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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I want to go back to accidents that took place before this legislation. We clearly have a problem with the marine accident investigation board that was in place at the time. Regarding this legislation, and we have a problem in that we are on a very tight timeline for pre-legislative scrutiny on it, which I do not particularly agree with. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: If the Bill is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: If I may, the Clinch report-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: -----has been mentioned by more than one person. We are being asked to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny but we are not being provided with the tools to allow us to analyse past mistakes or issues. One or maybe both hands are being tied behind our backs, and both ankles are being nobbled as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: Well, somebody is. The bottom line is it is up to this committee to decide whether it is prepared to allow that to happen. I would be interested in Mr. Kingston's views on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: Should it not, like the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, or the Ombudsman, be located completely away from any Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: The Deputy mentioned the fox looking after the henhouse. We spent two and a half years on the Air Navigation and Transport Bill before we finally got the Minister to agree that the people who wrote the legislation were the people we were trying to regulate. If we are going through pre-legislative scrutiny, I do not want the marine accident investigation Bill to come to the Seanad and be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: The public are watching now and I hope they know-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: What I am saying is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: Captain Clinch must come before the committee even if we have to fly him in from wherever he is. If we have to fund that, so be it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: In deference to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, and I do not mean to call his position into question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: -----but I wrote today to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to say that the work of this committee is being impeded because a permanent Chairman to the committee has not been appointed. I hope the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach is appointed because he would be a fine Chairman and I would have no problem with that at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: The point is we have no teeth. I firmly believe that the Government is stalling in appointing a Chairman because we cannot do anything without one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: The Attorney General-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: Certainly not.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: Like my colleagues, I congratulate the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the European Union on the wonderful negotiations that led to the Windsor agreement. We should also congratulate Sinn Féin on the measured response it issued yesterday and the unionists who have come forward to say this is a great day. I hope that those who are still struggling with it will find a way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is very welcome to the committee. I congratulate him, Prime Minister Sunak, and the European Union on the wonderful achievement yesterday. The measured responses that we have had since are vitally important at a time like this so that we stall the horses, as it were, and let us not annoy anybody at this stage. We must give everybody time and space to absorb the wonderful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister has put the neutrality issue in perspective here today. These are days of worrying about land wars, tanks and guns, and whatever else. We are living in a whole new world. Some 75% of our small and medium enterprises, SMEs, have been hit by cyberattacks and that is right across the European Union. There is a whole new world out there and neutrality is too simple a word to...