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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I would like the following to find its way into any report we might do: modern life and modern governance requires there is a return on investment by way of profit or whatever to the State. If we are going to give post offices €12 million we want to see what we are going to get back out of it. However, some things in life simply are not quantifiable. Mr. O'Hara put his finger on it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Do the post offices get a transaction payment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: If I buy stuff online or whatever-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Banks get a kickback on everything they do. I appreciate what Grant Thornton did and the macro view from a purely commercial point of view, but there is a side to the post office that is not commercial and cannot be quantified. I do not know how we can square that circle, and there is no answer the witnesses can give me today. I have listened to their answers and everything else. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On that very question, back in the day when I was a kid myself, when we were at school we had a post office savings book. I think it was stamps at the time, if I am not mistaken. We used to buy penny stamps or something and we would save up a fiver for Christmas or whatever. Do children use the saving services of the post office or do they all use the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I hope I have not reduced the union's argument by insisting there should be a public service fee available to postmasters and postmistresses. The sum of €12 million is a small amount of money to keep them alive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: As the Chair is speaking, I am thinking of my home county of Galway and the town of Athenry. Monivea and Menlo which are two small villages outside of Athenry. All have post offices. The banks are moving away from places such as Athenry and it is difficult to carry out any banking transaction. If Monivea and Menlo post offices close, then it does not matter what age I am, if I want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: One cannot pay for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome Mr. Owens. I am sorry that he was here, then we were gone and now we are back. That is the nature of committees. I am deeply impressed to hear that he was educated on Eblana Avenue. I spent 25 years right next door to him in the Senior College Dún Laoghaire, which later had classrooms on Eblana Avenue. There has been some change to the buildings in that sector. I have to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The Acting Leader looks extremely well in the new suit. I congratulate him on his elevation.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Cathal Brugha Barracks is 100 years old today. A parade is being held in the barracks to celebrate. It is rather distressing to me that the bourgeois Green Party of the middle class wants to see Cathal Brugha Barracks bulldozed to the ground to provide a site for property for the well-heeled in south County Dublin. Cathal Brugha barracks is a vital part of Dublin's infrastructure and of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: To the barracks, of course. I do not often agree with my colleague Senator Ó Donnghaile, but Sinn Féin had a tremendous win in the Northern election. In my lifetime, we now have a situation where a nationalist group should be in control in the North of Ireland. Due to the Good Friday Agreement, which is respected by all, there is a shared responsibility. In that context, it is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cybersecurity Policy (12 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Acting Chairperson. I am sorry that the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, has been thrown into this issue as it is not his area of responsibility. It is regrettable that the Minister who is responsible for cybersecurity is not here. Legislation on cybersecurity is scheduled to come before the Oireachtas in the summer of 2022, as the cybercrime Bill is due shortly. I have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cybersecurity Policy (12 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: Two years before the HSE was hit the NHS in the UK was taken down and nothing was done in this country to check our systems to make sure we would be robust enough in the event of an attack. The document given to the Minister of State by the Department today reads well. It reads as well as the strategy document but I am afraid the Department should read what was said at the last meeting we...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Are they from Cork?

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

Gerard Craughwell: Over the weekend, we learned of another member of the Defence Forces from the vital bomb disposal services who is leaving because he cannot afford to keep his family on his income. A payment of €35 for a 24-hour duty is hardly an incentive to stay. There are talks commencing with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, with respect to the current pay round because of inflation etc....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The witnesses are very welcome to this hearing. I congratulate them on putting together a representative body because, based on what we have before us and what we have heard in the past, there is no representative body for the rank and file. I was involved with voluntary organisations for quite a lot of my young life but I was never involved in an organisation from which people could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: All of the witnesses are senior members of the Irish Coast Guard Volunteers Representative Association. Will they give me some idea of the level of morale within the organisation? Given that all members are volunteers, I am sure that morale is needed to keep people going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: The volunteers have no right to engage with the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: These people are volunteers.