Senator Gerard Craughwell- speech from 5 Apr 2022
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Transcript
Thank you. Yesterday I was asked to support Senator Macdule and Senator Boyan on the Russian Ambassador and I rejected it because I thought the Ambassador should be here as the embodiment of Russia. I have changed my opinion because I have been contacted by a number of people, some of them in the diplomatic corps who say that the Ambassador should not be here, he would take away from the event, he would become the focus of attention rather than the actual issues. So I will be supporting that amendment today with Senator Macdule and Senator Boyan. Very quickly, the Junior Minister for Transport called on the Defence Forces to be put into Dublin Airport to solve the security problem. Are the Defence Forces the only people in this country who can stop floods, stop fires, fill every goddamn gap there is any time there is a bit of a problem, throw the Defence Forces at it? The poorest paid people, the most abused and lacking in respect in this country. It has to stop. Thank you.