Results 221-240 of 5,447 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I appreciate that this is not the debate. She wrote: Article 41.2 may not hurt women directly, but it frames our lives, our society and our value. It gives the State the oppressive role of keeping women from careers or employment of our own, ensuring “that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home”. Ms...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No, no. It is important-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Fire away.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I understand the Cathaoirleach's perception there-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No, the fact here is that disinformation and misinformation is being spread by one of the agencies funded by this State, that is, the National Women's Council. She is directly-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: No. She is directly opposing what Ms Justice Denham said. Ms Justice Denham stated the recognition and acknowledgment does not exclude women and mothers from other roles and activities. We must be very straight. It is no secret I am opposed to the referendums.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: We have to be very clear in the information we put into the public domain. Of all agencies, the National Women's Council that was founded-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I am seeking a retraction by the National Women's Council for this scurrilous statement.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: It is a matter for this House-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: -----and the National Women's Council can hear it from here.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Hang on a minute. The Cathaoirleach cut me off several times. Give a guy a break here.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Listen now. The year 1973, more than 50 years ago, was when the marriage ban disappeared so let us be honest with people. Let us be straight. The judgment in the Supreme Court yesterday-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: -----changed the rules regarding children. I will speak more this afternoon.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I love the way the Cathaoirleach cut me off, I really do, but these things are important. Accurate, clear information for the public is what is needed, not rhetoric.
- Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: What a lesson I have had today in understanding what has been confusing for years. I am looking at the old wording of the Constitution, which states "The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home."
- Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Senator Ruane remarked on the social welfare changes that forced single mothers to declare that they were available for work once their children turned 14. Was that complying with the Constitution as it stood at the time? I doubt it very much.
- Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: I understand exactly where the Senator is coming from. Speaking of being married or not married, a friend of my father for 33 years was married for seven years. When he separated from his wife, he moved in and lived with another woman. When he died 26 years later his pension was paid to his former wife, not to the woman he lived with. That was an anomaly. What I see in this...
- Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: This is an important part of the amendment.
- Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: That is fine. It says that it will keep women from careers and employment. The Minister needs to address that, because that is another important issue that is impacting the way this referendum will go. I am afraid the wording we have at the moment is flawed. My colleagues on both sides this morning have shown the flaws. The Civil Engagement Group and Senator McDowell have shown the...
- Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Hear, hear.