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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...degree some are running to catch up. From this point of view, as a former trade union representative I am really concerned. The idea of partnership is massive. As Ms King knows I worked with the TUI. We had chief executive officers who worked in partnership with the union and we had chief executive officers who did not. Where a chief executive officer worked in partnership there was a...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...colleague Senator Cummins made the point that he came from an education background; so too did I. I travelled the length and breadth of the country as president of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI, and I learned how advanced children are from the age of 13 or 14. I am not afraid of 16-year-olds going into a polling booth and voting. I watched my kids growing up and when they started...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...first and foremost of members of local authorities. When I look at this particular section I wonder how the Irish Federation of University Teachers, IFUT, and the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, which are the two trade unions representing third level staff, feel about students being given a priority here and trade unions being ignored in this section, from what I can see. Maybe I am...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...reference to his or her board, with respect to sanctions. I made the point, as a former president of a trade union, that there should be provision to have academic representation from IFUT or the TUI. It works very well on the Teaching Council and I do not see any reason it would not work on this authority. I have every faith in the Minister. I have supported him in public on many of...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: .... That is the way I feel about it. With respect to the Minister’s comment on us representing pressure groups or groups with specific interests, I have not been contacted by either IFUT or the TUI. It is in my DNA to question that. I have had two amendments provided to me by the Irish Universities Association, which thought it had a deal with the Minister on those two amendments,...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...proper governance in place.At the end of the day, even pressure groups that contact us are citizens with a specific interest; I will accept that. I will put on the record today that I attended the TUI conference where the Minister was hailed as a hero by many; he really impressed them all. I hope they will still be as impressed when this Bill passes. My final point is that it is within...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the community a stick to beat us with, insofar as we are taking away the autonomy of Trinity College Dublin. I recall that back in the days when I was president of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, we were moving towards the establishment of the technical universities. At that time, I could see the HEA casting its eye over the established National Colleges of Ireland, Trinity College...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...into the neutral camp but certainly the debate must take place. The people are entitled to hear that debate take place. I am mindful of a period when I was president of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, and I made a statement; one of my executive members asked me who the hell gave me permission to say what I said. This House is the House that makes decisions about how we progress the...

Seanad: Councillors' Pay: Motion (22 Feb 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: .... It is totally unacceptable that we would do that in this day and age. Ms Donna Sheridan, a Fine Gael councillor and a great friend of mine from my teaching days in the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, pointed out to me that when she attends a council meeting she must take annual leave because she cannot get time off. That is unacceptable. She serves the public, as do many teachers,...

Seanad: Technological Universities Agenda: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is very welcome to the House. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is world-renowned. Nobody ever had to call it a university. I was president of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, when we started the technological university drive. I was not convinced. I am still not convinced we need to refer to these institutions as universities. The previous speaker, Senator Byrne,...

Seanad: Leaving Certificate 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...leaving certificate students, and students at all levels, throughout the lockdown and who marked them fairly. The Minister will recall during my time as president of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, there was extreme resistance to getting involved in grading students in any way so our teachers have really gone a long way to support the system. I wish to take this opportunity to thank...

Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...75% of his or her salary. I applaud organisations like SIPTU, Forfás, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, the Garda Representative Association, GRA, the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, and the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO - I could go on. All of these unions have done what the State could not. They...

Seanad: Education: Statements (28 Jul 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...she will find 1,080 teachers when she goes to the marketplace, given the gross inequality that has existed in the pay system. We have been arguing about this since 2012 when I was president of the TUI, but no one has taken notice. We have lost the best and brightest of our educators to places like Dubai, London, Birmingham and Manchester. This morning, I heard that we were expecting...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...school in Wicklow up and running, only to be told St. Andrew's is not in the school's catchment area. Indeed, I represented East Glendalough school in my time in the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI. In 2011, the school began a campaign to build a school such as East Glendalough school in Bray, but was told it could only bid for the proposed school in Greystones. The school was initially...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...a week have been put together in a single class. Principals have been amalgamating the hours so that they can be used elsewhere for management purposes and so on. The Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI, my former union, spent much time at its conference complaining about the lack of resources and management structures in schools. The Cork parents have documentary evidence with names,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: The quorum is a legitimate tool used in parliaments. It was used during my time as president of the TUI in order to ensure that something which is totally-----

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Internet connection and an e-learning platform for a college of further education. Throughout my entire time doing that, from 1995 until I became the president of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, I fought for uncensored, free access to all platforms for my students. I hold the right to free speech and free engagement as a dear and cherished thing to which we should all have access....

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...countries and countries that are advancing are moving from terrestrial to Wi-Fi systems. I am interested in views on that. I compliment the Department, which has done an excellent job. My background is the Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI. When we started to develop technological universities, I was deeply concerned that we were throwing out the child with the bath water....

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...income poverty and I remember that my own net salary fell by €1,000. Substantial sums were taken from public servants. In the 2012 Lansdowne Road agreement negotiations, I, as president of the TUI, was told that all of the low hanging fruit was gone, that these were hard times so we all had to put our shoulder to the wheel and that we were all in it together. I have since...

Seanad: Report on Credit Union Sector: Statements (9 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of them are capable of doing an awful lot more. It is about providing them with the wherewithal to expand. I am thinking, in particular, of the credit unions of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI, in which I was involved, the Association of Secondary School Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO....