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Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I just want to say a few brief words. The Minister of State is a proud Limerick man. I have known him for many years. This is a great day for him. He is driving home a Bill for an elected mayor in his city, one of the finest cities in Ireland. I know him from way back. His commitment to Limerick was never in question at any time. He has taken amendments on board and modified the Bill...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I am so delighted I left. Seriously, this is a fantastic day's work for the Minister of State. I congratulate him on a great day's work. I am delighted that he was the Minister of State to drive this forward.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I suppose they are in County Tipperary.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I am not surprised.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: At the outset, I congratulate the Deputy Leader.From working with her in recent years, I genuinely feel that she has shown herself to be an extremely independent person and an independent thinker. She has been rewarded by being selected and now she has to go and do the hard work. I wish her well in that. On the referendum, I am becoming more and more concerned at what I believe are the...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Before I launch into what I have to say, I understand planning permission would be required to remove the current Derrybrien wind generators. I will be objecting to that planning permission and taking this as far as I possibly can. I disagree with some of what the previous speaker said. We are talking about changing a law, not ignoring the law. Today, we heard a detailed and valid argument...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Can I interrupt for a moment? What Mr. Guinan is telling me is what any normal representative body does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: My colleague, Senator McDowell, and others have raised the matter of the oversight body. RACO and PDFORRA were both members of the previous oversight body. There was no problem I was aware of and I have to put on record that this committee should insist there is counterbalance on the oversight body and that the representative bodies have membership, along with the Secretary General-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Yes, or the Secretary General should leave and then there would be no requirement for any counterbalance. However, I would favour RACO and PDFORRA being members of the oversight body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: It is important to say that I constantly get comments about the fact that people such as myself and my colleagues Deputies Berry and Stanton and Senator Wilson are negative about the Defence Forces. We have the representative bodies here this evening. Their final statement this evening was about the wonderful career that Defence Force membership offers people. We need to compliment them on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Not much is left to be asked. For the PDFORRA and RACO representatives, has a member of their organisations, that they are aware of in the history of those organisations, ever been charged for making political statements or interfering in the political process? Mr. Berney made a very important point. As a former president of a trade union myself, it has always been the case that changes...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: We have had a debate in this House on the proposed thirty-ninth and fortieth amendments to the Constitution. I call for an amendment to the Order of Business to bring the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, to the House to explain what knowledge the State had, before it set the date of 8 March, of a case before the Supreme Court, BM and JM v. Ireland and the Supreme Court. This is a case of the most...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: With all due respect, if the Acting Leader had listened, she would know I said it leapfrogged the Court of Appeal.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: We must be accurate in what we say.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I did not say-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: This is going beyond the simple question I asked.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I have indeed.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: They are being stretched now by the Acting Leader.