Results 4,601-4,620 of 26,396 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Priority Questions: Legislative Reviews (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: With respect, Sinn Féin has given qualified support to the Lansdowne Road agreement. We said that if we were in government, we would implement it. It is not what we wanted and we would have done it differently, but it is the agreement now in place. As such, I do not have a difficulty with the implementation of the agreement because at long last it gives something back after years of...
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: The stability programme-----
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: On a point of order-----
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, are Priority Questions not taken first?
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: It was a priority question.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: We had two priority questions and there was no chance to respond.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: With respect, that is not what we were given to understand in terms of how Priority Questions would work. With respect, if we have two priority questions, we have a right to ask them and have the Minister respond to them. I have been denied that right. We tabled two priority questions. It is not good enough that the spokesperson is allowed one question. We will not get to any of our oral...
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: The Minister indicated that income from the sale of State assets is being used to fund capital expenditure. Has he read a report from the European Commission indicating that the State is falling behind in terms of capital expenditure, especially on housing, health care, child care, water services and infrastructure? What plans does the Government have to increase capital expenditure? Given...
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: The European Commission identified target areas, including health and housing.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: Is it the Minister's intention to punish trade unions, including ASTI, that have not signed up to the Lansdowne Road agreement? Will these unions continue to be threatened with the use of the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation? I welcome the changes to the payment of allowances to newly recruited fire-fighters. Could this mechanism be used by other...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: That is not how certain trade unions see it.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: It was used by the Secretary General of the Department.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: ASTI made that point.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: The Department threatened ASTI.
- Other Questions: Programme for Government (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: I too would welcome that costings document. It is quite extraordinary that we have a programme for Government that is so vague and where it is not vague, there are no costings with many of the proposals. The Minister mentioned earlier in response to Deputy Howlin that €6.5 billion of extra investment was being put aside by the Government for public services and capital expenditure....
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: I gave qualified support to the Lansdowne Road agreement because at least it gave something back. However, the problem I have in regard to that agreement, which we would honour, concerns pay restoration. The Minister spoke about pay restoration but it is for those on over €65,000 in terms of what was taken from them through the Haddington Road agreement.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: It is. I am talking about the Lansdowne Road agreement. There was a separate proposal in the Croke Park agreement, a registered agreement that is being implemented as part of the Lansdowne Road agreement. For those on over €65,000, they get full pay restoration - in terms of what was taken under the Haddington Road agreement - over 2017 and 2018 and for those on over...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: I am talking about those earning €65,000.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: They are having their pay fully restored.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2016)
David Cullinane: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on Government plans for capital investment, given the desperate need for this in housing, health, infrastructure, public transport and so forth and in the context of the European Commission country report for Ireland 2016 which states that public investment under the capital spending plan for 2016 to 2021 is back-loaded...