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- Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and am glad to participate in this debate. Sinn Féin initially welcomed the publication of this Bill because, like many people, we saw it as at least a step forward, but we have clear reservations about elements of the Bill and we do not believe it goes far enough. Sinn Féin published a comprehensive Bill on this issue some time ago,...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: I wish to share two minutes with Senator Craughwell, so the Cathaoirleach might let me know when my two minutes are up.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. I have raised this issue with her previously. The last time we discussed it was a couple of months before the Christmas recess in the aftermath of Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT's withdrawal from the process of developing a technological university for the south east via the planned merger with Carlow Institute of Technology. Waterford is the...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: I find it incredible that there is still to this date no independent validation of where both institutes are as a collective in regard to reaching the guidelines, targets and benchmarks which were set. Validation should have been done from day one.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: Waterford IT has withdrawn from the process. We still have not been given a report. People have been told by people in Waterford and elsewhere that Carlow IT is way behind. Give us the facts. From day one there should have been an independent validation of the entire process. The problem is that was never done. I specifically wrote to the Minister, as an Oireachtas Member, seeking a...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: Where is it?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: The criteria have been but I am talking about the benchmark.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: I understand the criteria. I am asking about the position of the institutes in terms of meeting the criteria.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: At what stage are they?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: They have not been given anything.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: The Minister has not met Oireachtas Members either, which I find incredible.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: Last week on the Order of Business, I proposed that the motion to set up the terms of reference for the commission of inquiry into the findings of the Guerin report into Garda malpractice in the Cavan-Monaghan area should not be taken without debate. I also sought to debate the matter in this House and suggested that there should have been a debate in the Dáil as well. Since then, of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: We are discussing the Order of Business. I am calling for the Ceann Comhairle in the Dáil and you as Cathaoirleach in the Seanad to reconsider having a debate on this issue, because it is of such fundamental importance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: It is, because-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: And I can speak to the Leader of the House - whoever has responsibility.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: It is the Taoiseach who has responsibility as well, because-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: -----the information in regard to the letter that was sent by a former Minister and a sitting member of Fine Gael had to be dragged out of him in the Dáil. So he must take responsibility for this mess as well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: What we are calling for, given the seriousness of the issue-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: It is a matter for the Order for Business-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
David Cullinane: -----because we had a motion last week that was taken without debate. What I am asking for is that the motion be brought back to both the Dáil and the Seanad so that all Oireachtas Members can scrutinise the terms of reference. It is a serious issue and there was a disturbing development in regard to what happened.