Results 201-220 of 5,447 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No, it is not.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: The Government uses the guillotine.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: The electorate is in no doubt.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Well said.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank AILG and LAMA for their interaction with us on these issues. I also thank my colleagues, Senators Boyhan and Keogan, for leading out and bringing Fianna Fáil to the table to understand the needs of county councillors. It is rather sick that people are claiming their party or another party did what was required, because all of us are responding to local authority members. In...
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not going to take a lot of the Minister's time. When she gets to the regulations, I ask that she consider providing that a member of the local authority be the chair. I will leave it at that. There has been enough said today.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I am wondering about allowing local authority members to come in. The Minister said that any local authority member who wants to sit in on the committee can do so. Will they have voting rights or will voting rights be restricted to the original number?
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: They will have full voting rights.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I am delighted to see that the Leas-Chathaoirleach has covered most of our electorate but he missed out on one or two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Councillor Leonard from Wicklow talks about the Rosslare line. I understand now that the train is so overcrowded that people stand all of the time. She has made the request for at least two more carriages to be added. She also mentions people carrying bicycles on the train, and this is becoming a problem. I use the Luas and have seen people bringing their bicycles into seated and standing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: That is a problem. Councillor Joe Conway - I got another one of my councillors in, thank God - has highlighted the fact that the disabled toilet on the Waterford train has been out of service since 2 December. Of all the people to let down, and I know because my son-in-law is in a wheelchair, any time wheelchair users want to travel, it is particularly difficult to have access and find...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: My kind of guy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No, it was the train here and I have the photographs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I will finish up by saying that Mr. Meade did respond very quickly to the call for early morning trains from Ballina and he is to be complimented on that. I thank him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: People do, and especially these scooters we are still waiting to regulate.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: As we move through the period up to the referendum on 8 March for the thirty-ninth and fortieth amendments to the Constitution, it is vital and important that the public is protected from mis- or disinformation. The women of Ireland can thank the Irish Countrywomen's Association and several other women's associations that led change in Ireland over the years. Many of those associations are...