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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I have never been able to multitask. I am very single-minded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I recall being in County Kerry some time ago, visiting Dingle. I told my wife that I had always wanted to drive the Ring of Kerry. I set my satnav and started driving. I drove for a while and the satnav instructed me to take the next left. I took the next left and continued on. The road started to get narrower and narrower until there was grass in the middle of it. I wondered how a bus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I am mindful that during the Celtic tiger in the noughties people were driving Range Rovers and other such vehicles around Foxrock. I said to a friend of mine that I wondered why they were driving the vehicles. He said that when they bought the vehicles, they got a pair of wellingtons too. They would go to the ploughing championship once a year to try out four-wheel drive. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Is it foreseeable that a situation will ever arise where it will be possible for me to drive into a forecourt, open a little pocket in the side of my car, wheel out the used battery and wheel in a new battery and take off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Okay. I must get Dr. O'Grady's number for the next time I am on the Ring of Kerry and I get lost.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I rise this morning a happy man for once with regard to the Defence Forces. A great piece of work was done by the Department in bringing forward the changes that are coming. It is a great day for the Reserve Defence Forces and private soldiers who will see substantial increases in their income. It gives great hope for the future. There always has to be a down side and with such a large...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I hope this is not another Tipperary thing.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I knew it would be about Tipperary.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Amendment No. 1 relates to a group elected by their peers as a student union. The Minister might clear up one issue for me. As I know from my trade union days, there is always a risk of fringe groups. I would hope the direction the HEA would give in the establishment of a student union is that it would be all-encompassing and that special interest groups would be encompassed within the...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I will speak very briefly. I can see where Senator Malcolm Byrne was coming from with respect to amendment No. 51, but I am a little concerned that an t-údarás may be silenced by a Minister, while the heads of higher education institutions may voice their views. I may be wrong, but that is my understanding. The Minister might clarify the position for me. Is it possible that the...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Amendment No. 70 deals with-----

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: But I never spoke on amendment No. 70.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Come on now.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Looking at the grouping it is very hard to see how one can jump from one place to another place. I was trying to facilitate debate with the Minister that would follow some sort of sequence.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Cathaoirleach will appreciate that this is a very important amendment that deals with city and county councils.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Higgins was allowed in a second time.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Senator Higgins was allowed to speak a second time.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I proposed this one.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I did. If you look at it you will see that No. 70 is proposed by me.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: You are telling me that the Member who proposes the first amendment in this group can speak a second time, but not others. This is the problem with grouping. It makes a situation where you have ruled us out from making our point.