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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 202. To ask the Minister for Health when approval of capital funding will issue for the development of children’s disability services in County Waterford on land owned by the HSE at St. Otteran’s Hospital, Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25791/19]

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: The only thing on which I agree with the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, is that this was a good debate. The problem is that the people whom this Bill is intended to help do not need debate. They need support. They need the politicians to do their job. A minority of employers are unscrupulous in taking people's tips and using them to supplement very low pay or to bolster their profits....

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I fully accept his point that any decision to delay admission for treatment is not taken lightly. I accept that hospital management do not take those decisions lightly because they recognise, as the Minister of State did in his response, there is an additional trauma for patients who are already traumatised because of the type of surgery they are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Last Friday, at University Hospital Waterford, a number of cancer patients who were preparing for surgery were, unfortunately, sent home because critical care at the hospital had reached capacity and was at crisis point, according to those who work there. I am sure the Minister of State appreciates that when somebody has cancer, it is a traumatic event for the person and his or her family....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: How many of those are from Sinn Féin? I would say a fair number of them are.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: If the Ceann Comhairle looked straight ahead and not just left and right.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I take exception to sitting here week after week, day after day, without speaking.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: The Ceann Comhairle can take whatever exception he wants.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: This is very unfair.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (detail supplied) who received violent threats; the duty of care procedures his Department and the State Examinations Commission have in place for such incidents; the legal avenues he and the commission plan to explore and deploy in relation to the of violent threats received by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all inpatient and outpatient wait times in the south east in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by speciality in tabular form; the wait times in periods (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the conditions attached to the public funding of Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25518/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the conditions attached to the public funding of Donegal, Knock and Kerry airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25519/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for his statement that the future of Waterford Airport is highly uncertain unless private funding is secured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25520/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the difference in the announced matched funding plan for Waterford Airport as announced on 11 June 2019 and the commitment to matched funding in A Programme for a Partnership Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25521/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: 562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the decision has been taken to match public funds with private funds for the extension of the runway at Waterford Airport with the condition that the public funds are only released after the private funds have been secured first; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25522/19]

Organisation of Working Time (Workers’ Rights and Bogus Self-Employment) (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to prohibit the practice of designating employment as self-employment; to bring the Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces, and doctors in training, under the protection of the Act; to limit the race to the bottom on workers’ rights by extending elements of the Act...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I imagine the next periodic report will be dealing with the national broadband plan-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: -----and that precise point of perceived conflicts of interest. It is an obvious one and is not even perceived, in my view. Even if there is a perception, it is a policy decision and is probably something that has to be looked at from that perspective, but we can at least make a recommendation.