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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Redundancy Payments (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: While I understand the brevity of the response and the fact the Minister of State may be reluctant to discuss this further, I must stress that there is nothing stopping the State from doing something of its own volition. There is nothing stopping the Minister for Finance starting discussions with Unite and the former workers. I appeal to the Minister of State to use his good office to...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Redundancy Payments (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: The Minister of State is aware that the former Waterford Crystal workers brought a case to the Commercial Court. The Commercial Court sought advice from the European Court of Justice on a number of aspects of the State's obligations under the European Union 2008 insolvency directive. The European Court of Justice ruled last week and found that the State had failed in its obligations to...

Seanad: Charities Regulation: Motion (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: I commend the Independent Senators for tabling this important motion and welcome the representatives of all of the charities present. I am a realist and a pragmatist. I do not believe we will ever reach Utopia, but I do believe the State has abdicated its responsibilities in recent times in ensuring people have the required levels of protection and that some of the responsibility for the...

Seanad: Charities Regulation: Motion (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: I commend Senator Mary Ann O'Brien and the Independent Senators for again tabling a motion on this issue. It is only a short number of weeks since we had a similar debate in the House. The Senators who tabled the motion might recall that at the time my party and I tabled an amendment to their substantive motion. At their urging, we decided not to press the amendment because I understood...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nessa Childers, MEP (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for being here.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nessa Childers, MEP (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: I should have said MEP, or Deputy, which I think is the right term. My apologies for that. We are used to having a Minister sitting in the chair in which Ms Childers is sitting. I know she has been vocally opposed to many policies coming from Europe and even from this State in recent times, which is to be welcomed. The topic she is here to discuss is the challenges for transparency in...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

David Cullinane: Today is international workers’ day and this year is the centenary of the 1913 Lock-out. On several occasions I have called for a debate on workers’ rights, not just to mark the centenary but to address the many issues which affect working people in respect of their pay and pensions. Over the past several years we have seen incidents of workers being locked out of their jobs...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Ports Development (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Like myself.

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Ports Development (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Is there white smoke?

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Ports Development (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The figure he quoted for the fall in the Port of Waterford's share of the lift-on lift-off market from 20% in 2001 to 5% in 2012 is very stark. It is a remarkable drop. There have been independent and in-house reviews of the port which will make recommendations. There will be a need for the Government to support development at the ports at...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Ports Development (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am looking for an update from the Government on what plans it has to upgrade development at the ports at Rosslare Europort and Waterford. It is coincidental that today we heard a very positive announcement regarding the building of a state-of-the-art facility by Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Limited at Belview, which is around the Port of...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome a fellow Munster man, Mr. Seán Kelly, as I am from Waterford. I agree with much of what Senator Sean D. Barrett said on the lethargic approach of the European Union to a range of issues since the economic crisis. We have seen inconsistences in its approach to banking. We in Ireland were forced not to burn the bondholders but Cyprus was forced to burn the bondholders as well...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I think the Deputy means far right.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Be quiet.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I warmly welcome the major jobs announcement for Waterford and the south east, which has just been announced. Glanbia Ingredients Ireland is to build a state-of-the-art facility in Belview on the Waterford-Kilkenny border. The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister said 1,600 jobs will be created in the south-east region. There will be 450 construction jobs and 1,600 part-time and...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: In 2009 the then workers at Waterford Crystal received the news that they were going to lose their jobs because the company was insolvent. Hundreds of jobs were eventually lost. The former workers also discovered, to their horror, that the vast majority of their pensions were gone. This was because the company pension scheme was insolvent. Most of them received between 18% and 28% of...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: The Irish people have endured a great deal of pain in recent years. Although they have suffered under austerity and all the tough and gruelling budgets of the past five to six years, they have done so against a backdrop of €90 billion of taxpayers' money going into the banks in some form, shape or fashion. More than €30 billion of the money that went into the banks went to...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I do not believe it is about expressing confidence in the bank. This is about the State showing dissatisfaction with the enormous levels of salary that are still being paid to people who are part of the problem. They were part of it in the first place and remain so. This is a person who showed he was inflexible and intransigent when he attended an Oireachtas committee. He showed the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: -----to stand up for the people of this State. It is shocking that the Minister for Finance will not use his vote, the 15% shareholding which belongs to the people of this State, and stand up for the majority of people in this State who will not agree with the huge salary that will be signed off on today by the banks. Although I agree it is important that ordinary shareholders show...