Results 23,361-23,380 of 26,610 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: -----but I will outline to the Minister the important issues for people outside this House. They are worried about these issues. They are the people bearing the brunt of losing their medical cards. More people have medical cards because people have lost their jobs and are in low-paid job; that is the reason. The Minister will have to accept the reality that people have lost their...
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I ask the Acting Chairman to remind me what the Bill is about.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: Health. Thank you for that. It is about health care-----
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: -----and this is the Minister for Health.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I have six minutes and I will continue with my contribution.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I will continue with my contribution because the Minister needs to hear what people outside this House are saying and also to hear what people inside the House are saying when he is not here. The reality is that a market-driven approach to health care will not work. Opening it up further to private health insurance will not work. The only system that will work and be fair and equitable is...
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Party I extend my sympathies to Sam's family and welcome his three daughters, Marion, Elaine and Angela, to the Visitors Gallery. I will start by quoting my party colleague and Stormont Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Carál Ní Chuilín, when she spoke about Sam following his death:His artistic contributions served to enrich life not only...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I commend the pre-budget submission launched by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul yesterday, planning for the right kind of recovery. In recent years, we in Sinn Féin have sought, through this House, proper debates on pre-budget submissions and alternative budgets from a range of organisations which, in fairness, take the trouble to make submissions to Government, and also political...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: As I am sure the Leader is aware, a group of consultant psychiatrists in the Carlow, Kilkenny and south Tipperary mental health services have withdrawn confidence in the clinical management of the service which they claim is unsafe. In a letter which was put in the public domain by RTE's "This Week" programme, nine doctors wrote to the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health,...
- Seanad: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I second the amendment. I certainly do not wish to rehash the argument the Minister and I had on Committee Stage. I have put on record Sinn Féin's opposition to this section of the Bill, which we believe should have been a stand-alone section, but I will not go over that ground again. I wish to make the point on Report Stage that it is wrong for Members and premature for the Minister...
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Anne Brasseur (Resumed) (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: I welcome President Brasseur to the Seanad and to Dublin. I hope she enjoys her short stay. I commend her on the work that she is doing in Europe and on her comprehensive contribution to the Seanad today. I wish to pick up on a number of the issues and themes that she raised and to support some of them. The first issue is the rights of the Traveller community in this State. We have a long...
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: No debate is allowed.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: The Senator will vote for the motion.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: We are calling for the motion to be taken with debate for two hours. That is the amendment.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: That is okay. We will support that so.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: It is fair to say that what is happening here today in relation to No. 1 is a disgrace.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: If the Government Senators vote for this motion, each and every one of them should be ashamed of themselves. I would ask not that the Chief Whip would come before the House, but that the Taoiseach would come before the House because he is the person who is pulling the strings here. He is the person who, in the Dáil, stated this was about getting a Government majority. This is about...
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
David Cullinane: The reality is they do not want the banking inquiry to get to the truth.