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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of eliminating the lowest grade on the pay grade scale across the public sector and merging those on the lowest grade on the pay grade scale with the second grade on the pay grade scale; the cost of eliminating the first and second lowest grades on the pay grade scale across the public sector and merging those on the first...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Management Structures (2 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 28. To ask the Minister for Health if the new policy strategy and integration unit established within his Department will support in its work the new Oireachtas committee that will be established to develop cross-party consensus on the future of the health service over ten years, as per the programme for Government and Government approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13704/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (2 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 106. To ask the Minister for Health how the ongoing work being conducted by his Department and the Economic and Social Research Institute's three year programme on health reform will support in its work the new Oireachtas committee that will be established to develop cross-party consensus on the future of the health service over ten years, as per the programme for Government and Government...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (2 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of his commitment to retaining Irish Water in public ownership, and given this, if he will introduce legislation to amend section 4 of the Water Services Act 2013, which refers to the subsidiary, Irish Water, as a private company limited by shares. [14067/16]

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: And after all of the Labour Party's time in government.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Is this the Deputy's Bobby Ewing moment?

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: It is a shame on Deputy Kelly.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: The Deputy should hang his head in shame. He has some brass neck.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Look at the Deputy now. He is as-----

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: They did not vote for the Labour Party.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: The Deputy is not with his cumann now.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: They made plenty of interruptions in the past.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Not too long.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Last Thursday or Friday, when I first saw the motion tabled by the Labour Party it was as if the past five years had not happened. We have had a disastrous Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. We know from all of the reports and evidence from the OECD, EUROSTAT, TASC and all of those who have examined income inequality and poverty levels that income inequality has increased. Inequality rose...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: It is an acknowledgement of all of the things it failed to do during the past five years. I accept that the Labour Party has at least used its motion to outline all of these failures. This must be said because the Labour Party cannot come to the Chamber, present the motion and pretend the past five years did not happen. There is a need to strengthen workers' rights. We brought forward...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I agree with the points made by Deputy Eamon Ryan regarding the immediacy of the committee's work in the context of budget 2017. While we need to inject ourselves as quickly as possible, in some respects that is a separate issue at this point. We have five weeks within which to agree a framework, which will require an awful lot of work. I welcome the establishment of this committee, which...