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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: The professor from the United States may answer as well but perhaps Mr. Deane could comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Would Dr. Deane's answer be that it is not as viable today as it may have been in 2006 and 2008?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I have one final question for our guests. I will put my cards on the table. I think this project is of a different time. Unfortunately, I do not see it as viable. I note there is a strong lobby and an understandably strong view within the local community and among those who live close to the Shannon Estuary who want to see this development. What would the guests say to those communities...

Financial Resolution No. 6: Capital Gains Tax - Exit Tax (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Sinn Féin also supports Financial Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7. Financial Resolution No. 6, which is the exit tax amendment, includes a highly technical language change to be included in the exit tax stipulations. It is important that this is looked at in more detail in the finance Bill. Deputy Pearse Doherty certainly wants this to happen. There does appear to be a tightening to clarify...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Financial Resolution No. 3 proposes a technical change to update the year on which the calculation of the bank levy is based. This measure's outworking is that the banks will continue paying the same amount and the State will receive the same revenue. We in Sinn Féin wanted the levy increased and the corporate tax breaks that banks get done away with because we believe that they should...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Sinn Féin will support Financial Resolution No. 1 but it cannot support Financial Resolution No. 2, which proposes an increase in the rate of carbon tax. We oppose the latter for the reason the Minister for Finance and his officials provided at joint committee hearings to the effect that the tax is regressive. It is not going to reduce carbon emissions. We have carbon taxes in the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Sinn Féin puts workers and families first. That is our main focus and was so in the alternative budget we put forward last week. I am sure the Minister will have seen many of the proposals we made. This Dáil has time and again debated the crises in health and housing. There have been hundreds of hours of debate on these issues. Even the Government has accepted there is a...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his assistance in ensuring that the debate was held, and the Business Committee and the Government for scheduling it. As the Minister will be aware, Sinn Féin is fully opposed to fracking, which has been our position for years. It lines the pockets of multinational corporations while contaminating the ground and drinking water, threatening public health...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Deputy Ferris is not in the Chamber and he can speak for himself. I am speaking for Sinn Féin and we have one voice on the issue, namely, that fracking is an environmental disaster. All our policy in the area is evolving. The science is clear and the debate is moving on. One has to be guided by the science on the matter. We also have to be consistent. If we say on the one hand that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I want to raise a separate issue concerning the follow-up correspondence from Maynooth. It is to do with what it calls occasional staff and staff on contracts. The volume of people on contracts at the university is high. The university stated in its cover note that it does not engage persons on zero-hour contracts. That is true. However, there are if-and-when contracts or what it calls...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: That is a problem.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I am not going to go over the history of the matte because most people here already know it. We had lengthy discussions on this with the Department in the past. We had similar discussions with the HEA when it became obvious that it was not able to publish the report it had done because it was outside its remit. It looked like the Minister, through the appointment of a special investigator...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Three years have passed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I ask the Chairman to bear in mind that a report from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which is confined to examining these matters from a value for money perspective, focused on the relationship between State funding and the company that was spun out. It looked at a very limited aspect of this matter. As we know, the HEA report looked in more detail at other issues...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: We should write to the Department to thank it for its letter. However, if they have follow-up correspondence and documentation in which concerns regarding management of conflicts of interest are raised, they have an obligation to pursue the matter further.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: We should ask if they have examined the possibility of appointing a special investigator. When they were here, they indicated that was one of the options they were considering.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Bill for its content but also because it provides an opportunity to have a wider discussion on public broadcasting. The Minister has taken the opportunity, as has Deputy Dooley, to set out many of the challenges we face. There is no secret that we have to face what some would describe as a "crisis" and others a "challenge" in public broadcasting. This plays out in many ways...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputy Martin Kenny. I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate. It is telling that approximately 30 seconds into his contribution, the Minister mentioned carbon taxes and carbon pricing. It is regrettable that, from the Government's perspective and from that of others in political circles, the whole debate on climate action is framed around carbon tax...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I welcome the debate. It is obvious from all the contributions by Members of all parties and none that there is universal acceptance that something needs to be done. There is goodwill on this issue across the House and it is the Minister's job to translate that goodwill into action. I heard the Minister respond to this issue during Questions on Promised Legislation earlier in the week....