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- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The Government must do its job and make sure that in future when these situations arise, workers are given respect and have the support of the law of the land-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: -----and are not left to the mercy of some unscrupulous employers in this State-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: -----who did not give workers the support they needed in these difficult times.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: What has any of that got to do with the issue that we raised? It is pure and utter waffle. It is an insult to those of us who put down this Topical Issue.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: They should clog up the Workplace Relations Commission because the Government will not do its job. This is an "Alice in Wonderland" speech we are getting. It is ridiculous.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Yes, they know their own business best. They put their business first. The Minister has let the cat out of the bag. It is not the workers but the business.
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Deputy Sherlock's party had a chance to do it.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: That did not take long.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The Deputy called for the institutions to be pulled down.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The Deputy is blaming the electorate now.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: We have juxtaposed the speech and contribution of the Tánaiste, and bear in mind the Tánaiste was somebody who was at the heart of those negotiations and efforts to secure the restoring of the institutions in the North, and that of the classic hurler on the ditch, Deputy Micheál Martin, who again has come into the Chamber not to be constructive, as he said, but simply to repeat...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The vast majority of people outside the House who are nationalist in the North want all the parties to be constructive and they understand the motivations that lie behind the attacks which come from Teachta Martin. They are not about making sure we deal with the real complexities and challenges that present in the North. It is all to do with what he sees as the electoral challenge from Sinn...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: I commend an Teachta Mary Lou McDonald for her work on the committee. She was also a member during the last Dáil. She was a formidable and very constructive member of the committee. Perhaps we might write to the two Deputies who served as members of the committee to thank them for their contributions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: I have three issues and I propose to deal with them all, rather than coming in separately on each. I understand the point Deputy Kelly is making on the legal advice given to the then Commissioner. Can the Committee of Public Accounts get legal advice on whether privilege still exists when the then Commissioner is no longer in office? I presume that the legal adviser to the acting Garda...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: That is fine; that is reporting. What I am talking about is holding the Garda authorities to account. Recommendations were made. I am asking whether the recommendations were implemented? Are the changes that were promised being made? We need to give that some consideration. One could argue that we have to wait until the Garda Síochána come back before us again in the normal...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: On foot of the seriousness of the issues and the fact that have we invested so much of our time, we need to find out what progress has been made.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: My third point relates to something that has not happened very often in the history of the Committee of Public Accounts. I refer to the fact that efforts are being made by other politicians to undermine the work of the committee. We see it both inside and outside the Dáil Chamber. It happened in respect of this issue as well. There was correspondence from some Government Deputies...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: I totally agree with that. We are big boys and girls and are well able for the cut and thrust of politics. I have no difficulty with people making political charges about this committee or its members. However, a pattern has emerged in recent times. At times we obviously have to raise issues that are sensitive in our constituencies and the Chairman has given an example of such. I imagine...