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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: I am grateful to the Cathaoirleach for allowing me in even though I was not scheduled to speak. The death of Austin Currie, as many of my colleagues have said, is a tremendous loss to Ireland. My sympathies go to his family. It is a pity we do not have more people like Austin Currie now working in Northern Ireland, people with nothing but peace in their minds, hearts and everything they...
- Seanad: Vacancy in Membership of Seanad Éireann: Motion (10 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: I second the motion.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: Last Saturday, we gathered in Cathal Brugha Barracks to remember the men of Niemba and the Niemba massacre. It is timely to remember that members of the Irish Defence Forces lose their lives, sometimes brutally, as they serve overseas. Next Sunday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and many other cathedrals around the country, we will remember the Irish who fell in the first and second world...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: It is in the report. I am not saying anything that is not public knowledge.
- 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.