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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Senator O'Brien raised the Social Welfare Bill. I do not have the exact date but it will come before the House in the next number of weeks. While the Bill will deal with the increases in child benefit and so on announced in the budget, it may be an opportunity for the Senator to raise the plight of deferred benefit pensioners which he, Senator Power and also many Fine Gael and Labour...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: That is another legacy issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Little or no social housing was provided.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: They preferred to see it with the developers at that stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Schools, housing and everything else-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator should ask the people on the housing lists; they will tell him. Senator Coghlan welcomed the measures to abolish the pension levy. Senator Conway raised the report of the justice committee on domestic violence. I will try to arrange to have a debate on that report in the House with the Minister. Senator Leyden highlighted the fact that many people are under boil water notices in...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I think the Senator is suffering from amnesia regarding Fianna Fáil's attitude to water charges. People would have been paying a €400 flat charge for the past two years-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: -----if it had managed to get into office but, thankfully, that did not happen.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I agree with Senator Norris. If I was doing a crossword and had to come up with a five letter word for performance-related payments it would be "bonus". I am agreeable to the Senator's amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 12 be taken before No. 1. Senator Power raised the plight of the Palestinian people. As I said yesterday, the Government pledged an additional €2.5 million...

Seanad: St. Patrick's Hospital Dublin (Charter Amendment) Order 2014: Motion (16 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Saint Patrick's Hospital Dublin (Charter Amendment) Order 2014,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 30th September, 2014.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: The Order of Business is No. 1., Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 - Committee Stage (resumed), to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2., Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014 - Report and Final Stages, to be taken at 2.30 p.m.; and No. 3., Private Member's business, Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014 - Second Stage, to be taken at 3.30 p.m.,...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I join with other Members in welcoming the US ambassador and the Palestinian ambassador to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the Moroccan ambassador as well. I did not see any of the ambassadors as they are behind me, so I am depending on the other side of the House to inform me of the situation. Senator O'Brien raised the question of Irish Water, which quite a number of Members have raised, and he proposed an amendment to the Order of Business, as Senator O'Donnell did yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: This is in regard to bringing the Minister, Deputy Kelly, to the House. My office has been in contact with the Minister's office on several occasions over the last number of weeks to have the Minister to the House, and he has agreed to come in on 5 November. We are off next week so 5 November will be during the first week we are back. The Minister has acceded to that request. If the House...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: In regard to Irish Water, certainly, mistakes have been made, as the Minister has acknowledged. However, what were we to do - go and adopt the Fianna Fáil policy of having a €400 flat charge for the last two years, ignore everybody else and just impose it?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: That is not what we are trying to do. We are trying to fix and make up for the errors that have been made.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: When the country was awash with money-----

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: -----Fianna Fáil refused to deal with the problems-----

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I know Senator O'Brien does not like to be reminded of the facts but they would not deal with that matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I tried to answer the Senator but he shouted me down.