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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I have tabled this motion on the back of a parliamentary question my party colleague, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, tabled last week on hospital waiting times at University Hospital Waterford. Every time I table parliamentary questions, which I have done since 2011, the waiting times are getting worse. I will not judge the Government on my standards or Sinn Féin...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: With all due respect to the Minister of State, he did not write that script. It was obviously written for him by a civil servant in the Department of Health. It is clearly an inadequate response to the questions I have asked. It talks about reassuring people that waiting list performance will be assessed. It then talks about performance evaluation and the significant potential of the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: What is the Government going to do to reduce waiting times? All the Minister of State has said is that the position will be assessed and reassessed.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: That response is simply not good enough. If that is what the Government is going to do, it will not reduce waiting times at University Hospital Waterford.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: In 12 months time I can guarantee that, if resources are not provided, the Minister will not have met the 18-month and 15-month targets.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: Since our last sitting, SIPTU members in Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus have served notice to strike because of a refusal on the part of management of both companies to discuss the trade union members' concerns about tendering 10% of all contracts for bus services. Bizarrely, while it is proposed to privatise 10% of bus routes across the State, 100% of bus routes in Waterford city are to be...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: On Second Stage Sinn Féin signalled that it would support this Bill but that it had concerns about some provisions that had been raised with it by the Free Legal Advice Centres and Community Law & Mediation. In their joint submission the two organisations called for the deletion of section 4, arguing that it would do nothing but make it more difficult for carers to access income...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I will press the section but will not press it to a vote. All we can do on this one is wait and see how it works out in practice. If it is the case that Free Legal Aid Centres, FLAC, and the other organisations are right, then the Minister of State might be able to give a commitment to revisit the issue. We can give him fair wind on this....

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I support the sentiments of the previous speaker who has articulated the concerns many of us have about this issue. We tabled an amendment on it which has been ruled out of order because it would pose a charge on the Exchequer, which it would, but there would also be a beneficial cost to the State in ensuring lone parents and single mothers and fathers have access to extra hours of work and...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: Will the Leader schedule a debate on the fair deal scheme and the availability of beds under the nursing homes support scheme, which was put in place a number of years ago? Figures released by the Health Service Executive, HSE, to Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, the Sinn Féin spokesperson on health, show that from 2009, when there were 7,850 fair deal beds, the number had...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I got it from the HSE. I will give it to the Senator.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. He has had a long day in the Seanad. I also welcome the Bill. The primary purpose of it is to make provision for the new back to work family support. This is a welcome measure as it allows those moving off social welfare payments to hang on to child-specific portions of social welfare payments for one year and half of it for a further year....

Seanad: One-Parent Family Supports: Motion (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I would warmly welcome as many Fine Gael Deputies back into the Seanad as possible, Acting Chairman.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Supports: Motion (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister and welcome the opportunity to have this debate. It is not often I disagree with Senator D'Arcy and it is not often I criticise him in this House, but I have to say I found his remarks in regard to the Dunnes Stores workers to be quite flippant. The reality is that those workers are at the moment being exploited by an employer and there are many people on low-hours...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witness. I am broadly supportive of the Low Pay Commission but there are fears among some members of the trade union movement and workers that it could depoliticise the issue of low pay on the basis that we have farmed out this issue to a commission to come back with recommendations. What is the view of the witnesses on the fact there is a wealth of reports, from the OECD to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: What is Dr. de Buitléir's view on what constitutes low pay? How many of the people who sit on the Low Pay Commission are on low pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: Would that be a flaw?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 13: In page 14, line 13, to delete "address;" and substitute the following:"address. For the avoidance of doubt, the address given on any letter or other document to the complainant/employee by a respondent/employer shall also be deemed to be an address at which the person ordinarily resides as shall any address specified under the Registration of Business Names Act...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 15: In page 14, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“(3) An unincorporated entity as a respondent which does not register the name of the unincorporated entity under the Registration of Business Names Act 1963 or an incorporated entity which in its dealings with a complainant/employee uses a business name which has not been registered under the...