Results 3,721-3,740 of 26,396 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: It is a disgrace.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear. It should be fixed.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The Minister of State has had nothing to say.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: We will see in the next election.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: It is the only way. We will see then.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: There will be a seat kept safe here for the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Ó Clochartaigh and I contributed earlier and raised a number of genuine concerns about water charges, expressing our opposition and detailing why we opposed them. We indicated how they were unfair and I spoke about progressive taxation versus indirect taxes. There were a number of specific questions and we raised genuine concerns but none of these was addressed in the response....
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I did not mention them at all.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: No, I did not. If you check back-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I did not. I think Senator Norris-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Norris is getting very cranky. I think maybe he should go home and let the rest of us-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: This is my second contribution to this section on water charges, which is fundamental to my opposition. I made one previous contribution on this. If Senator Norris or anybody else has a difficulty with that, that is a matter for them. I will make my contribution. I am talking about the water charges element of the Bill. We are speaking to section 3 and that is where my concerns lie. I...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Norris now claims that he also saw what was coming but he was shouting down Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin Senators who were raising concerns. We had the same-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: If the Chair could-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Are we not allowed to ask questions? Is this Committee Stage of the Water Services Bill?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Can I put the questions or not? Am I allowed to put questions to the Minister? It is not the Opposition's fault that it is the Friday before Christmas and this is being rushed through. That is not our fault.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: They want to get home but that is not my fault that we are forced into a situation where we must take this so close to Christmas when people want to get home. I asked the Minister of State about this being a regressive versus a progressive tax and why the Government is introducing this as a water charge that does not have an ability to pay element to it as opposed to progressive taxation. I...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Well then I am asking the question. I am allowed to ask a question until I get an answer.