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

David Cullinane: No.

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

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 23, to delete “postcode contractor” and substitute “Data Protection Commissioner”.We believe the Data Protection Commissioner is the appropriate officer to carry out the work of upholding data protection. Capita, the postcode contractor, is not sufficiently distant from its customers and suppliers who are the most likely...

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

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, to the House. He has been spending a great deal of time here. I am not sure if that bodes well for him into the future and I wonder if the Minister of State is trying to send us a message. Nevertheless, it is good to see him here.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I am pleased to hear that. I would like to pick up on the point made by Senator Conway regarding people who have concerns about this legislation allowing it to progress to Committee Stage where the real work is done. There is an element of wisdom in that. The problem, however, is that Members on this side of the House have brought forward several Bills and despite our calls that they be...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: A little bit of practise what we preach might not go astray. However, I take Senator Conway's point. It is well made. I commend the proposer of the Bill for allowing us to have this important debate on bullying and cyberbullying. In 2013, my colleague, Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, tabled a Private Members' Bill in the Dáil entitled the education and welfare (amendment) Bill. This is...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: There is a song in that.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I send my condolences to the family of Val Doonican, a Waterford man, who died yesterday. It is a tragedy for his family and I offer my condolences to his wife Lynn and his extended family. He was bestowed the freedom of Waterford city a number of years ago. I had the pleasure of being in the council chamber on that occasion and to hear about his life and the many stories he had to tell....

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Almost every day last week Senator Craughwell and others tried to move a motion he placed, democratically, on the Order Paper. He gave the Minister every opportunity. He did not push the matter to a vote and yet she was not able to come into the House to discuss these changes. This will drive women out of work. That is the core of the argument against these changes. They will not...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I commend the Greek people on showing courage and voting decisively against what was a very unjust-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I am not a Communist.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Can I first of all speak uninterrupted? I did not interrupt anyone on the other side of the House when they were speaking. I commend the people of Greece on the way they have voted. They have showed real courage in voting against what has been described by other Senators in this House as an attempt by the European elites to force upon the Greek Government and people unsustainable debt,...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: -----and sitting Ministers are in for substantial pay increases. We also know that despite the facade of fairness which the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is trying to present as underpinning the Lansdowne Road agreement, higher earners, those with more than €65,000, including Deputies, are in line for a €7,000 pay increase over the next two years. What of those...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: The Senator should ask his Workers Party colleagues about that.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: A helmet.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I remember their charge about economic treason.