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Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: That was in Fine Gael's election manifesto.

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I am not deliberately misleading the House.

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: That was in Fine Gael's election manifesto.

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: There was also a good deal of public commentary by Fine Gael's public representatives during the course of the election campaign. We then had "It's Frankfurt's way or Labour's way" and all that nonsense, and that the money would not go into the banks. As I said numerous times, Deputy Eamon Gilmore at the time made a name for himself as the tough man taking on the Government and the banks...

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: What does not add up and what is not right socially, economically or morally is that we should be paying back private banking debt. That is what we are doing at a time when we are asking people to shoulder huge amounts of pain. Low to middle income families are being asked to pay every time. The Minister of State can sit in his chair, nod his head and do whatever he likes but the reality...

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: If you were listening you would have heard me say how they would be paid for. You were half asleep. I said there is money in the National Pensions Reserve Fund-----

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: What my party said it would do------

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: We would do what the Senator's party said it would do when it was in opposition, namely, introduce a third rate of tax of 48% but it abandoned that when it went into office.

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: On a point of order, there is no difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Seanad: Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Senator Norris is successful.

Seanad: Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State. This is a short and technical Bill but I take this opportunity to thank all those who give blood in this country. I welcome any legislation that allows for streamlining of services and improved efficiencies in the health sector. I support the Government's efforts in this regard. The Bill shifts responsibility for procurement of clotting factor concentrate...

Seanad: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I raise this issue because I have been in contact with the board of management and the principal of Gaelscoil Philip Barún in Tramore, County Waterford, for many years and have supported them in their battle for a school and capital funding. A meeting was organised with Oireachtas Members last week, with representatives present from the...

Seanad: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: The Minister's response says that the project is currently at an early stage of architectural planning and acknowledges the need for a new building on a 2.5 acre site owned by the Department. However, it reads as if this is an impediment. The school is more advanced than most schools in the capital programme. This school is at the architectural design stage and the design team has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: The next generation.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: That is not what we were saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: On a point of order speakers should be called from alternate sides of the House. I am confused as to why two speakers in a row were called from the Government side of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: It is not the rota which is followed every day.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: For the last year or more, on behalf of my party I have been calling in this House for a full write-down of the debt of Anglo Irish Bank. I wish the Minister for Finance well during the current negotiations on that matter. From what we are hearing, the negotiations are not centred on a debt write-down, unfortunately. My understanding is that two things are being sought, the first of which...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: We are not talking about a debt write-down, which is what we should be talking about.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

David Cullinane: Government representatives need to be very careful.