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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.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes. I am glad that we have at last found out that Fianna Fáil is for the birds today.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Acting Chairman has suggested that he should leave the room and for the Minister to sit in the ante-room. That is what should happen. This Bill should be stopped in its tracks right now.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We do not need this Bill in order to trim the hedgerows along roadways. That work can be done under by-laws. I have never been contacted by so many people and received so many polarised views on every aspect of this Bill. Sections of this Bill should be dealt with by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The Bill is a...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The section does.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The amendment was to the section, yes.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: If the Acting Chairman and I depart then we can all go home. We know what will happen. Fianna Fáil will support this measure and the Bill will more than likely pass.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: With respect, I accept what the Acting Chairman has said. It appears that that is the case.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I agree with the previous speakers. It is all very well setting up organisations such as Waterways Ireland but they must be accountable locally. There is this notion that somebody in an office somewhere in the midlands can make decisions for the entire country without any local accountability. We are moving further and further away from local accountability as we progress legislation...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Following on from what Senator Paul Daly said, this section presents a serious problem. As Senator Daly said, we do not know where Waterways Ireland will stand post-Brexit? This entire section may be deemed totally and utterly useless. We could have two countries, the North of Ireland and the South of Ireland, each having a different set of regulations and different criteria. This has...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for agreeing to that. As a result of the 90 days I will be withdrawing four amendments straight away that were offering the Minister a compromise, but the Minister has not looked for one.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: That is reasonable.