Results 1-11 of 11 for ii speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...; (a) give the air carrier concerned notice in writing— (i) where the examination concerned is being carried out in respect of a complaint, setting out the particulars of the complaint concerned, or (ii) where the examination is being carried out of the Irish Aviation Authority’s own volition, setting out the matters to which the investigation relates, and (b) afford...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I would like to remark on the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II yesterday. My God, the British forces know how to do ceremony. As I was sitting watching them with their medals on their chests yesterday, I was mindful of how mean we are in this country when it comes to recognising valour and the issuing of medals. We are still fighting our way through the Jadotville situation and...

Seanad: Search and Rescue System: Motion (28 May 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the Irish Government’s adherence to the following international conventions and guidance manuals: - International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Convention, Annex 12; - ICAO Convention, Annex 14, Volume II, Heliports; - International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 1974: Chapter V ‘Search and Rescue’; - Convention on the High Seas 1958:...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...under section 53(1)(a) of this Act or that part of the statement referred which formed part of the Published Statement within the meaning of this Act insofar as it concerns—(i) knowledge of the law, (ii) skills and competence in the interpretation and application of the law, or (iii) ability to exercise functions as holders of judicial office.”.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...in the same court stands vacant, or (b) the following conditions are satisfied—(i) the Minister reasonably apprehends that more than one judicial office in the same court will stand vacant, and (ii) the Commission has received a request of the Minister (which request shall be addressed to the Commission and which, by virtue of this subsection, the Minister has power to make) that...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...I ever saw in my life are sitting in wheelchairs in the AV room but they have a death sentence hanging over them because they are two of 25 people who suffer from spinal muscular atrophy, SMA II. I shall not pretend to know anything about the disease. However, a clinician and a pharmacist are in the AV Room and they have informed people that there is a drug that will arrest the disease...

Seanad: Message from Joint Committee (3 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...consideration of the following order passed by the Seanad on 25 April 2018:(i) Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 95(3)) (Variation of title: Dietician) Regulations 2018, and (ii) Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 95(3)) (Variation of title: Speech Therapist) Regulations 2018. copies of which have been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...those regional authorities shall”, and (c) in subsection (12)—(i) by inserting “or from the Office of the Planning Regulator under that subsection,” after “from the regional authorities within the GDA under subsection (10),”, (ii) by inserting “or of the Office of the Planning Regulator so given,” after “the advice of the...

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Conway-Walsh. A good job was done in negotiating the agreement but I was president of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, when the first FEMPI was negotiated. It was tough going. Croke Park II collapsed and we went on to make the Lansdowne Road agreement. There was always deep-seated resentment at the fact that the FEMPI legislation brought in punitive measures for those who did not...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Gerard Craughwell: It is not a case of being the brave one. We saw Lisbon II.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Gerard Craughwell: We did not like Lisbon I and we did not like Lisbon II. Are we going to have plebiscite one, two, three and four, until such a time as some future Minister gets the answer he or she wants? I have huge reservations about this. I support the Minister in trying to fund water but I cannot support this Bill without a referendum. While I would like to stay on my feet talking, I am just totally...