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- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences Renewals (21 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: 613. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that taxi drivers in Waterford city have to go to Kilkenny city in order to have their vehicles certified as an SPSV, that this is an additional cost on taxi drivers often resulting in the loss of a day's income and that any repairs have to happen in Kilkenny; his plans to rectify this...
- Topical Issue Debate: Psychological Services (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I, too, have a copy of the Mental Health Commission's leaked report which considers a number of options, one of which is to deregister the entire unit at University Hospital Waterford, which would be inconceivable. Another is to reduce the acute beds in the psychiatric unit at Waterford from 14 to six. This would have profound implications for people who suffer from mental health issues,...
- Topical Issue Debate: Psychological Services (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Topical Issue Debate: Psychological Services (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: What is happening here is absolutely outrageous. As the Minister of State said, the service in Wexford was amalgamated into the Waterford service. The Mental Health Commission's report states very clearly that there is a lack of capacity regarding space, therapists and staff and that, essentially, the unit in Waterford was starved of resources and capacity. Bizarrely, the commission's...
- Topical Issue Debate: Psychological Services (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I ask that the Minister with responsibility would forward a written response to us.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with a number of other Deputies. James Connolly once famously said that the cause of labour is the cause of Ireland and the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour. He recognised that a republic is only a republic in name if it does not vindicate the rights of citizens. Central to this tenet is the vindication of the...
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: They are refused access to trade union officials. This is completely unfair. As I speak, the Mandate trade union and its members are in conflict with Tesco. The dispute is about an attempt to change the terms and conditions of employment unilaterally for pre-1996 workers. This is rightly seen as the thin end of the wedge. It is also part of an attempt by the company to break the union as...
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Did the Deputy get his briefing from the Minister?
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, that is absolutely inappropriate.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I am asking the Deputy to withdraw that.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Any employer is entitled-----
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: ----- to defend themselves at the Workplace Relations Commission, just as an employee is entitled to have a case heard.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: For the Deputy to call into question the integrity of my party and anybody associated with my party because of an ongoing case is despicable on his part. It shows his absolute lack of interest in procedures.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: It is nonsense from the Deputy.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I thought we were not supposed to name names or is that just bias?
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: There should be some consistency.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: With respect, the Acting Chairman pulled me up on naming names but he did not pull up-----
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: The Acting Chairman did not do that.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.