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Seanad: Recent Education Announcements: Statements (21 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Underutilised, for want of a better word. I am looking for the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Joint Sitting with Joint Committee on European Union Affairs
First Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Mr. Timmermans is very welcome. I have a couple of questions for him. First and foremost, everybody we speak to in Europe talks about the special status for Northern Ireland. Will the witness accept that it is a three-way process that will involve the goodwill of the European Union, the United Kingdom and Ireland in negotiating some sort of special relationship? I feel that it will...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: When I turned on my radio this morning I heard that politics was being played with the Maurice McCabe issue, and I hope we will not have that in this House this evening. It is a very serious issue which has gone on for far too long. We have in front of us the terms of reference of the tribunal of inquiry, which I hope can be agreed in this House without politicising the issue. The issue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: What I am talking about is in the public domain.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It is in the public domain.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Superintendent Taylor was forced out of his job for 22 months.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Garda Commissioner must take a neutral position and in doing so that requires that she steps down and steps aside while the tribunal is going on. Whether she returns or not will be a matter for the outcome of the tribunal, but she must step down, and she must do that immediately.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: We are not trying to.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It is grossly unfair of the Leader to throw back things that Members cannot reply to during his presentation. That is unfair in every sense of the words.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The points that people make need to be addressed, but not to be addressed in a political way.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am glad the Leader has accepted that the Seanad will move to that stage.

Seanad: Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: It took Superintendent Geary from Ennis around 70 years to get justice from An Garda Síochána. Like my colleague, Senator Robbie Gallagher, I compliment the gardaí, sergeants, inspectors and superintendents who will go to work tonight and have no guarantee that they will come home and who have served the country with distinction. I send a message from this Chamber that not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I congratulate the Chairman on the way he chaired the meetings in Brussels and ensured everybody from this committee had an opportunity to make their points. Likewise, the secretariat did a fantastic job, ensuring we got 14 meetings in two days when we met quite a number of important people. Until I went to Brussels I was unaware of the level of work the Minister of State had undertaken....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I raise the issue of time for debate in this House. The Minister, Deputy Zappone, will come to the House this afternoon. I appreciate she has limited time available in order to deal with questions. However, right now several organisations in the State are at risk of suffering severe reputational damage which may go on into the future. The Senate has to come to terms with the new politics....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: And other families too.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I am delighted the Leader was able to read it.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: No, I think I was making a new reality.

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: The Senator is over time and the Minister wants time to reply.