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Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I will not do so at this time.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: The proposed amendment mentions evidence made to the inspector "after receiving a caution". There is a proviso. Is the constitutional provision met by this?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: We sought to remove the phrase "shall not" and substitute the phrase "made to the Inspector after receiving a caution shall".

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I do not wish to delay the Minister. Does he wish to gather information without compelling somebody in doing so? If we use the word "caution", are people compelled to answer, which may damage the collection of evidence?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I support Senator Cullinane's request to reduce the period from 42 days to 28 days. It never ceases to amaze me that we provide such latitude to organisations that have all the resources in the world available to them to prepare documentation. A period of 28 days is an ample amount of time for an employer to put together any documentation required. A period of 42 days is excessive and not...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: They have a lot more than their employees.

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: Tá fáilte romhat, a tAire Stáit. I pressed an amendment to this Bill last week to provide that warnings would be issued by Government on all gambling and betting outlets. My colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, brought to the Seanad's attention the number of gambling machines that are available in betting offices. I heard today that a public house in the south east, well away...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I deeply regret naming him. However, he had no difficulty naming me.

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: He put his name into the public array when he named me and put his byline to it. Therefore, I do not apologise.

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: Perhaps it was political folly, but I do not know that it is given the damage being done to families. Families are being destroyed. Let us consider what wives are told. The man who came to see me haunts me. I have thought of him going home to his wife and asking her to sit down because there is something he has to tell her. This haunts me because in 1983 when my business went bust, I had...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I wait with bated breath for the gambling control Bill. Last night, I was thinking about gambling.As I was thinking about it, an advertisement appeared on the television offering me access to the best bingo game in the world. I could pick from five or six by dialling some number or getting online. No sooner had that advertisement finished than something came up on the television offering...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I just feel very passionate about this. When the Minister of State goes back to his office today, he needs to pick up the phone and ring the head of Revenue and the Minister of State in the Department of Justice and Equality and get them to ring An Garda Síochána. Let us bring them together in a room, sit down and see what we can do without the warnings I am looking for to limit...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I call on the Leader to arrange as quickly as possible a debate on the current state of law and order. I live in the peaceful suburbs of south County Dublin. Recently, I attended a meeting called by Deputy Ross. A senior member of An Garda Síochána was also present. Deputy Ross invited members of the public to speak. A young lady stood up and asked the most dangerous and risky...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I would appreciate a debate as a matter of urgency.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I must first place on record my support for the Minister of State regarding the way in which he has accepted those amendments he has been in a position to accept. I must also indicate my support for Government amendment No. 7. When we begin to refer to international best practice, etc., we become involved in debates regarding what is best and what is not, who thinks what is best and so...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I am quite prepared to set them aside if that suits the Chair.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I support amendment No. 7 as opposed to that put forward by Senator Zappone. I do so because I am of the view that the amendment will be accepted in both Houses. On that basis, I wish to support the Minister of State. We fought hard to get a two-year review period put in place, achieve adherence to international best practice and the various other goals to which amendment No. 1 refers....

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I agree with everything that has been said, but I am a realist and have spoken to Members of the Oireachtas around Leinster House. This Bill has yet to go to the Dáil, but if we accept this amendment I believe the Bill will come back here. A considerable number of Deputies will want to have the cover of medical expertise. It is regrettable but I ask that this amendment should not be...