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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (6 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. He will know that, during the Lisbon treaty campaign, there was much talk about the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and that commitments were given to trade unions that if they supported the treaty the issue of collective bargaining and trade union recognition would be dealt with through legislation. I understand collective...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (6 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I asked the Minister to clarify if it would be necessary to amend the Constitution in order to legislate for a right to collective bargaining. In his response, the Minister said that it had been established in a number of legal cases that the constitutional guarantee to freedom of association does not guarantee workers' rights to have their union recognised for the purpose of collective...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (6 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: If somebody were to request, for example, that there would be mandatory trade union recognition, would it require a constitutional change? I am not asking whether the Government would do it.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (6 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: That is the question I raised on the Adjournment.

Seanad: Early Intervention and Family Support Services: Statements (7 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Teach. I also welcome her to the post in which she serves. Along with Senator van Turnhout, I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children. I have been impressed with the Minister's performance in the engagements we have had at that committee. I am sure there will be positive changes in the area of early intervention and...

Seanad: Rare Diseases: Motion (7 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Cuirim fáilte roimh an tAire Stáit go dtí an Teach. I also welcome the guests in the Visitors Gallery and thank the Fine Gael Party for tabling this motion. Members may be aware that the International Day for Rare Diseases occurred last week. A number of very good presentations were made to the Joint Committee on Health and Children. I was struck by a number of the comments and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Yesterday the Taoiseach and Tánaiste published a report, which reviewed the Government's first year in office. It is only fair that we judge the Government fairly over the past year. I would benchmark the Government's performance against what its parties promised they would do in their pre-election manifestos. They promised not to put one red cent into the banks and not to pay back...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Across the board on the big issues of unemployment, emigration, and what is happening in the banks and the public services with money taken from health, education and local authorities, the Government has not delivered. I am not judging it on what I want it to do but on what its parties promised to do in their pre-election manifestos. They have failed and we are getting more of the same...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: In light of Private Members' business next week, I withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Order of Business agreed to.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: We have never told people not to pay.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: The Senator is misinformed as usual. He should listen to what people are saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: If the Senator is going to tell lies in this Chamber, which is what he is good at-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: He should not tell lies.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I will not because he told a lie. He said that Sinn Féin representatives are calling on people not to pay. They have not done so. The Senator has told a lie in this Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I will not withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: The Senator has told a lie. Can the Cathaoirleach tell me how it is not a lie? The Senator said that representatives of Sinn Féin are asking people not to pay.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I will not withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: What does the Chair want me to withdraw?