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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Community Development (14 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: This concerns funding for the Waterford City Community Forum and the need for the funding not only to be ring-fenced but to return to 2010 levels. The Waterford City Community Forum is one of a number of fora across the State providing a valuable service in bringing together a range of community and voluntary organisations. It is an umbrella organisation with links to Waterford City Council...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Community Development (14 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I am sure there are the same difficulties throughout the country. Nevertheless, the 220 community and voluntary organisations that make up the Waterford City Community Forum are struggling to keep their own funding. The Minister's response, read by the Minister of State, refers to scarce resources. We all accept that. All organisations are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Gleeson, Mr. Lynam and Mr. Hickey for their presentations. We are all agreed that the black market undermines our domestic economy, costs jobs and has implications for workers' rights, which I will explain later. It also costs lives. Mr. Hickey made the point that there is a connection between the black market, criminality, drug gangs and gun crime. This problem needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: What new measures have been put in place to address the issue of demand?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I see partyism is alive and well.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I support the call made by a number of Senators that whatever inquiry is held into the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, it must be truly independent and the family must be central to it. Senator Ó Clochartaigh made the point that it should not involve people from the hospital in Galway if the inquiry is to be truly independent, although they will obviously be part of what happens. As...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: You do not represent the Labour Party position on this. I will not take any guff from you.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: You do not represent your own party's position.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: Will the Leader encourage his party's Members to support the motion that has been tabled and will the leader of the Labour Party do the same among Members from her party? It is a clear and modest motion.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: It simply calls on the Government to legislate for the X case.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: The women of Ireland should not have to wait any longer.

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Statements (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: The Senator must be worried. The tax is aimed at individuals with assets worth more than ¤1 million.

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Statements (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: Cut benefits but do not tax the rich.

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Statements (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. We sometimes suffer from groupthink in this House. A great deal of positivity is being directed towards the Minister this afternoon. Some positive things are happening. I assume the Minister accepts the reality that we have a substantial job to do to create the jobs needed to reduce the current standardised rate of unemployment, which is 14.8%. Over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: It is not agreed. Most of these proposals relate to trade and below-cost products that enter the European Union. I do not have a difficulty with any of them. However, COM (2012) 524 deals with the opening up of the EU market to Burma. As we know, products that have come from Burma to date have had increased tariffs imposed on them because of the use of forced labour practices. Given that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Mismatch between Industry Requirements and Third Level Courses: Discussion (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I also welcome the witnesses. I also commend Senator Clune on her work in this area on what is now, I suppose, an all-party report on this issue. I thank Senator Clune for her contribution and lead on the issue. To put the matter in context, between quarter one of 2007 and quarter one of 2012, the economy of the State lost in excess of 300,000 jobs. That is where we need look. Sometimes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Mismatch between Industry Requirements and Third Level Courses: Discussion (20 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I also asked about primary and secondary school curriculum development in the ICT area. Would the witnesses welcome the possibility of introducing a dedicated subject in secondary schools?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: Last year I called for a debate in the House on alternative budget proposals presented by parties, Independent Senators and organisations. The same call should be made this year. It is important we have a constructive debate on the budgetary decisions that will be made. The Cabinet will put the finishing touches to its budget and we all know it is about choices. Choices are open to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

David Cullinane: I thank Senator White for bringing forward this important Bill which we will support, with some conditions. As somebody who has ambitions to be elected to the Lower House, I thank the Minister and his party for making that challenge a little easier for me. If I do get to that House, however, I am not sure I would still want to be there at 70.