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Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: It is absolutely disgraceful, with respect, that the Sinn Féin Party is being given one and a half minutes to discuss a Bill as important as this. The Leader should hang his head in shame, the Minister should hang his head in shame and Senators in the House who support this situation should hang their heads in shame.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: We are being asked to take a decision on one of the most important Bills to come into this House in the lifetime of the Seanad. As a party, we are being given one minute and 30 seconds to state our case. It is a disgrace. Senators should be ashamed of themselves.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: When he came into the House, the Minister questioned whether any Senator could give an example of a company that announced it would liquidate over a medium timeframe. Can the Minister give me an example of Bills that have been rammed through the Oireachtas at 4.30 a.m. without proper scrutiny and without amendment? Can he give me an example of that? No he cannot because it is not how we do...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: What they do now is walk into this House and the Dáil and say that it was a porky pie but that they now want the people of the State to take on ¤31 billion of toxic bank debt.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: The Government is being joined by Fianna Fáil and, between them, the two parties have contributed to six austerity budgets.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: The two most unequal budgets have come from the Fine Gael Party and this Government. The Government will force ¤31 billion upon the people.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: Not only will the debt belong to the people of this Chamber, it will also belong to our children, who will have to pay it back. The Minister has some neck to come into this House and afford my party one minute and 30 seconds on a Bill as important as this.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: The Minister is asking families in this House and families outside the House to celebrate this sham as some sort of fantastic deal when he is asking the people of the State to take on ¤31 billion of debt.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: I hope the Leader and his Government representatives are thoroughly ashamed of themselves for the way in which they rammed through this legislation in the House.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: I hope they can look the people of the State in the eye-----

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: -----and say that this was the right thing to do. How can the Minister sit there and justify the lack of proper debate?

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: How can the Minister justify the fact that he rammed through this legislation without giving my party, with three representatives in the House, the time it deserves? It is absolutely unacceptable. The Minister should be thoroughly ashamed of himself.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: Come on out of that.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: On a point of order, on the night when we are being asked-----

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: On the night when we are being asked to make an important decision and when the Minister is railroading through legislation, he waltzes in here and wants us to have a discussion about the conflict yet he does not want to deal with the substance of the Bill.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: That is a ridiculous thing for the Minister to do. He cannot deal with the substance of the Bill and he cannot allow for a proper debate. He wants to take us down culs-de-sac and discuss the conflict but not the Bill, which we are being asked to vote on. The Minister has some neck.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: I was talking about the lifetime of this Seanad.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: As the Minister knows, 500 people may lose their jobs tomorrow and some of them may be taken on by NAMA. Can the Minister confirm to this House that the people who will be taken on by NAMA, and I hope many of those workers will be taken on, will be covered by the transfer of undertakings and that their current wage levels will be protected? I am very concerned about the low paid workers-----

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: -----workers and middle income workers who will be very worried about their jobs. I want to ask the Minister a simple question about the transfer of undertakings. Will they be covered?

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)

David Cullinane: Transfer of undertakings.