Results 4,161-4,180 of 26,396 for speaker:David Cullinane

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I join Senator Mullins in raising the seven mortgage lenders who have been found to be in breach of the code of conduct on mortgage arrears following expressions by the Central Bank of Ireland. As we know that framework was introduced in 2011 to ensure that the banks would play ball with the almost 120,000 residential mortgage holders who are in arrears. Despite the concerns expressed by...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: Here we go again with Government Ministers and Senators passing the buck to the Central Bank and others. Of course they have a role and they have expressed clear concerns about the breach of fair process, which was the very essence of the CCMA framework in the first place. Today The Irish Timesreported: "Lenders also continued to seek additional ad-hoc payments from borrowers on top of...

Seanad: Master Plan for the City of Dublin: Motion (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: Senator O'Neill is entitled to make a comparison.

Seanad: Master Plan for the City of Dublin: Motion (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We cannot talk about Kilkenny city. That has been banned, so I will not talk about Waterford city either-----

Seanad: Master Plan for the City of Dublin: Motion (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: -----but I will welcome the Minister of State who hails from that city. It is great to see two Ministers of State in the House from the south east. I commend the proposers of the motion we are discussing today, which is hugely important. What has come across very strongly in all of the contributions so far is the pride that people have in Dublin city. Despite a lot of the obvious problems...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. I agree with the previous speaker that it is a flawed project which needs to be re-examined. I will not oppose the Bill on Second Stage because it is important to move on to Committee Stage where we can discuss these issues in more detail. Second Stage is an opportunity for us to present the general concerns about the Bill. The first and obvious...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I ask the Leader to arrange for a debate on the need for a debt conference, which we have repeatedly requested in this House.The issue has come into sharp focus again as a result of developments in Greece and the demands being made by the Greek Government. While we all want a solution for Greece, it must be a fair and sustainable one, which will require some level of restructuring of the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will support this Bill and will first refer to the provisions I support. I am in favour of collective bargaining and trade union recognition, which is absent from the legislation. I discussed this issue recently with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, when he introduced the Workplace Relations Bill....

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, to delete lines 20 to 26 and substitute the following:“(c) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “retail credit firm”:“ ‘retail credit firm’ means a person prescribed for the purpose of paragraph (g) of other person who holds itself out as carrying on a business of, and whose business...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his lengthy response. I support the Bill, for which thousands of families have been waiting. Many who are in this situation have campaigned for some time. Others may only be waking up to the reality that their mortgages are owned by venture capitalist firms and they will receive new demands in the post from such companies. I want to put on the record...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: It is.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Can the Leader tell us when the civil debt Bill will come before the Seanad? It has worked its way through the Dáil this week. This is the fourth item of legislation this Government has brought forward regarding water charges. Essentially, that is what the civil debt Bill is about. The Minister is dressing it up as a Bill which allows all utility companies to recover debts but it is...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, to delete lines 19 to 21 and substitute the following:"(2) A person who breaches the Act of 1988 in relation to postcodes shall be liable in damages in tort.".As these are simple amendments, I do not propose to delay the Minister. The purpose of the section is to strip data subjects of their data protection rights with regard to the postcode and remove...