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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rural Resettlement Scheme (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State is earning his keep this morning. I thank him for coming to the House to provide clarification on a statement made in respect of a Commencement matter tabled by Senator Conway on 14 December last year. Mr. Jim Connolly asked me to bring this issue to the attention of the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Mr. Connolly is the founder and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rural Resettlement Scheme (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. There is no doubting his commitment to the housing crisis, or indeed that of the senior Minister. It might be no harm to contact with Mr. Jim Connolly and also to reconsider or to try to organise that the agency would not close but rather would continue to do its good work. We need to get people back into rural Ireland. I thank the Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Leader will know that I frequently have a go at the Government when I feel it is important. Today, however, as the current Taoiseach exits office, I want to place on the record of the House the job he has done in respect of Brexit, along with the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs, Deputy Dara Murphy. I am just back from a COSAC plenary meeting in Malta at which...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I feel deeply aggrieved about the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Thank you.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the Minister of State and call the House to order.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Thank you, Senator.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator is out of time.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I must ask the Senator to stop now because if I do not then other speakers who are waiting will not get in.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: One last thing, very quickly.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: At 8.15 p.m.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We cannot make the Minister come here when she is tied up elsewhere, so I am looking for an alternative proposal.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Is the Leader proposing that we not take No. 7 on the Order of Business for today?

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Is that acceptable to the Members?

Seanad: Business of Seanad (31 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Will the Leader move that we will not take this item of business?

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...