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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: Does the Senator know the number?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: These community alert notices are everywhere. That is what community alerts are about.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: We have community alert notices in Waterford.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: The MP is a Sinn Féin MP.

Seanad: Children First Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: First and foremost, I commend the Minister on bringing forward this Bill. It is a good day for Ireland and the State that the passage of the Bill before us through the Houses is reaching its conclusion. I sat on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children for the first two years in which I served in the Seanad and it was an issue the Minister constantly supported and raised. He...

Seanad: Children First Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 3:In page 24, line 21, after “1991” to insert the following:“, including a person taking care of one or more children (other than that person’s own such children) in that person’s home, but not including any such person who is a relative of the child or children or the spouse of such relative”. I will be very brief on this...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1:In page 4, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“ “low carbon” means an aggregate reduction in CO2 emissions of at least 80 per cent (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050 across the electricity generation, built environment, and transport sectors; and in parallel, an approach to carbon neutrality in the agriculture and land-use sector,...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: We certainly will not be withdrawing these amendments. In response to the Minister of State' scripted response, I would say that targets are set in many areas. We had to set targets for how much waste could be sent to landfill. That obviously led to much more use of recycling and reusing of waste. Unfortunately, many of those targets were set by Europe and not by the State. We were...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: Did the Senator say something?

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I am nearly finished but I responded to the Senator. I do not accept the Minister of State's weak response. She has not addressed why clear targets have not been set but spoke about the national policy, which falls short by far. Ireland has a big problem with climate change but it is not on its own. I accept that Ireland is not as bad as a lot of other European countries and does a lot...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: May I speak to it?

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 3:In page 5, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:"(a) a target of reducing CO2emissions by at least 80 per cent on 1990 levels by 2050,".

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 5:In page 6, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"(d) the principle of climate change justice for developing countries and countries vulnerable to climate change,". I am sure the Minister of State will agree that while climate change impacts on developed countries, it has a profound impact on developing countries, particularly in food and energy production....

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: We were seeking the inclusion of the reference in this section also. While I appreciate, as stated by the Minister of State, that the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, has inserted similar wording in other parts of the Bill, I would still like to press the amendment, although not to a vote.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I agree with the remarks of the previous speaker. I have made reference a number of times to the all-party consensus which appeared to be evident at the environment committee, which is good and positive. On the subject of political reform in the future, I have no doubt but that it will again be a topic of conversation for a while, for whatever Government comes into office after the next...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

David Cullinane: I am flabbergasted by the Minister of State's response, a copy of which should be given to every citizen of the State if that is what the Minister of State believes. She believes that only the Government should make decisions and not the Oireachtas. This includes the Minister of State's party colleagues on the backbenches. She is saying the Cabinet should make decisions and the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

David Cullinane: On almost every day on which the Seanad has sat during the past year or so, there have been consistent calls for debates on housing and homelessness. It is more than that - people have been calling for the Government to get its act together, to put in place policies to deal with issues in respect of homelessness and the private rented sector, the supply of housing by the State and the...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister back to the House. It was only a few weeks ago that he was here with another Bill that also received widespread support from this House. I am pleased to give my party's support to the Bill before us today. It has enjoyed support even though there are some aspects of it which we will seek to improve on Committee Stage. The Bill is very welcome. In the past, I, as a...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)

David Cullinane: I call for a debate on where Government policy and strategy stand in respect of the proposed technological universities. A commitment was given in the programme for Government to allow institutes of technology to make joint applications to obtain the status of technological university. A number of such applications were submitted, with some applicants being more advanced than others. There...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.