Results 1-20 of 62 for destroyed speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Forces having been commissioned into the State. It is absolutely diabolical, however, that within ten years most of them will have left the Defence Forces because of the 2013 pension, which has destroyed public service. The 2013 pension was brought in by civil servants who had well-heeled pensions themselves and were well looked after by the State. They destroyed public service in this...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...for standing for a photograph. I have been a man of peace all my life. I have never wanted conflict. I support what the Civil Engagement Group is doing with respect to limiting weapons going out to destroy lives in Gaza. There is only one solution in Gaza, and that is a two-state solution. I will not be lectured by somebody who would not be in this House but for the fact that people...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., specifically the pensions. She must go back to the pre-2008 pensions for uniformed services in order to encourage people to come in and to give full-life service. I am afraid the post-2013 pension has destroyed the services. That is not a pinch point. That is a stranglehold on the organisation and the organisation will die. Just as the Defence Forces have fallen apart, it will die...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of conclusions about my gold-plated pension, I am caught like every other worker in the country by the single pension Act. There are no gold-plated pensions for anybody in the public service anymore. We have destroyed public service pensions in the way we have set about them and that is why we are losing gardaí and members of the Defence Forces and why some of the high flyers in the...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...is caught driving over a particular speed or under the influence of drugs or alcohol or uninsured, the vehicle should be taken from them and crushed. It should be sent to the local scrap yard and destroyed because if you do not have a vehicle you cannot drive over the speed limit or under the influence of alcohol or drugs. We should be far less tolerant. If you crush one or two cars in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of the unit and there are no age restrictions or anything. We put the RDF through hell and back. To think that over 1,000 people applied to be called up and only 5% got through. It must be soul-destroying for the association representatives. It is totally unacceptable the Secretary General of the Department has not replied to them. A Secretary General is obliged to make contact and...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...days too long. I ask the Minister to take on board the proposed amendment of Senator Boyhan. If nothing else, this would show that the State is genuinely concerned with trying to make it up to those we absolutely destroyed. We ruined their young lives and took them away from their families. Regarding the point Senator Boyhan made about a child being born into a family, the mother being...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., wearing proudly my remembrance of being a member of the Defence Forces. Thousands of men and women have served this country with distinction and honour. We have a number of rotten apples who destroyed the reputation of those men and those women. I have had colleagues and friends contact me over the last few days who are devastated, their good names and reputations destroyed by the...

Seanad: Teacher Supply and School Places: Statements (15 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...knows, when I was first elected to the Seanad, he and I stood in this House side by side. I congratulate him on his appointment; it is the first time I have met him in his official capacity. We destroyed education when we changed the contract for teachers at secondary and further education levels by substituting hours for jobs. We fought long and hard to change that. Young teachers...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., print, copy or circulate this document to any other third party. Please delete from your email system any emails or attachments where the R[equest] F[or] T[ender] can be found electronically and destroy any hard copies if any have been made. As public representatives, all Members of this House will, from time to time, receive documents and possibly questions which are of concern to...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ..., if he or she thinks it proper to do so, of his or her own volition conduct an oral hearing. (11) Schedule 3 shall have effect for the purposes of an oral hearing referred to in subsection (10). (12) Subject to subsection (9), a person who— (a) withholds, destroys, conceals or refuses to provide any information or statements, records or other documents required for the purposes...

Seanad: Animal Welfare: Motion (14 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...have this information on their website. They should need to have a registered number as a breeder to allow people like me, who want to buy a particular breed, to check out their bona fides. The trouble my family had in trying to get the latest dog we have - the beagle currently destroying my house, but that is another day’s work - and trying to establish the bona fides of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: That does not take account of life-changing injuries in those cases. There could be one death and several people's lives destroyed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Co-operation (28 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...for the Black Sea but we believe they would be suitable for Ukrainian naval crews to maintain their skills and train on. We wonder if they would be of any value. With infrastructure being destroyed throughout, in particular, eastern and southern Ukraine, how is Ukraine's stock of Bailey bridges and the like in order to replace bridges that have been taken out? Does Ukraine have Bailey...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...was being produced there. Senator McDowell has hit the nail on the head by suggesting that we step back from this, see if we can put legislation together and get it through this House as quickly as possible, not destroy a perfectly good generating system and not damage further what is already damaged by trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube. I implore the Minister of State to...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...she never returned. Those who did have children, even though they may have given the child up for adoption, which in most cases they were forced to do, when they came back their reputations were destroyed and not only their reputation, it extended to their family in some cases. As I think about that this evening, I think about the lies that have been told to those who were adopted, to...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...because of addiction. It is the most horrible death. It is not something you will only find in the poorer areas of society. You will find it in every single corner of society and you will see it destroy families. I have seen it destroy some of the finest people I have known in my life. I know a very well-heeled and very well-off couple whose son was addicted. I spoke to them and they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Russia's Foreign Policy and Security in Europe: Engagement with Ambassador of Russia (2 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...their lands, they are arrested when they cross the border. The ambassador says Russian troops are there in a peacekeeping role. Has Russia stood idly and quietly by while whoever is in charge has destroyed buildings and razed entire villages to the ground? Is he aware of that taking place? If he is, who does he blame for it, if it is not a Russian takeover of that particular part of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...as it would be done under European conditions and unless health and safety is met all the way through, we should not manufacture electric cars to travel 30 km in order to see children's lives destroyed. Similarly, I just cannot subscribe to growing crops to provide fuel when many millions of people in this world are starving or living in poverty. I therefore find it difficult to live...

Committee on Public Petitions: Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision Report: Discussion (22 Jun 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...in this country was that everybody who comes here is properly vetted and we had nothing to worry about. Then I saw the process up close where people arrived without documentation. Whether they destroyed it or it was taken from them is irrelevant. They had no documentation so they were put through a process. The process was supposed to involve identifying who they were. However, I...