Senator Gerard Craughwell - speech from 13 Jul 2022

Go raibh maith agat te dala skair, look, Minister thank you for coming to the House today. Look at the very outset my colleague has made the point that some of us have received emails because we agreed to stage two of the bill in the vote that was called on stage two of the bill. No amendment could be moved at that stage and unfortunately there are people playing politics with this which is a devastating situation for families all over the country. And I think that what we want to see is we want to see a resolution of this problem as quickly as possible and playing politics with it is certainly not going to resolve the issue for anybody and it might get you favourable emails because you were able to point the finger at those of us who voted to move from stage two to the committee stage. But it doesn't do the families on the ground any good whatsoever to use this as some sort of a football and I deeply resent it because all of us... Let's just stick to the amendments as best as we can. Second stage speech with jurors back. Just let me finish off. At the end of the day what we want is we want to see the families compensated as best we can. So I'm not going to say a whole lot more. The amendment we put down stands for itself. I'd ask the Minister to accept it and I'm willing to listen to his response. Thank you. Anyone else? No, Senator Byrne. Thank you. Chief Después… Chieftle North. Chief Cara Ramos. Thank you. Chief. Director. Director. Bedi.