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- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: Given the Leader stated he would endeavour to have the Minister in the House in the short term, I withdraw the amendment.
- Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 2: “To add the following paragraphs after ‘who are not Joint Policing Committee members’:- recommends that all Joint Policing Committees regularly convene public meetings as a matter of priority, supported by an outreach programme to increase and diversify participation where senior Gardaí and appropriate senior local authority staff are in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I want to support Senator van Turnhout's call for a debate on the Children First Bill, which, as she said, has been stalled on Committee Stage for some time. We supported that Bill when it was passing through this House and the Dáil on Second Stage. It is important it is completed because we need to have robust and fit-for-purpose systems and supports for victims of crime. Senator van...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: If anybody has any information in regard to an alleged cover-up then-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: -----there is a responsibility-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: People can heckle and they can politicise this issue if they like-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: People can heckle-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I am entitled to make my contribution, with respect. I will make the point again that I find it offensive that people would allege that members of my party, including the leadership-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: -----that any member of Sinn Féin would be involved in a cover-up of abuse.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: If they have any proof, or if any individual has any proof, they should bring it to the relevant authorities.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I have, but I find it disgusting that there are people who would politicise an issue such as this. I will finish on this point because I think it is-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: That is not the case at all. Look at what the Senator's party leader has said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: My question is to the Deputy Leader of the House. Can she arrange for a debate on this because what that Bill does is to set out very clearly the limitations of public representatives in what they can and cannot do in instances like this. It also sets out the responsibilities, which are to give support to victims, to make sure they go to the proper authorities and that the systems in place...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I commend Senator Averil Power for her contribution today and the motion being tabled, which Sinn Féin supports fully. It is good that it has received cross-party if not all-party support or all-Member support. To have the number of Senators who have put their names to the motion do so is excellent. We are very proud to be part of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: No. I assume Fianna Fáil will do so. I will allow them to do that, but I am happy the names of the three Sinn Féin Senators are being put to it. I raise the issue of the technological university applications and put a question on that directly to the Leader of the House. As the Leader will know, Waterford IT and Carlow IT are putting forward a joint application for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I condemn the allegations made by a number of Senators in this House that my party and my party's president, as they put it, were engaged in a cover-up of child abuse. I refute those allegations absolutely, as I did on Tuesday. I repeat that if anybody has information about abuse, they should bring that information to the proper authorities. The criminal justice system - An Garda...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: But she seems to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Bacik seems to suggest, as do a number of other Senators in this House, that there is information in their possession in relation to a cover-up of abuse, which is simply not true. Sinn Féin as a party and the Sinn Féin president, Deputy Gerry Adams, were not involved in any cover-up. I make the point again. If anyone-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: We have had a bellyful of Senator O'Brien's false outrage on this issue in the House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: It is false outrage. He is trying to score political points.