Results 22,981-23,000 of 26,766 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: That is why we are here.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: What about the people in the Dáil bar?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, if Senator John Whelan wants to talk about Members being inebriated on the day-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: -----we will have-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: -----no problem whatsoever in having that debate.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I can tell you one thing.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: There were a lot of Senators coming from the Dáil bar into the Chamber late on Thursday night.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: If they want to have that debate, we will have it with them.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The three Sinn Féin Senators were present to debate the Bill, which is what we were elected to do-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: -----rather than sitting in the Dáil bar, which is what many of the Government Senators were doing.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: They then came into the House to vote on important legislation.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I am glad that Senator John Whelan raised this matter.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The people of Ireland now know exactly what some Government Senators were doing on Thursday night-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: -----when we were present to do our job.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: We were not filibustering.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: We were representing the people of the State.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Gilroy did a good job of that for the last three minutes.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: This is filibustering.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 22: In page 9, line 4, after “Water” to insert the following:“including householders, commercial water users and representatives of the trade unions with members in Irish Water”.This relates to the public water forum which the Government seeks to establish. People will be forgiven for being sceptical about this forum, what it will achieve, its...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The Government cannot make up its own mind.