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- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: Why is the Senator telling us something we already know?
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: What has that got to do with anything?
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: Yet one of the Fianna Fáil Senators will vote against the motion. There must be a split in Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: That is strange, because the Sinn Féin vote has gone up in Tyrone at every election. It is very odd.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: He cannot name even one Sinn Féin representative in favour of fracking.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: Give us one name.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: A former campaign manager? The Senator cannot even name him.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: The Senator cannot even name one.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: What is Sinn Féin's position in the North?
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: The Senator might enlighten me as to the change in policy.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: The Labour Party three.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his response and all Senators for their comments on this Private Members' motion. I will respond to them in the most constructive way I can.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: I will start with the contributions of Fianna Fáil Members. If we could generate electricity or energy from the hot air and wind that came from some Fianna Fáil Senators, we would be home and hosed in reaching our renewable energy targets. I must point to a number of facts. Sinn Féin's position on overgrounding versus undergrounding of high voltage power lines is the same in...
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: We join Senator Paschal Mooney in accepting that we do not have devolved power, but the reality is that-----
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: The only political party on the island of Ireland doing anything about trying to obtain full fiscal powers for the Northern Ireland Assembly and the people of Ireland is Sinn Féin.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: Unlike the Fianna Fáil Party, my party is organised in the North. It is the largest political party on the Nationalist side and one of the largest on the island of Ireland. That is where much of the opposition to Sinn Féin's motion comes from. Fianna Fáil Senators spoke against it, but they said they would support it, which is more hypocrisy.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: The Senator has no point of order to raise.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: I am glad that Senator Paschal Mooney has shifted his position in the past few minutes.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: I am grateful to Senator Paschal Mooney, but I point to the hypocrisy of Fianna Fáil on this issue. When it was in power, it was in favour of EirGrid's plans, high voltage power lines-----
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
David Cullinane: Not personally, but the Senator's party was in favour of them. Fianna Fáil brought forward the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act that allowed EirGrid to go straight to An Bord Pleanála and bypass the proper planning system.