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Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What about the vesting orders on which the European Union commented?

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What about the ruling on what the Revenue Commissioners can and cannot do? The Minister of State is not addressing these questions.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Minister of State is not answering the questions he was asked.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Minister of State is refusing to answer questions.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What about Anglo Irish Bank?

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: He should answer the specific questions he was asked. He has not done so.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Minister of State should answer the questions asked.

Seanad: Banking: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: On a point of order, the Minister of State has indicated there is no Question Time in this House. The Leader informed us there would be time for questions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: We are all wrong. Everyone in the country is wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Government does not wish to talk about the elephant in the room.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Quangos.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)

Maurice Cummins: As peacekeepers, members of the Irish Army are lauded worldwide for their professionalism. In recent years the Defence Forces have undergone major change and reform, unlike many other areas in the public service. The McCarthy report suggested that Defence Forces' personnel numbers should be reduced to 10,000. They now stand at 9,800 and, with natural wastage, the figure will fall below...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: People on low incomes in the private and public sectors have experienced further cuts in income in recent months and many now qualify for family income supplement. However, it takes up to ten weeks for them to receive their entitlements. The Leader will agree that it is totally unacceptable that people who are striving to provide for their families should have to wait to up ten weeks to...

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I formally second the motion so ably proposed by my colleague, Senator Twomey. This is a simple question for Members of this House to decide on. If they disagree with the ministerial pensions being paid to sitting Members of the Dáil or Seanad, they will support the motion. If they agree that the current regime should continue to apply until the next general election, they will support...

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Senators on that side of the House would not change the Order of Business. We could have been discussing Greece.

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator is inviting comment.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: On 27 April I asked the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, if it was intended to amend the NAMA legislation in view of the European Commission's proposals. He indicated there was no such intention. I also asked him a number of other questions on that occasion which he was unable to answer but I thank him for coming back to me today with answers to those questions. In one of the answers,...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The weakest link.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)

Maurice Cummins: We were not invited.