Results 23,161-23,180 of 26,610 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: The Minister should stop talking about Sinn Féin policy. I asked him about his policies but he is avoiding the questions put to him in that regard.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I asked the Minister about his vision but he is talking about Sinn Féin.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister. It will be interesting to see how he will be judged at the end of his term of office. His predecessors have not been judged very kindly because they did not make the correct policy decisions. It has been continually stated that the Department of Health is a poison chalice. That will only prove to be the case if the Minister makes the wrong policy choices. If,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Zappone hit the nail on the head when she referred to the myriad reasons people protested on Saturday. It is clear that the vast majority were protesting against water charges, Irish Water and the privatisation or potential privatisation of water services, as people see it. However, they also protested at seven years of austerity and all of the cuts that have been foisted on them....
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
David Cullinane: The Government side ignored the amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: There is a court case in that regard, in case the Leader missed it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I condemn the allegations made by a number of Senators in this House that my party and my party's president, as they put it, were engaged in a cover-up of child abuse. I refute those allegations absolutely, as I did on Tuesday. I repeat that if anybody has information about abuse, they should bring that information to the proper authorities. The criminal justice system - An Garda...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: But she seems to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Bacik seems to suggest, as do a number of other Senators in this House, that there is information in their possession in relation to a cover-up of abuse, which is simply not true. Sinn Féin as a party and the Sinn Féin president, Deputy Gerry Adams, were not involved in any cover-up. I make the point again. If anyone-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: We have had a bellyful of Senator O'Brien's false outrage on this issue in the House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: It is false outrage. He is trying to score political points.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I will not be withdrawing any remark-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator O'Brien is the individual who said he was disgusted with a Deputy in the Lower House who quite rightly said on the national airwaves that the way to deal with these issues is not trial by media or trial by politicians such as Senator O'Brien-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: -----but in a compassionate way and in the appropriate way, which is through the criminal justice system. The point I wanted to raise was actually something I raised yesterday, which is the situation in Waterford and Carlow in respect of the proposed merger of the institutes of technology and the issue of university status. When I asked the question yesterday, the Leader was not aware that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I commend Senator Averil Power for her contribution today and the motion being tabled, which Sinn Féin supports fully. It is good that it has received cross-party if not all-party support or all-Member support. To have the number of Senators who have put their names to the motion do so is excellent. We are very proud to be part of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: No. I assume Fianna Fáil will do so. I will allow them to do that, but I am happy the names of the three Sinn Féin Senators are being put to it. I raise the issue of the technological university applications and put a question on that directly to the Leader of the House. As the Leader will know, Waterford IT and Carlow IT are putting forward a joint application for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: I want to support Senator van Turnhout's call for a debate on the Children First Bill, which, as she said, has been stalled on Committee Stage for some time. We supported that Bill when it was passing through this House and the Dáil on Second Stage. It is important it is completed because we need to have robust and fit-for-purpose systems and supports for victims of crime. Senator van...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: If anybody has any information in regard to an alleged cover-up then-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
David Cullinane: -----there is a responsibility-----