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Seanad: Reports on Motor Insurance Costs: Statements (22 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: They could have been going to Lough Gur. We need to sort this out. Why is this happening? If it is the case, we need the insurance companies to come clean now and give us a list of those people who operate in areas like county councils, emergency response or voluntary football teams and tell us whether those people need to declare that when they are writing their policy. We do not want...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy David Stanton, for coming to the House to outline his plans for the introduction and implementation of electronic monitoring. As he knows, section 102 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 provides for the electronic monitoring of the restrictions of an offender's movements imposed by a court under section 101 of the same Act. To date, the section has not...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State. Like Councillor McGovern, I live in the area we are talking about. The week before last, while a man suffering from motor neurone disease was being helped into his family car to go for medical treatment, burglars literally walked through the front door, took anything that was of value, went out the back door, climbed over my garden wall and got away. My...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Like most of my colleagues, I look back over the past ten or 15 days as very black days in Ireland. My condolences go to all. I will have more to say tomorrow on an article in one of today's newspapers by Ger Aherne, a former general in the Irish Army. A week after I was elected to the Seanad, I got a letter from a garda recounting for me the events that led to me leaving the British Army...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: That is very much appreciated.

Seanad: JobPath: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Before I offer criticism, I congratulate the Department of Social Protection which has done a lot of good work over many years to provide access to further education and training for members of society. I benefited from its support when I returned to college in 1990 and will be forever grateful for its assistance and the humane approach taken by the officials with whom I dealt. There was no...

Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I propose to start with the Sinn Féin Party's contribution if that is acceptable to the House. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I think Senator Conway-Walsh for that truly heartfelt expression of condolence.

Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I understand Senator Dolan and Senator Alice-Mary Higgins are sharing time. There was originally an idea that only one person from each group would speak but because people wish to speak, I will not stop that.

Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I put the following message up on Facebook this morning. It states:Notwithstanding the fact that those claiming to speak for the IRA in 1974 put my family through hell, I am deeply saddened at the passing of Martin McGuinness. It took two men who wanted peace, McGuinness and Paisley, to find in their hearts the wherewithal to commence the journey of understanding of each other's tradition....

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am sorry there is not a female here in this seat to represent International Women's Day. As the brother of eight sisters, the husband of a wonderful wife and the father of an equally wonderful daughter----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: -----I hope the ladies rock on and have a great day. This morning, however, I wish to speak briefly about Paddy Power Betfair, who reported profits yesterday of €1.5 billion. Of those profits, €853 million come from their online gambling outlets. We have been talking about a gambling Bill in this House for some time. I wonder how many children went without their dinner in...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I call on Senator Ó Clochartaigh to move the amendment.

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: When I read Senator Conway's motion I thought it a really good motion. Then I came to the 9% VAT rate. It means €620 million going into this system and going into the pockets of the employers. Senator Lombard referred to the casualised nature of work. I believe he said that they cannot get workers in Kinsale. If they paid them, they would get them. If they paid them a living wage...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We are pumping €620 million of our hard-earned cash into the pockets of hoteliers and we are pumping an additional God knows how many millions of euro into their pockets by paying family income supplement. We are subsidising this industry. I have no doubt whatsoever that tourism is key to the Irish economy. I want to see the further education sector develop tourism courses. I want...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I join my colleagues in congratulating Bridget. I am glad that I was on the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission when the appointment was made. Many people have already addressed the situation in Tuam. I was brought up in Galway in the 1960s, under the tyranny of the famous Bishop Browne, where young girls who found themselves pregnant were sent away on holidays and were not pregnant when...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It will be on his Twitter account tonight.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: This morning as I was driving towards Dublin I was listening to the CEO of Allied Irish Banks, AIB, trumpeting the tremendous profits made by the bank and declaring that it was about to pay a dividend of €250 million to the State, the largest shareholder. While that in itself is good, let us examine it more closely. It is the most cynical move I have ever seen in my life. In fact,...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Vótáil.