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- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: -----I wish to raise a point of information to clarify a matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Then, I wish to raise a point of order.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I made the point that I had written to Senators but I did not write to the individual Independents Members of this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Great. The Senator might start answering their inquiries.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: The Senator will include me in the discussions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: It is an Independent Senator looking for this. It would be nice to be included.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I have also put down freedom of information requests.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: In fairness, it is new to Senators Wilson and Cummins too. That is why they have done absolutely nothing to date. They have sat on their hands.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not getting a bit excited. It is time the Members in question did, however.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: It has been a long time for some Members, so much so that they have forgotten it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: It pains me to raise the issue to which I propose to refer given the excellent news adverted to by Senator Colm Burke in the context of the up to 1,000 new jobs to be created in Cork, which heralds a great success for the Government. However, I rise to speak about the practice that led to the closure of Clerys department store in O'Connell Street. My colleague, Senator Norris, addressed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not want to get into the Seanad by-election name-calling but there are serious e-mails being sent to me and other Members of this House in recent days, and I think somebody somewhere needs to deal with them fairly quickly. I rise today with respect to the Order of Business of 22 October, where Senator John Crown asked the acting leader of the day, Deputy Paul Coghlan, to amend the Order...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: The Leader should not blame the teachers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. My questions are addressed in the main to Mr. Carroll and Mr. Corcoran. I had some serious difficulties with the JobBridge scheme. The plan itself was good and offered potential to people to experience work for which they may have just upskilled or whatever. However, in some cases at least, I believe it was grossly abused. I am referring to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: With all due respect to the Senator, I mentioned the education sector, in which people were employed as teachers, special needs assistants and porters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: In fairness-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: -----there is no point in the Senator and I arguing about it. Mr. Carroll knows exactly what I am talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: As we go through this each time I come here - it is good of Senator O'Donnell to be here today - we should hear from Mr. Carroll.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: It now has been a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I accept fully what Mr. Carroll has said and reiterate a great job has been done in some places under JobBridge. There is little or no doubt that in parts of the public service the moratorium on recruitment meant that job vacancies went unfilled. Some of them were filled through the JobBridge scheme. I accept that people took these jobs voluntarily, but there were no prospects when they...