Results 1-20 of 63 for drugs speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: The professions of paramedic and advanced paramedic are separate and individual. An advanced paramedic is able to insert cannulas into veins or arteries to administer pain relief or lifesaving drugs. The current search and rescue supplier in Ireland, CHC, uses advanced paramedics and has advanced paramedics on its crews. This means when they go to the most remote areas in Ireland to pick...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...entitled, "Ireland’s the ultimate defense freeloader". He sets out in great detail how we have freeloaded on our European neighbours for far too long. Right now, we are an open door into Europe for drug and people traffickers and those who wish to sail over our cables in the Atlantic.I am aware the Acting Leader, Senator Byrne, has an interest in that and he has often spoken on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: On the misuse of phones, it is an established fact that the cyber industry is worth more than the drugs industry to the criminal class. I was with Lloyds in London the week before last and it discussed the business of cyber criminality. It is now a business, with call centres, support systems and everything else in place. It is important. From the point of view of the suppliers, rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...be. Conceivably, a German ship could arrest a ship in Irish waters and have to escort it to Ireland for whatever action to be taken. We are not necessarily talking about military ships. We are talking about drugs, people trafficking and such things. Do the witnesses see that as something that might fly? It certainly flew in Bruges when I spoke about it. I could not possibly discuss...

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...want UN permanent members, many of whom do not agree with each other, to have a veto over our defence decisions? I recently suggested the establishment of an Atlantic fleet to keep Europe's seas safe from drug barons and people traffickers. Clearly no country in Europe is capable to patrol its seas, particularly along the Atlantic coast, but Ireland has a particular difficulty with one...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...to decide what kind of Taoiseach he was. For me, he was a sensitive and shy man who was nice to meet and have a word with. I wish him well wherever he goes from here. We are all aware of the drugs somebody tried to land off the south-west coast of this country last weekend. I understand drug barons are now using submarines to export drugs to Europe. The back door of Europe is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...capitalise on the organisations that are established in Europe and are under the umbrella of the EU. If we were a party to this programme, an amount of information would flow our way with respect to drug interdiction, defence, etc. We would have access to all that information. We really need to get on top of this issue. I note the motion on the Order Paper today concerning the Seanad...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...male drivers are all wrong; there is certainly some evidence but I am not so sure they all are. If I am uninsured, chances are I will not obey any other rule of the road either. If I am taking drugs, chances are I could not give a continental damn about other rules of the road. If I am drinking and driving, I certainly am not going to be too pushed about speed limits. I suggest to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: .... Somebody somewhere has got the way we look at things all wrong. I agree with Deputy Berry that we need to find a way to reinvigorate and bring in those new helicopters he spoke about. Deputy Cowen mentioned the drug bust off the south-west coast of Cork. How proud we all were of that drug bust. Due to the fact that there was only one helicopter available, if some of those soldiers...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...patrol duty allowance, the recent operation was multiagency, as the Minister of State knows. The Garda, Coast Guard, Naval Service and Revenue Commissioners were involved in it. All of the people involved in that massive drugs bust that we all speak so proudly about were paid the overnight subsistence allowance, except for the members of the Naval Service. In that particular situation,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: There has been much talk about the capture of the drugs vessel off the coast of Cork. We rightly commend the Defence Forces, the Garda, the Revenue and everyone else who was involved on their work. There was fantastic co-operation across the board. However, have we thought about what would have gone wrong if there had been weapons on board that ship and the helicopter involved in the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the Freedom of Information Act did not exist at the time, he will not be getting information. It is outrageous. A whistleblower working in the Prison Service has come to me now. He tells me of drugs being brought into the prisons to facilitate some of the notorious gangs that are in prison at the moment. He has been shifted from one prison to another because he reported what he saw....

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Annita Demetriou, Speaker of the Cypriot House of Representatives (13 Jun 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the generations. It goes from father and wife down through the family and indeed, in some cases, women who were involved in conflict. It passes right down through the children. Alcoholism, drug addiction and all of these things take place. I would ask Madam President to bring that thought to Cyprus and to look at how it might be affecting Greek Cypriots in particular. We talked about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...million was paid out by Irish citizens for scams in the past 12 months. We know 75% of SMEs have had a cyberattack at some stage or other in 2022. The cybercriminal industry is now more lucrative than the drugs industry, and it is cleaner, because the people who are engaged in cybercriminality do not have to go out on the streets to sell anything. By the way, there is a misconception out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Common Vision for Cybersecurity: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: We need to realise that cybercrime is now more lucrative than the drugs industry. It is a cleaner industry for the criminal and the risk of getting caught is probably lower. From that point of view, Mr. Umit Uygur talks about 3% of GDP. In Ireland GDP is a risky figure to be talking about.

Seanad: Ireland's Military Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: .... They have no working time directive as we speak. They are not permitted overtime. They cannot take industrial action for better working conditions. They must pass medical and fitness, and drugs, tests on a regular basis. Moreover, they are subject to archaic and obscure military law processes and are forced to retire early. Even when there is an adjudication, as in the case of the...

Seanad: Neurology Nurses: Motion (22 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...are required in neurology. A member of my family suffers epilepsy and a change of medication is a serious matter, given some of the side effects and changes involved in the transition periods between one drug and another. From that point of view, we need experts – nurses – on whom we can call. I once spent four months in Tallaght University Hospital. I saw my consultant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., today's engagement with Dr. Bedford has been far wider than just being a formality. I thank him for his engagement and for his willingness to engage with my colleagues on the area of drink and drug driving and the damage this does on the roads. I have been driving for approximately 42 years and the first time I was ever stopped and breathalysed was at 2 a.m. in Sandyford while...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cybersecurity Policy (12 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...what it has to say. Those in the industry are the experts out there fighting crime every day. The cost to this economy of cybercrime runs to billions of euro. It is now more profitable than the drugs industry, and that is frightening.

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...somebody or knows somebody who is dogged by the curse of addiction. I do not care what kind of addiction it is. Every one of them is bad, from the clean addiction of gambling down to the worst drug addictions, alcoholism and all of that. There is nothing more painful. With regard to the particular addict I am talking about, I recall getting a call telling me to go to the hospital...