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- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The Acting Chair is very observant. He can figure out where people are from by just looking at them.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Some time ago I reported that one of our CHC helicopters was forced to land on Valentia Island. Some weeks ago, one of our helicopters was forced to make an emergency landing in Derry, and I understand that, last night, Rescue 115 was forced to land off the coast of Clifden. I have brought up the issue of this organisation several times in this House, and I am very concerned it may 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: 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-----