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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I apologise to the Minister of State, but I tabled a number of commencement notices and there was a mix-up on my part. There was one on waiting times at the hospital and another on waiting times for children with disabilities. The latter is the one that was selected for today. I welcome the six additional therapy posts. It is important that children with disabilities have access to early...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I call for a debate on the capital programme announced yesterday by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. It is important from the outset to state any increased capital spending is to be welcomed because we have been starved of capital funding, not only from the Government but from the previous Government because of what happened in the economy.We need to see more capital...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: He is not easily embarrassed.

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister. I commend Senator Crown on bringing forward a Bill that is worthy of support, and I support it. It is not the first time the Senator has brought forward legislation, which is what we are here to do, and I commend him on it. I also commend the Minister and the Government on accepting the Bill and allowing it to go to Committee Stage. Hopefully, it will reach...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: The Minister is wrong and he should inform himself of the facts. I listened to-----

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I am accepting that does happen. The Minister can be flippant about this issue if he wishes but a consultant who works in the hospital was on local radio yesterday and said that this happened not for the reasons given by the Minister, but because of capacity issues in the accident and emergency department. That is what happened and that is the Minister's fault. That is the responsibility...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I am very pleased that Sinn Féin was the subject of criticism from some Members of the House. It shows again that we must be doing something right. We will hear a lot of such nonsense from some Senators in the next few weeks and months. I say to Senator Marie-Louise O’Donnell that in a couple of weeks or months the people will have an opportunity to pass judgment on Sinn...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I have no difficulty with that whatsoever. I support Senator Aideen Hayden’s comments. I could be partisan, but I will not be.She has done great work on housing and has raised many important issues in that regard in this House over recent years. However, we are experiencing what has been described by many organisations as a national emergency. All of us, both in government and...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: Give the information to the PSNI.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: We have been looking to debate this issue and it is peculiar for the Minister to take an important debate and not be here to listen to all the Senators when he hears very partisan speeches coming from the Government side, which is made up of people living in the past. It is unfortunate.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: He never denied that abuse. The Senator should set the record straight and be factual.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: He never denied it.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I will have my chance.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: They are very silly to leave their mobile numbers there.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: Did Senator Paul Coghlan give them a call?

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome this debate and welcome the Minister to the House for this part of the debate. It is not unexpected that many of the contributions that have been made so far, especially from Government Senators, were simply anti-Sinn Féin rants which could have been made ten or 20 years ago-----

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: -----rather than deal with the real issues that affect people in the North. They say that the first casualty-----

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: With respect to the Senator, this is my contribution. They say that the first casualty of war is truth and it would seem that truth is also a casualty in times of peace as well.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

David Cullinane: Senators from Fianna Fáil and from the Government parties have talked about an abandonment of law and order, intimidation, control, criminality, a lack of transparency, insinuations that some political parties are benefitting from crime, and bandit country, when they talk about one of the 32 counties of our country. They make all of these charges. I will read into the record of the...