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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: It was reckless in its behaviour with respect to safety.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: The name of the one-person company is long in the public domain.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister named the company, not me, so-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: My point is-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: These issues have to be aired in public.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: We are about to reward a contract to a company again for ten years. If, for example, the incumbent is part of the tendering process-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: Do I not have an obligation as a public representative to raise these issues?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: -----and the only place I can do that safely is in here because I have been threatened by the Department-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: -----that it will contact the other people.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: Let me put something on the record.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: We have been prevented many times from talking about SAR services. We now have a Bill going through this House-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: I am trying to be as-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: I am trying to be measured here. We have a Bill on air navigation going through the House. We are not listening to the pilots. We must listen to the pilots lest we find ourselves down this road again.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is welcome to the House. At the outset, I want to say that our officials throughout the world, anywhere I have ever been, have been amazing people doing an amazing job. The Minister, and indeed his forerunners as Minister for Foreign Affairs, have had high profiles internationally and have served the country well. However, let us start with Iran. I cannot understand why,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: Well that is okay, Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: Certainly, I would agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I am talking about the public perception. People think the Security Council is just a talking shop. I looked at resolutions going before the Security Council between 1946 and 2011. I think those were the dates. There were something like 11 pages of resolutions that had been vetoed by the big five. It makes people wonder what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: It is the second or third paragraph-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: This is the one on climate. I understand the way we get around the problem of having resolutions vetoed is that we do not publish the resolution until we are sure we have everybody on side. If that is the way the Security Council works, it is really only a talking shop. We have to be brave and we have to publish whatever resolutions we want. We should let them veto it if they want....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: I want to put two things on the record. One is the Minister's responsiveness when I have called on him for assistance outside this forum. I recall contacting him during the Kabul evacuation and within moments he came back to me. I know he did everything he could for the individual involved. The other matter relates to the Security Council. My concern is more about the frustration the...