Results 41-60 of 238 for going forward speaker:David Cullinane

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (2 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: ...have been here, where we have come back to see an extension of the emergency powers. From the outset I will say that I will oppose the motion, as I have previous motions the Minister has brought forward. I say this, and I hope the Minister accepts it, not because I oppose continuing levels of public health measures. In fact, I support them. I support the wearing of face masks, testing...

Broadcasting (Amendment) (Protection of Journalism) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Oct 2021)

David Cullinane: ...also thank the Members who spoke in support of the Bill. Drafting legislation is complex. We have to call a spade a spade here because we have all been in this position. We have not yet been in government and, hopefully, at some point we will be. We certainly have been in opposition as has the Minister. Others have been in government and in opposition. When we are in opposition we...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

David Cullinane: ...Comhairle. First, I want to say that it is important for us to reflect on what we have achieved over the past 20 months and on the difficult and traumatic experience that society and people have gone through. It is hard to believe that the first case of Covid-19 was reported 20 months ago. It has been more than 19 months since the first restrictions were imposed. We all remember that...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: Like the previous speaker, I will be opposing the Bill. I suspect the Government has the numbers to get it through, however. If the Bill is to be passed, the two proposed amendments would be better than the Minister's proposal to have a sunset clause of 9 October which could then be extended further. I support the two amendments and I look forward to the proposers of these amendments...

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: I want hospitality opened. I want it opened safely, as quickly as possible and for everybody. There is something rotten at the core of the message we got from the Tánaiste's contribution. There is something very unfair about it given that over the past year, the Opposition in this State and in this House has been very supportive of public health measures. I would say to the...

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: ...a time when emergency legislation is being rammed through the Dáil today and will be rammed through the Seanad tomorrow. What we have seen in recent weeks is absolutely unacceptable. Two weeks ago, the people of Ireland were expecting a plan from the Taoiseach. The hospitality sector was expecting a plan. The Taoiseach took to a podium and essentially said that he was sorry, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: ...a couple of days after those interventions by the Tánaiste to say that, from its perspective, that it had what it felt there was an agreement with the Department that the lease option was the way forward. It also indicated that there was no discussion between the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group and the Department with regard to the purchasing of the site and yet we had the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: It is the case that overcrowding is becoming a problem in hospitals again. That was always going to be the case as we came out of a very difficult time for those who work on the front line. I acknowledge that, as the Minister said, it a has been a very difficult year for those on the front line because of Covid on the one hand, which led to the cancellation of much non-essential healthcare...

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: ...get information now - or at least were not able to do so up to last week - because of the cyberattack, but the most recent information I have is that five claims were lodged. Maybe that number has gone up slightly. I do not know. That number suggests that women are voting with their feet and saying to the Minister loudly and clearly that there are problems with this tribunal and that...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: ...out of the vaccine. I welcome the changes that have been made for those in the 18 to 34 age bracket and that vaccines will be made available for them through pharmacists from Monday next. That is going to be important. We must make sure that the over-60s are vaccinated as quickly as possible. I got my second dose of the Moderna vaccine yesterday, but I know family and friends who are...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: ...questions. It is not a productive use of anyone's time for Members to stand up and make long statements when people are asking us questions they want us to put to the Minister but we are not then going to get a response. I presume the Minister will say that he will forward such responses to us but it always has been much better to have an interaction, to go over and back and to get...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

David Cullinane: ...virus and a very dangerous pandemic, we needed to have public health measures and public health interventions. There has been a lot of support from the Opposition in regard not to supporting the Government but to supporting public health measures that were necessary to ensure our health services were not overwhelmed and we could keep people safe and, in reality, to keep them alive,...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

David Cullinane: First, I wish to thank the Independents who have brought forward this motion. I wish to commend the motion and its three main demands, namely, that there must be an immediate step change in the implementation of the national maternity strategy, including a comprehensive, time-bound, fully resourced implementation plan for full implementation by 2026; that immediate action is taken on the...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

David Cullinane: ...Opposition are not only heard but are taken into account in the context of the Bill. The days of giving the Minister or anybody else a blank cheque to make responses of the nature envisaged are long gone. If the Minister was in my position, I imagine that he would argue the same. When one looks across the political spectrum in different parts of Europe, by and large, the support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

David Cullinane: ...20 second contribution. I thank Mr. Herrick and the other witnesses for their responses. I agree with everything he said. He has been very reasonable with respect to the asks the ICCL has put forward. If the Government or the Minister do accept any of the amendments that look for a review by the Department of the effectiveness of the measures, as part of the Bill that extends the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: ...time soon. However, there may come a need to scale back these measures. In terms of the overall expenditure, is it the Minister's intention to keep that figure of €22 billion as the baseline figure going forward into budget 2022?

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: First, I commend the Labour Party on bringing forward this motion. I join the Minister in extending my solidarity to all the families of those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 in recent months and especially in the past month, when the number of deaths has been very high. There is no doubt whatever that we need a change in approach. Sinn Féin supports a maximum suppression...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit and Teachta Paul Murphy for bringing forward this motion which is very important. It is an issue many of us have been campaigning on for a number of months. I have had numerous engagements with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and have received thousands of emails from nurses and midwives on a range of issues over the past number of...