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Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 11: In page 20, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:“Regulations 22. The Minister may by regulations provide for a mechanism to provide for representation by or on behalf of retired employees, including organised groups of retired employees, in relation to his, her or their pensions, deferred or otherwise.”.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 12: In page 22, line 32, to delete “voluntary”.This is an important amendment, as it is the one that seeks to delete the word "voluntary" so that we have mandatory trade union recognition, or at least move in that direction. I will not repeat or go through all of the arguments again. Some of the Senators present may not have been here on Committee Stage...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 13: In page 27, to delete lines 34 to 36.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I strongly disagree with the previous speaker who missed the point as to why Bill was brought forward in the first place. It is not over-prescriptive. I could argue that in many areas it is not prescriptive enough because of the issues we discussed earlier with regard to the Constitution. The reason we have the Bill is to restore the REAs, because some unscrupulous employers made an...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I support the call from Senator Ó Murchú for a debate on the Ballymurphy massacre. More importantly, the Irish Government should show real support and put pressure on the British Government to accede to what is a legitimate call for an independent panel of inquiry to be set up. I support everything Senator Ó Murchú said. I also want to refer to the fiasco that is Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Can I ask the Acting Chairman how many Members are required for a quorum?

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: It is a bit much that a party would propose a Private Members' motion and not be here to debate it. They should be present for the debate on their own Private Members' motion.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Why not?

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: The Senator has made a big impact so far.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I commend the authors of the motion before us. I hope it is passed and there is a good chance it will. That should not necessarily mean that nothing happens because we are one House of the Oireachtas and that should mean something to the Government. If one House states it will not support cuts, surely that should be a wake-up call for the...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Senator Mulcahy had his say, and it is my opportunity to have my say.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: He can call it what he likes, but I am dealing with-----

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I am dealing with reality.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I am dealing with reality, which is the large number of people who contacted me and the meetings I attended with lone parents who are losing, rather than gaining, money. For any Senator on the Government side to say five out of the six people who contacted him will gain money is incorrect. The majority of women in receipt of lone parent's allowance will lose money because of the measures...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Weight of Schoolbags (16 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.