needs to take the medicine that it has dished out to workers.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I rise to discuss the Garda Síochána again. I was disturbed all night last night thinking about the pressure on Commissioner O'Sullivan to resign and step aside. I did a little bit of work on the Garda Síochána, and it is interesting to note that in the history of the State no Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces has been forced out of office. Since the foundation of...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that and I am coming to my point. I believe 60% of Garda Commissioners have been hounded out of office since the foundation of the State. In senior Garda management today there is somebody who knows what is going on and is afraid to speak. I put out a call today and I hope the Leader will support me. Whoever that person is, let the entire force not be tarred with a rotten...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: That is disgusting.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. a1q:In page 5, line 10, after “property” to insert the following:“having due regard to the architectural heritage of the structures near which the berths, buoys, or moorings are proposed to be placed”.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I rise to speak on amendment a1z. This requires that by-laws be communicated in writing to each local authority. There is no way that we can allow organisations to operate on the hope that the message will get through at some stage or other. We have to put it into the legislation to ensure that local authorities are aware of them and are communicated with at every stage. Given that the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: My phone? I must have one phone on for my hearing aids, sorry. It controls them. I switch them in and out so that I can hear the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: At any rate, the consultation period must be long enough to allow for people to get submissions ready and get them in together.I will leave it at that. I am sorry about the phone.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It is amendment No. a1z.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We will not tell anybody.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Richmond is new.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: As Fine Gael.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Senators Fintan Warfield and Lynn Ruane for bringing the Bill before the House. I am delighted that there are some young people in the Visitors Gallery. Today they have received their first lesson in politics: "They should have the vote but the Whip states they cannot and the Whip is superior to everyone else. Sorry about my personal feelings, but I will put them aside because the...