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Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I also want to call for a debate on the need for a regulator for the charities sector. This issue is being discussed in Oireachtas committees and in canteens, workplaces and homes across the State. We need to discuss it in this House. If the Leader has not given a commitment to provide for a debate on this issue - perhaps he has - I hope he will say that such a debate will take place in...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: The Senator should have supported the amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It is symptomatic of the Irish Water debacle that only one hour has been allocated today to discuss the many issues of concern to us. Senators have scope to make only very short contributions.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It was not my decision, I voted against it.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I am entitled to use my time in whatever way I wish.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: My point is that we are not being given the opportunity to properly tease out the various issues. We have been treated to rushed statements from both Government and Opposition Senators. That is symptomatic of the way the Government has dealt with this issue.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: The Seanad spent 19 hours-----

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: Yes, but we were informed the time constraints were to do with the Minister of State's availability.

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: In any event, the House spent 19 hours debating what became the Water Services Act 2013. I spent the vast majority of that time asking the Minister of State questions. He might remember that I was scolded by Government Senators for asking the same questions over and over again. Those questions related to the transfer of assets from local authorities to Irish Water. In the context of the...

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: Is it right or wrong? Was it justified?

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I thank and commend Senators Daly, Ó Murchú and Byrne, who is not present, on drafting the Bill and on using their Private Members' time to raise this important issue and to allow us to debate it. I also welcome members of the deaf community to the Gallery. In recent months and years, there has been a great deal of discussion on citizens' rights and sovereignty for a variety of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Community Care Provision (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I have raised this matter on the Adjournment on a number of occasions because it is important for the people of Waterford city and for older people. I am looking for an update on what is being done to meet the need for additional community nursing beds. I am specifically interested in the plans to build a new specialist community nursing unit in Waterford city. I will set out the history...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Community Care Provision (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the fact that it is on the face of it good news that the Government is looking at a 100-bed unit in the grounds of St. Patrick's Hospital. It is also good news that it is part of the HSE's viability plan and a design team will be put in place, which will allow for statutory approvals and tender documents to be completed. The plan then goes on to say that this will be part of a...

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House and the publication of the Bill which allows for the holding of the European elections. I wish the best of luck to all the candidates who will contest the forthcoming European and local elections. I was a European election candidate in 2004 and my wife contested the European elections in 2009, so I know what it is like to be a candidate. The...

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I very much hope that when the Minister takes up that big job, he will remember all those who campaigned very vigorously to have a Commissioner. The Minister campaigned in favour of the original Lisbon treaty and could have unwittingly done himself out of a job, but that is a different story. We do not have 11 MEPs in Ireland. We will have 14 because there are three in the North.

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: They are Irish MEPs. One of the good things to happen in recent years is that there is much greater all-island co-operation between our MEPs on very important issues such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy and those areas. We need to consider these issues from an all-island perspective and not in the partitionist way that some do. The European Union faces big...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I join Senator Ivana Bacik in commending those who held the event in the Seanad Chamber today to commemorate the anniversary of the 1918 general election. I look forward to the day when we have a similar result. The Leader might know Waterford was the only constituency in 1918 which did not return a Sinn Féin Deputy. I hope to rectify this in the near future.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It is a work in progress.