Results 23,101-23,120 of 26,610 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: The Acting Chairman is always very helpful. I accept that and I am going to conclude by reminding the Minister of State that it is possible to reform this House and to win popular and public support for a properly reformed Seanad. The question is, when are we going to get it?
- Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (12 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I wish to make a brief comment with the indulgence of the Chair and the Minister. As I said, Sinn Féin is opposed to the Bill for a number of reasons. First, it is a little disingenuous to say the Bill is not about the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland being able to operate as a university outside the State and that this provision is open to all education providers, as I do not...
- Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (12 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Perhaps the Minister might respond.
- Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (12 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I was hoping to comment on the previous sets of amendments but unfortunately I could not get in. I can deal with the substantive point in this amendment if that is okay.
- Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (12 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Yes. Senator Reilly has already articulated Sinn Féin's opposition to this.
- Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (12 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Perhaps if the Leas-Chathaoirleach moved to the next amendment.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, I thought it was to move from a Government speaker to an Opposition speaker. The Acting Chairman allowed an Independent Senator, not part of any independent grouping, to speak ahead of me.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: The list is wrong.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I justed want to make sure the Acting Chairman was following due process.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State on the fifth occasion in the lifetime of this Seanad that we have discussed the issues of mental health and suicide. The two, while linked, are separate in many ways and should be dealt with separately, as Senator Mary Moran suggested. Both are complex because, in the case of suicide, many families have been left without answers where there was no previous...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Last week there were a number of calls in the House for a debate on technological universities, not only in the south east but across the State. I support this fundamental change to the provision of university education in the State and on the island. The merger of institutions and applications in that regard, some of which are on shaky ground, highlights the need for a general debate on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: The Bill does not talk about apprentices; it talks about young workers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I know that a number of employer organisations have expressed concern about what they see as the criminal element of those fixed charge notices applying to this area. I do not agree with that, and I hope from what the Minister of State is saying that this will not be the case and that those strong enforcement mechanisms will apply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Are there guidelines from which the court could work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: There is another point about the difference between young and more established workers and different rates of pay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I do not believe that either aspiring to a minimum wage or cutting it will reduce the level of unemployment in the State. It is naive to think that will happen. In fact, it is the reverse. I commend the Minister of State for the opportunity that has been afforded to us to engage in pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. This is important because of a series of constitutional challenges in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, I remind the Chair that there is an agreed rotation of speakers from Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and then others. I am not sure why we have by-passed that today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: It is all right.
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I support the thrust of the Bill. As previous Senators have said, there are a number of technical concerns that we have and that various organisations have raised with us. I will raise them again and will try to correct some of them on Committee Stage. This is largely a technical Bill, but it contains some important elements that need to be examined as they will have a significant effect...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.