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

Gerard Craughwell: At the outset, I record my sympathy to the family of Councillor Pat Hynes in Galway, who sadly passed away this morning. Pat is the uncle of Geraldine Donohue, who works here with Senator Boyhan. I would also like to remember Corporal Tadhg Quinn, one of the Jadotville heroes denied a medal, who passed away today. Yesterday, there was an attack on me in the House about having my photograph...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: I and, I am sure, all members of my group join others in expressing sympathy to the Connor family. It is a tragedy to lose somebody in a road traffic accident. Two and a half years ago, after the cyberattack on the HSE, I started to involve myself in matters cyber. Initially, I worked with Louth and Meath ETB. That spread out to the University of Galway, Munster Technological University...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...to do away with that. One might ask why the Minister would do that. He has done it already because DFRs were amended as a result of the Jadotville inquiry to provide for the award of a medal to Commandant Pat Quinlan by those who did not see the action and it eliminated the time. Why do we not eliminate it for everybody? These men travelled from Galway today to meet people here to...

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

Gerard Craughwell: ...further education and training sectors, as well as indigenous software developers in cybersecurity. One of the key asks which came from that engagement was from the chairman of Cyber Ireland, Mr. Pat Larkin. Mr. Larkin looked for the State to ring-fence €1 billion for cyber training and education. It was a rather limited ask, given the seriousness of the damage which can be done...

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

Gerard Craughwell: Pat Larkin.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...to this House at the appropriate time when we can continue this debate.” Sometime after that, the Minister signed a Defence Forces regulation which provided for the award of a medal to Commandant Pat Quinlan, with which nobody would disagree. That regulation did away with the requirement for the person making the recommendation to actually witness the action and did away with the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...what had taken place in order to make a recommendation for a military honour or a medal. It also lifted the time bar. The independent review group specifically deals with one person, the late Commandant Pat Quinlan, a man deserving of a military medal for gallantry. I believe that most of us agree with that. However, the last surviving commissioned officer, retired Captain Noel Carey,...

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

Gerard Craughwell: I and all Members of the Independent Group join in offering sympathies to Ms Doody. I have lost siblings and it is very difficult to live with. My heart goes out to her and I ask that this be conveyed to her. On 29 May 1962, the LÉ Clíona, while participating in an annual exercise south of Roche's Point in County Cork and firing patterns of depth charges, suffered a premature...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I was really comfortable in my mind as to what I wanted to say until Deputy Higgins came in. She has now totally thrown my mind somewhere else. There is much in what Deputy Pat Buckley is saying in this particular case. I would see no difficulty whatsoever in this committee taking the lead on it and by all means inviting in the Committee on Health as well. It is one of those rare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...day long and I would do that with the Minister quite happily but that was an industry that was coming to Athenry and it was lost and that created bad blood. There was a very interesting piece on Pat Kenny's show yesterday about electric vehicle charging points around the country. Dungarvan has one and they were talking about the scenic routes around the Waterford coastline, which is very...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the fact that the long battle of the Miami Showband came to a conclusion yesterday.I listened to an interview this morning on "The Pat Kenny Show" with one of the members of the band. In many ways, I am sorry that the case did not go to a full hearing to allow us to get to the bottom of exactly what was involved. There is no doubt that most of us who work a uniform on either side...

Seanad: Report of Independent Review Group Jadotville: Statements (15 Jul 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., no invitation was issued to me or to any Senator that I know of, to engage with the review group. The recommendation of the posthumous award of distinguished service medal, DSM, to Commandant Pat Quinlan, this charismatic and brave commander of 'A' Company 35 Infantry Battalion in the Congo, is noteworthy. Incredibly, the group report does not agree with the award of medals recommended...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of people, which, I might say, is misguided. Does the Minister of State believe that we should increase the budget for the national cybersecruity to the €50 million that was projected by Mr. Pat Larkin yesterday? I circulated a paper last night which the Minister of State will have received. Every Member of the Houses of the Oireachtas received a copy of a paper written by Mr....

Seanad: Living with Covid-19: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...70 and 75 years? How soon can old codgers like me with underlying conditions expect their vaccine? That is the kind of information we need. I listened to the Chief Medical Officer this morning. Pat Kenny has been on about antigen testing and Professor Luke O'Neill has been on about this for months. Today I heard there is a report on the Minister's desk now. What are we doing with a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...no hierarchy in murder. All were needless, all were brutal. Many victims were simply people going about their daily business, just like other Members and I do on a daily basis. Was the murder of Pat Finucane in 1989 any more terrible than the senseless killing of Jean McConville in 1972? Did the Ballymurphy killings by the Parachute Regiment justify the Narrow Water killings by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...that No. 24, motion 8, on the Order Paper be taken before No. 1. I join colleagues in expressing my deep disappointment with respect to the Finucane murder. It is important to remember that Pat Finucane was the highest profile person killed in Northern Ireland through collusion but there were hundreds of others, and a truth commission in Northern Ireland is needed to allow the purging of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Establishment of an Independent Public Inquiry into the Murder of Pat Finucane: Motion (26 Nov 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...by official forces, the people who should have been protecting both sides of the community. Official forces sided, as it suited them, with different sides, especially when it came to the murder of Pat Finucane. It was a heinous thing to do. All I can do is express my deepest sympathy to John Finucane and his family. I assure him that what little influence I have I will use in any way I...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Military Service at Jadotville in 1961: Statements (11 Nov 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Michael Tighe; Private Daniel Molloy; Private John Nicell; Private Jim Feery; Private Noel Stanley; Private Michael Brennan; Private Gerard Hennely; Private Matt Quinlan; Private Michael Galvin; and Private Patrick McCarton. Those are recommendations. I fully support what the Minister is trying to do but this is a military matter, not a political matter. It is up to the military...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...do? We hid them away. We called them cowards and would not allow their names to be mentioned. I want to mention John Gorman, the man who drove this for years on his own. Leo Quinlan, the son of Pat Quinlan, also drove it. If we are talking about the most loyal citizens of the State, we have to treat them as loyal citizens. When they are nominated for an award for gallantry, we should...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the Medal of Honor. We are a begrudging, mean nation in the way we treat members of the Defence Forces. The Leader has supported the men of Jadotville, from where the commander, Commandant Pat Quinlan, brought 155 men home alive after a battle against 3,000. He has not so much as found his name on a citation. He was entitled to the highest military honours, as were the 168 others who...