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Seanad: Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: 1. In page 4, after line 38, to insert the following:“Amendment of Act of 1992 3. The Act of 1992 is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 61:“Common good 61A. The achievement of the common good may require permanent or temporary interference with the rights, including intellectual property rights, of persons or corporate...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: It is not very often that I support a Social Welfare Bill, as we certainly were not given that opportunity in the past few years. However, I am supporting the Bill, not because I think it is fantastic or that the Government has done anything of significance for those on social welfare payments, but because it does provide for some increases for people whom we obviously need to support....

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. This is a Bill that Sinn Féin and I will support. However, I wish to make some comments about the health service, private health insurance and the Government's model. The legislation aims to update the regulation regime for the health insurance sector. Some elements, community weighting, for example, are necessary in the delivery of our health...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: The Labour Party is welcome to come on board with Sinn Féin and be a crutch-----

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: -----for Sinn Féin rather than a crutch for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, as it has been in the past. It is an issue to which Sinn Féin is committed. If the Labour Party is committed to it, that is great and we will see what the other parties offer in the lead-up to the general election. It is obvious that we cannot move to universal health care in a single tier system...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: It is obvious that the Government has a contempt for the Seanad. We have seen it several times attempt to trample all over the rights of the Seanad, one of the institutions of this State. We saw it with the botched referendum campaign. We saw it with the botched by-election campaign. This was one they could not lose but they did, and Senator Craughwell is sitting here today as a...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: This is a clever amendment and one that should be supported, although it states that we should review all the social welfare cuts since 2011. I would go back to 2007 because there were many cuts made by the previous Government as well-----

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: -----but I fully accept the thrust of the amendment which I support. I said on Second Stage when the Minister was in the House that the test of any Government is whether, at the end of its term, it has increased or reduced poverty and inequality. In terms of all the reports, even the right wing ESRI, which is so-called independent, has indicted the Minister's Government with regard to the...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: It was not my intention to get involved in a party political debate, but we are here to scrutinise legislation and also to hold the Government to account. Very often when Ministers are trying to bat away criticism, the notion of a party political debate is peddled. It very much depends on what side of the Chamber one is sitting on.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: We have a job to do, to critique the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014 and to critique the Government's approach to social welfare. This recommendation goes back to 2011 and asks for a review of all the reductions that have taken place and the impact they have had on citizens. The Minister of State said in response that getting people back to work is the best way to lift people...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: We are not.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: No. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: They voted for it. We voted against it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: The Senator's colleagues voted with the Fine Gael councillors.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: I move recommendation No. 3: In page 4, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 3. Section 290(3)(c) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 is amended by the insertion of “the Parish of the Travelling People or any credit union for the purposes of the Lough Payment Scheme, or” before “any other body...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: I support the recommendation. As Senator Power has said, any public representative who holds clinics or assists people with social welfare applications or applications for payments will inevitably have dealt with people who have been waiting for very lengthy periods for their appeal to be heard. Part of the problem is a communication failure between the appeals office and the person...