Results 23,201-23,220 of 26,766 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I made my point and I will press the recommendation.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I am. I want to make a brief point.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: No. The reason we have Committee Stage is to tease out all these issues.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I move recommendation No. 7: In page 4, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:"Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 3. Schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 is amended in paragraph 1(4) by deleting the words "Irish Water," (inserted by section 20 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014).".
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I am afraid that has not allayed peoples' concerns as the Minister of State would have, noisily, heard last Wednesday when ten of thousands of people gathered outside Leinster House to voice their frustration in respect of water charges. He referred to the water conservation grant which this recommendation is about. This is not a conservation grant at all - let us be honest about it. Let...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I support the recommendation. As Senator Power has said, any public representative who holds clinics or assists people with social welfare applications or applications for payments will inevitably have dealt with people who have been waiting for very lengthy periods for their appeal to be heard. Part of the problem is a communication failure between the appeals office and the person...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I move recommendation No. 3: In page 4, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 3. Section 290(3)(c) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 is amended by the insertion of “the Parish of the Travelling People or any credit union for the purposes of the Lough Payment Scheme, or” before “any other body...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: We are not.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: No. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: They voted for it. We voted against it.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The Senator's colleagues voted with the Fine Gael councillors.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: It was not my intention to get involved in a party political debate, but we are here to scrutinise legislation and also to hold the Government to account. Very often when Ministers are trying to bat away criticism, the notion of a party political debate is peddled. It very much depends on what side of the Chamber one is sitting on.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: We have a job to do, to critique the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014 and to critique the Government's approach to social welfare. This recommendation goes back to 2011 and asks for a review of all the reductions that have taken place and the impact they have had on citizens. The Minister of State said in response that getting people back to work is the best way to lift people...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: This is a clever amendment and one that should be supported, although it states that we should review all the social welfare cuts since 2011. I would go back to 2007 because there were many cuts made by the previous Government as well-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: -----but I fully accept the thrust of the amendment which I support. I said on Second Stage when the Minister was in the House that the test of any Government is whether, at the end of its term, it has increased or reduced poverty and inequality. In terms of all the reports, even the right wing ESRI, which is so-called independent, has indicted the Minister's Government with regard to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: It is obvious that the Government has a contempt for the Seanad. We have seen it several times attempt to trample all over the rights of the Seanad, one of the institutions of this State. We saw it with the botched referendum campaign. We saw it with the botched by-election campaign. This was one they could not lose but they did, and Senator Craughwell is sitting here today as a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: No.