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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Almost every day last week Senator Craughwell and others tried to move a motion he placed, democratically, on the Order Paper. He gave the Minister every opportunity. He did not push the matter to a vote and yet she was not able to come into the House to discuss these changes. This will drive women out of work. That is the core of the argument against these changes. They will not...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Can the Leader tell us when the civil debt Bill will come before the Seanad? It has worked its way through the Dáil this week. This is the fourth item of legislation this Government has brought forward regarding water charges. Essentially, that is what the civil debt Bill is about. The Minister is dressing it up as a Bill which allows all utility companies to recover debts but it is...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, to delete lines 19 to 21 and substitute the following:"(2) A person who breaches the Act of 1988 in relation to postcodes shall be liable in damages in tort.".As these are simple amendments, I do not propose to delay the Minister. The purpose of the section is to strip data subjects of their data protection rights with regard to the postcode and remove...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 23, to delete “postcode contractor” and substitute “Data Protection Commissioner”.We believe the Data Protection Commissioner is the appropriate officer to carry out the work of upholding data protection. Capita, the postcode contractor, is not sufficiently distant from its customers and suppliers who are the most likely...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, to the House. He has been spending a great deal of time here. I am not sure if that bodes well for him into the future and I wonder if the Minister of State is trying to send us a message. Nevertheless, it is good to see him here.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I am pleased to hear that. I would like to pick up on the point made by Senator Conway regarding people who have concerns about this legislation allowing it to progress to Committee Stage where the real work is done. There is an element of wisdom in that. The problem, however, is that Members on this side of the House have brought forward several Bills and despite our calls that they be...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: A little bit of practise what we preach might not go astray. However, I take Senator Conway's point. It is well made. I commend the proposer of the Bill for allowing us to have this important debate on bullying and cyberbullying. In 2013, my colleague, Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, tabled a Private Members' Bill in the Dáil entitled the education and welfare (amendment) Bill. This is...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: There is a song in that.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I ask the Leader to arrange for a debate on the need for a debt conference, which we have repeatedly requested in this House.The issue has come into sharp focus again as a result of developments in Greece and the demands being made by the Greek Government. While we all want a solution for Greece, it must be a fair and sustainable one, which will require some level of restructuring of the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will support this Bill and will first refer to the provisions I support. I am in favour of collective bargaining and trade union recognition, which is absent from the legislation. I discussed this issue recently with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, when he introduced the Workplace Relations Bill....

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, to delete lines 20 to 26 and substitute the following:“(c) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “retail credit firm”:“ ‘retail credit firm’ means a person prescribed for the purpose of paragraph (g) of other person who holds itself out as carrying on a business of, and whose business...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his lengthy response. I support the Bill, for which thousands of families have been waiting. Many who are in this situation have campaigned for some time. Others may only be waking up to the reality that their mortgages are owned by venture capitalist firms and they will receive new demands in the post from such companies. I want to put on the record...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: It is.

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. I agree with the previous speaker that it is a flawed project which needs to be re-examined. I will not oppose the Bill on Second Stage because it is important to move on to Committee Stage where we can discuss these issues in more detail. Second Stage is an opportunity for us to present the general concerns about the Bill. The first and obvious...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: I join Senator Mullins in raising the seven mortgage lenders who have been found to be in breach of the code of conduct on mortgage arrears following expressions by the Central Bank of Ireland. As we know that framework was introduced in 2011 to ensure that the banks would play ball with the almost 120,000 residential mortgage holders who are in arrears. Despite the concerns expressed by...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

David Cullinane: Here we go again with Government Ministers and Senators passing the buck to the Central Bank and others. Of course they have a role and they have expressed clear concerns about the breach of fair process, which was the very essence of the CCMA framework in the first place. Today The Irish Timesreported: "Lenders also continued to seek additional ad-hoc payments from borrowers on top of...