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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (9 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered amalgamating the proposed adoption information and tracing Bill with the current Adoption Amendment Bill 2016; if not, her rationale for not doing so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14830/16]

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: First Stage (14 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for banded hour contracts, the right for a worker to request increased hours and a corresponding obligation on an employer to consider such a request, to permit refusal only on objectively justified grounds and an obligation on employers to provide information to workers on the overall availability of working hours in...

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: First Stage (14 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." If Taoiseach would give me his attention, I appeal to him to read the Bill. It is an important one that goes to the heart of an issue that affects many low paid workers in this State. The Taoiseach will be aware that a report was commissioned by the previous Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on "if and when"...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I have heard an awful lot in the last number of months about new politics and, already, it is becoming a bit of a tired cliche. I have not seen much evidence of it when it comes to my party and how Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have treated our approach to the Thirty-second Dáil since I have become a Member. The Government could have taken a constructive approach to our Bill today....

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I am talking about the Government. The Taoiseach, in this Chamber today, as I sat here on the Order of Business-----

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I am not interested in picking any fight. I am pointing out the reality of what the Taoiseach said and of what Fianna Fáil said about our Bill, namely, that we were playing political games. If the Minister does not believe that, and if he believes, like me, that is disingenuous, he should say that and say that what we are doing here tonight is in the best interests of citizens. It is...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I hope that is genuinely the position of the Government and not just the Minister's position, because he is seen by many people outside the Chamber as the friendly face of the Fine Gael Party. Unfortunately, the Fine Gael Party does not always sing from the same hymn sheet as the Minister did this evening. To get to the heart of this issue, we are dealing with people who are in dire...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: On the Order of Business a number of weeks ago, I asked the Taoiseach about the status of the Action Plan for Jobs for the south east and whether it was the intention of the Government to re-evaluate that plan. Since then we have had the publication of the CSO quarterly household survey, which shows that unemployment in the south east is still dangerously high at 12.5%. It is double that of...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: -----an independent report published by Waterford Institute of Technology which shows again the neglect of the south-east region. Is it the intention of the Government to re-evaluate the regional jobs strategies? Given the very high levels of unemployment in the south east, will the Taoiseach commit to giving the south east a higher priority?

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Companies Act 2014 to hold a company officer or officers acting on behalf of a corporate body personally liable where a breach of employment law is committed.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." This is a Bill to amend the Companies Act 2014 to hold a company officer or officers acting on behalf of a corporate body personally liable where a breach of employment law is committed. It would lift the "corporate veil" whereby company officers or directors can separate the legal personality of a company from their legal...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: It is €1.5 million.

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I wish the Minister well in his new post. It is the first time I have addressed him in this Chamber, and I have worked very well with him in his previous incarnation as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. I find myself agreeing with much of what he said in his speech. The problem is that the rhetoric in the speech does not match the output in terms of the outgoing Government's...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: The Chairman always uses the word "brief" when it comes to me. I hope I get the same time as everybody else. I thank him for his clarification. I welcome the Ministers. The Government's submission was helpful in the sense that it set out the new budgetary cycle. We have had discussions on this. As the Minister, Deputy Noonan, put it, we are a scoping or arrangements committee which is...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I am asking the Minister for his view.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: What about scrutiny of off-balance sheet budgeting?

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: The programme for Government commits to a public sector pay commission, to be established in due course. One of the sorest points for public sector workers concerns the treatment of the post-2011 new entrants. We have a two-tier parallel pay structure in place.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Will that be a priority for the Government?

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: In 2011, in addressing the previous Minister for Health, Senator James Reilly, I told him he could be a reforming, radical Minister for Health. I then said the same to the Minister, Deputy Varadkar. Unfortunately, both failed in their jobs - both failed to reform the health system and both failed to bring us any closer to a single-tier, fair universal health care system. The Minister,...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: This is as a result of many problems in many areas of the hospital in Waterford with regard to orthopaedics, ophthalmology and ear nose and throat. There are real pressure points in all of these areas. All of these bottlenecks merge in the accident and emergency department and create the crisis we have. We have record numbers of people awaiting treatment and not only in Waterford. This...