Results 4,341-4,360 of 26,396 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: He never denied that abuse. The Senator should set the record straight and be factual.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: He never denied it.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: I will have my chance.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: They are very silly to leave their mobile numbers there.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: Did Senator Paul Coghlan give them a call?
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: I welcome this debate and welcome the Minister to the House for this part of the debate. It is not unexpected that many of the contributions that have been made so far, especially from Government Senators, were simply anti-Sinn Féin rants which could have been made ten or 20 years ago-----
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: -----rather than deal with the real issues that affect people in the North. They say that the first casualty-----
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: With respect to the Senator, this is my contribution. They say that the first casualty of war is truth and it would seem that truth is also a casualty in times of peace as well.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: Senators from Fianna Fáil and from the Government parties have talked about an abandonment of law and order, intimidation, control, criminality, a lack of transparency, insinuations that some political parties are benefitting from crime, and bandit country, when they talk about one of the 32 counties of our country. They make all of these charges. I will read into the record of the...
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: Senator Moran should take that up with the Chief Constable of the PSNI because I am saying that Senators seem to have a different view to the Chief Constable of the PSNI.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: If people want to shout me down-----
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: The Senators do not want to have a constructive debate.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: They do not want to listen to the truth and they do not want to listen to the facts.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: I am putting on to the record of the House what the Chief Constable of the PSNI has said. The PSNI is the police force in the North. This is what he said. He said, "I accept the bona fides of the Sinn Féin leadership regarding their rejection of violence and pursuit of the peace process and I accept their assurance that they want to support police in bringing those responsible to...
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: I condemn what happened to Maria Cahill. The Senator can use-----
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: The Senator can use her tragic circumstances as a weapon with which to attack Sinn Féin. That is up to the Senator. My compassion is with victims of all abuse and crime. Sinn Féin has given very strong leadership on criminality. We cannot say or do any more. We have said very clearly that these people are criminals that should be brought to justice. There is no place for...
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: We have a lot of work to do to continue to build peace. I do not want to see a situation where, when the dust settles, when the political charges die down, when the election in this part of the State is over and elections in the North are over, we have to pick up the pieces. The damage that has been done by some commentary in the South and by some Unionist politicians in the North by...
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: -----and to make sure that we continue with the peace process.
- Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)
David Cullinane: I ask people to be conscious of that as we have this debate.