Results 1-20 of 27,291 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: The people I give credit to for delivering enhanced cardiac services for Waterford are the people of Waterford, who several times took to the streets in their thousands and had to force this Government, kicking and screaming, to deliver those services.
- Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: Simon Harris's record as a Minister and a leader is not one of competence, vision or progress. When I think of Simon Harris, I think of broken promises to children with scoliosis and spina bifida, compounded by false hope and children left in pain. Under Simon Harris's watch, children with chronic conditions and disabilities have been failed and let down time and again. Under Simon Harris'...
- Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I raise with the Taoiseach again investment for Waterford Airport. It is something I have raised with him dozens of times. The airport's management has always made well-researched, very detailed propositions to Government on the need for the runway extension. Is the Taoiseach aware of a new consortium or investor that is prepared to put €30 million, it seems, on the table? Has he...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: The Minister for Transport.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: What is going on in the area of health? We are 24 hours on from the budget and it is impossible to know where any of the money announced in it will be spent. What is clear is that the vast majority of the additional funding announced yesterday for health is for existing levels of service. I spoke with senior officials in the Department of Health. They informed me that this is down to the...
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: -----and shame on the Government for not providing that detail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with page 11 of the briefing document Mr. Healy submitted. He says it is acknowledged that the purple or red calls, which fall outside the targets that are set, can see patients waiting for more than two hours for an emergency service response. Obviously, those are the ones that are most problematic for us and I imagine for patients and service users...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I have very limited time and I do not want to go too deep into this. I am just making the point that this is an example of what is being relayed to me. Even in Mr. Healy's own report, he acknowledges that, unfortunately, there are patients waiting two hours or more in some circumstances. These are emergency calls. There needs to be a focus on how we deploy personnel and how that is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: No, I am asking Mr. Morton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: That is not what I asked. I asked if there were any findings against any senior HR personnel to date.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Healy but we have very limited time. These were very senior HR officials within the NAS. I respect the fact that there is an investigation ongoing but manipulating data, boasting about it, and making derogatory comments about other staff members is absolutely unacceptable and shocking. I will leave it there because I want to get to another issue but I hope that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. Morton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. Morton if he is in receipt of that allowance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I would because he is a public servant.