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Order of Business (25 May 2016)

David Cullinane: I ask the Taoiseach if there is any intention on the Government's part to amend the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015, which was the collective bargaining Act? It does not allow for trade union recognition. It is a form of yellow-pack collective bargaining. To mention the Tesco dispute, about which the Taoiseach responded earlier, one of the problems the Mandate trade union...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: I commend this motion to the Minister, Fianna Fáil and to all the Independents in the Chamber and those who are not. I thank all those Deputies who are not members of Sinn Féin who signed their names to this motion. I commend also those from communities in the four corners of Ireland who came out in their tens of thousands on more than one occasion to protest against Irish Water...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: Fianna Fáil Deputies love heckling and interrupting. They feel the pressure and do not like when they are being confronted with the facts.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: They should take their medicine and sit and listen. If Deputy Kelleher sits there and listens for a second, he might learn something. This is what is in the amendment tabled by the Government today. Fianna Fáil is part of this temporary little arrangement with Fine Gael and the Independents who signed up to this as well. It states "that Irish Water will be retained as a single...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: -----which has been signed by several other Deputies. He has that choice but he is not taking it because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are wedded to water charges and I do not trust any of them on this issue. Fianna Fáil brought in water charges in 2010, set up Irish Water and planned to install water meters and said this was a confidence building structural reform measure. It was...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: Rather than accept that it got it wrong, the Government brings in a long amendment which reads as a massive vote of confidence in Irish Water. How dare it when that was not the will of the people. Fine Gael has not learned anything and it was not listening. I shared many platforms with some Independent Deputies, in Waterford and in Dublin, who were part of the Right2Water campaign. They...

Order of Business (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: Is it the intention of the Government to reinstate the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill? The Minister for Justice and Equality said it was the most comprehensive and wide-ranging sexual offences Bill to be introduced in almost a decade. Is it also the intention of the Government to hold a referendum on repealing the eighth amendment? If that is the policy of the Government, when will the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: GDP-GNP Levels (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the gross fixed capital formation for investment in aircraft for leasing and intangibles; for core investment excluding investment in aircraft for leasing and intangibles; for public investment at market prices; the level of gross fixed capital formation in total as a percentage of gross domestic product, GDP; the level of gross fixed capital formation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of institutes of technology which are running a deficit in tabular form. [11227/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Expenditure (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of its budget that Waterford Institute of Technology spends on salaries. [11228/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Expenditure (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of Public Service Stability Agreement 2013-2016 (Lansdowne Road agreement) on the budget of Waterford Institute of Technology. [11229/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Expenditure (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of Public Service Stability Agreement 2013-2016 (Lansdowne Road agreement) to Waterford Institute of Technology; and if he will meet this cost through an increased budget. [11230/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the staff retention levels in Waterford Institute of Technology; his plans and timescale for completing the engineering block on its grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 362. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 to 2013 that are to be unwound or are in the process of being unwound under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2013 to 2016, the Lansdowne Road agreement. [11224/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full list of measures in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 to 2013 that need to be unwound outside of those under the process of being unwound under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2013 to 2016, the Lansdowne Road agreement, to bring public sector pay grades and conditions to a pre-Financial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 364. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of implementing the Public Service Stability Agreement 2013 to 2016, the Lansdowne Road agreement. [11226/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of additional unpaid hours which have been provided by civil and public servants under all public sector collective agreements since 2009; the cost of paying workers for these hours; the cost of bringing all post-2011 Civil Service and public service entrants to pre-2011 pay grades; the details of the €2.2 billion in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will end the pay inequality to which teachers who qualified after 2011 have been subject for the past five years; when he will establish the public service pay commission; in the absence of pay equality, to outline the justification for pay inequality having regard to the principle of equal pay for equal work; when he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (24 May 2016)

David Cullinane: 483. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the three-out-one-in hiring rule adopted by hospital groups within the Health Service Executive in December 2015, as reported in The Irish Times on 22 April 2016; the criteria for this hiring rule and the grades and sections of the hospital groups within the Health Service Executive that are subject to this rule; the number of staff lost to the...