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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the capitation fee. When the capitation fee is cut, the funding has be replaced by someone. Who will it be? It will be parents. The voluntary contribution, as it is known, is no more voluntary than the dogs in the street. Cutting capitation fees has left principals with a massive job to do in trying to cover costs in their schools. We also saw funding for 205 special education...

Seanad: The Political Situation in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...is time we looked at the Good Friday Agreement again and that the veto that Senator Martin was talking about needs to be examined to see where we will go. It is just wrong that the tail is wagging the dog and that needs to stop. On the legacy legislation, it is no secret in this House that I am veteran of two military organisations, the Defence Forces and the Royal Irish Rangers. As a...

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Jan 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...precautions in our own homes. In recent months, I have had to install CCTV in my home, both front and back. I have had to take out a back gate and put in a stronger one. Thankfully, I have a dog who makes lots of noise when anybody comes around. All of us in this profession travel and there are times when we go away and we wonder whether our family is safe. My son, daughter and wife...

Seanad: Animal Welfare: Motion (14 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...people bring their grandchildren to the zoo and presume these animals are looked after better than any animals in the world, I am totally devastated. My main point is about canine welfare. I have kept dogs all my life. I kept cocker spaniels for years, then I moved on to Labradors and now finally to beagles. I moved away from cocker spaniels because of a condition known as cocker rage....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...are contacting me from the nationalist and unionist sides of society in Northern Ireland because they are deeply upset by the actions of the DUP. The party has turned out now to be the tail that wags the dog, and not just in Northern Ireland but right across the UK. It is simply not good enough that a minority group is able to stifle democracy in Northern Ireland. People there are...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...this is something that only happens over there with the poor people. It is not; it happens everywhere. In every single street, every single household either has 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...

Committee on Public Petitions: Direct Provision Policy and Related Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Nov 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...we house anybody else but we forget that so many of us were migrants. I was one myself back in the 1960s and we forget what it was like to arrive in London and see signs stating, “No Irish, no dogs” and things like that. Could we do an advertising campaign or something like that to show the human side of the people the Department is dealing with every day. The Department...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I join with Senator Boylan on the issue of animals. My dog of 11 years died recently and I wanted to replace him. As one cannot find pups in the various rescue centres at the moment, I decided to search online and discovered that puppies are being sold for up to €3,000 each. Let us think about the outrageous amount of money that can be earned from one litter of pups. There also are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...is a well-accomplished individual. His appointment as an ambassador came before that Cabinet meeting as well. The allegation before this committee and in the public domain is that this country is dogged with jobs for the boys. Did Mr. Fraser go through a process whereby he applied and was interviewed by the Top-Level Appointments Committee for his post as ambassador? It seems to me...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...became aware of the likelihood that a local hotel was about to start housing refugees, migrants or whatever you want to call them. I went to London in the 1960s, a time of "No Irish, no blacks, no dogs", and perhaps the same sort of thing has happened here. Everybody I have ever heard speak publicly about direct provision has said his or her community would be willing to accept five, ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank Professor Ferguson for being here today. The scientific dogs in the street have been screaming about antigen testing for some time. Noted broadcasters have been screaming about it. We have raised it in this committee and I have raised it in the Seanad. There has been antigen testing throughout Europe for several months. There has to be a gate blocker; there must be somebody here...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...it has made in the lifetime of the current Dáil. I wish to compliment the Minister, Deputy Flanagan. He is a man of honour and a man of his word. It is clear that the tail that is wagging the dog had its own way and, as a man of honour, the Minister decided to stand over the commitment given to the tail. As I warned him on Second Stage and at every opportunity since, this flawed...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: -----in Stepaside grinning from ear to ear, knowing he got away scot free. The Minister is carrying the can for what was described not so long ago as a dog's dinner. We can justify the decontamination period but three years is perfectly fine.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Taoiseach in the use of the guillotine. He is a democrat and I do not believe he would go against democratic principles on his own initiative. That makes me wonder what is going on. I have kept dogs for 40 years and have yet to see a case in which the tail wags the dog, but I think I have arrived at that situation today. Will the Leader do the honourable thing and ensure the Judicial...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...detail with this "Public Appointments Service". We are discussing a new, open and transparent way of appointing judges but there is something at the beginning of the Bill that lends itself to the "dog's dinner" description the Attorney General gave. A line in the Bill refers to the "Public Appointments Service", but we have no earthly idea what that is or how it is composed. Is this a...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Bill that the Government is trying to ram through this House against the wishes not just of the Members of the House but so many people in the public domain who have been saying that this Bill is a dog's dinner not a plate of oysters.Let us take our time-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...in his support for the Bill. I am not so sure he is convinced about the Bill at all. We shall see as it progresses through the House. His Attorney General has referred to the Bill as a dog's dinner, which is rather sad. There has been much talk here about the Minister, Deputy Ross. Deputy Ross, as far as I am concerned, has nothing to do with this. This is the Minister for Justice...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Perhaps he did, but that is not the point. We are talking about passing legislation to appoint people to the courts of our land. This is the most important legislation. A dog's dinner has been made of it since the day it started. I believe it is wrong and disingenuous of us to go any further. I ask the Deputy Leader, who is in the Chamber, to adjourn the House until the Order of Business...

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...them. Who wrote the Government's amendment? Who wrote that the local property tax is fair and equitable? Were they trying to pull a fast one? It is hilarious to say it is fair and equitable. My poor old semi-detached house, indeed my dog's kennel, has a higher property tax rating than some of my relations' houses down the country. When the Minister of State does the review he should...

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...for collecting it so people cannot evade it. For its own sake the Government should take a long, hard look at it. Incidentally, with regard to bringing back the guy who designed it, he made a dog's dinner of it so I would find somebody else to conduct the review.