Results 101-120 of 5,475 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not mean to be critical but I do like to follow it on paper as the Minister of State speaks so that I can note various points. I do not mean to be awkward.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: We do not need them.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: We would chop a load off that.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: Do not start on the unions, please.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: A plebiscite is-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: It changes nothing.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: It surely is a fix.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: There is no money.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: What happened to their bonuses?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: They pay a higher property tax.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: There is no such thing as a computer generated e-mail.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: Put a bucket out.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is welcome to the House. I suppose when he saw me standing he said it must be time to go home.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: I criticised the Minister strongly for walking out of the Dáil when he introduced the Bill. I compliment him today on sitting through what must be a very tough time. I can see that he is anxious to get out of here. I also admire him for taking on the portfolio he took on for it was truly a poisoned chalice. Irish Water was established in 2013 and from the outset everything about this...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: I knew a time in my life when all I had to eat one day was a sliced pan and three beetroots. I know what real poverty is like.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: I am delighted to hear that because there are people who talk about €3 as if it was nothing.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: I got a phone call this afternoon from a councillor in Tralee to tell me that the Vincent de Paul in Tralee handed out 1,000 food parcels. The Minister may pass that on to some of our colleagues The Minister is encouraging me to divorce my wife of 38 years because my neighbour is getting his water for €60 because his is a one-person household. I am paying €160 and the guy up...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister says the bonus structure has gone away. I would like him to address this today because we both know that one cannot take away a term or condition of employment without compensating those who are entitled to it. I am not one bit concerned about the top guys who are going to walk away with megabucks in their pockets. I am talking about the guys who are on €35,000 or...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)
Gerard Craughwell: There are group e-mails, there are spam e-mails but some human somewhere has to make them initially.