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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Be quiet.

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

David Cullinane: I think the Deputy means far right.

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: 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: 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: Like myself.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Order of Business (2 May 2013)

David Cullinane: I seek the permission of the Leader of the House to take First Stage of the Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2013, which is item No. 15 on the Order Paper, before item No. 1. I concur with the remarks of Fianna Fáil Members on the Order of Business. Senator Ó Clochartaigh and I have also raised the issue in recent days and weeks. Opposition Members have a genuine concern about the very...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2013)

David Cullinane: Yes. That item No. 15 be taken before item No. 1.

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2013: First Stage (2 May 2013)

David Cullinane: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled the Corporate Manslaughter Bill to create the indictable offence of corporate manslaughter by an undertaking, to create the indictable offence of grossly negligent management causing death by a high managerial agent of the undertaking, and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2013: First Stage (2 May 2013)

David Cullinane: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2013)

David Cullinane: A Government Member, who I will not name as he has left the Chamber, spoke of amnesia, soundbites and slogans. He best summed up where the Government is at itself on a range of issues at present, given the litany of broken promises on child benefit, college fees, the creation of thousands of jobs each month and recently on health issues and the extension of free general practitioner, GP,...