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- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Go raibh maith agat.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: That is not a point of order.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I will have him know I was once a pin-up for people, so the age before beauty thing-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I am inclined to support my colleagues, Senators Higgins and Grace O'Sullivan. I am aware of a site not too far from my home where the developer held back the last seven houses and has recently put them back on the market with the price increased by €100,000. These were houses costing €700,000 which have gone up to €800,000. It was a smart move - a couple of weeks and...
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Shame on both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. They wonder why mainstream politics is losing its footing in this country. It is doing so because of what we see here today. We have, as my colleague, Senator McDowell, said at the weekend, a Government in office but not in power. The Green Party, with three Members of the Oireachtas, including my colleague, Senator O'Sullivan, has introduced...
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: They do not have a clue. They thought, "Wow, here is something we can grab." They thought the Bill would grab the public imagination. They thought they should take the old Green cloak, quickly wrap it around themselves and claim to be concerned about the environment. To hell with their concern for the environment. If there was something wrong with the Bill, why did they not talk to the...
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Fianna Fáil claims it will introduce a much broader and far more encompassing Bill, which Fine Gael will then shoot down because it has a better Bill. All the while, these horrible little things float around in the waters off the coast of this country. Shame on Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil for their deceit and their attempt to try to suppress the smaller party in the Oireachtas....
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Acting Chairman, do I have the floor?
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State is a decent guy. I know he did not send a letter to Senator O'Sullivan at 5.25 p.m. yesterday. It strikes me that at the 24th hour, or the 23rd hour and 59th minute, the Department suddenly woke up and realised that the Bill was to come before the Seanad the following day and that it had not had the time to consider it. It had been so tied up in housing and all the...
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Yes. On Committee Stage the Minister of State should table the necessary amendments to make it the wonderful Bill that Fine Gael would have introduced, had it written it in the first place.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Is this the Government's version of new politics?
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I never worried about point B.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: We cannot when Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have come together.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order, the Leader referred to how people come in and constantly oppose the Government. I frequently vote with the Government in circumstances where it deserves my support. I want to make that clear.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear. Well done. Mature politics.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister could do it by amendment.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I would like to correct the Minister on one issue.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: On a point of order-----