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Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: Positivity does not feed anybody.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: The Minister of State might name those who were robbing banks. Let him name names.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: The Senator should look at the Fianna Fáil Senators - that is where the problem lies. They made the mess, not us.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: Three years.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: If there was a prize for brass neck of the year, the Minister of State would win it hands down based on his speech here this evening. The first line of his speech was correct, but the rest was a load of rubbish. He was right when he said at the start that the people of Ireland have suffered as a result of the banking crisis.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: Let us remind ourselves how the people have suffered. The Minister of State should listen and take his medicine.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: The Minister of State is well able to give it out, but he should listen now and take his medicine. Nobody from Sinn Féin interrupted the Minister of State or anybody else. He should sit and listen and pay us the same respect we paid him. Let us remind ourselves of the suffering Fine Gael and its colleagues and the previous Government has imposed on the people of this State: the...

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: ----- water charges; and property tax. This is the suffering that has been inflicted on the people of the State by the Government. The Minister of State stated correctly that this suffering is being endured by people because of the banking crisis. However, the bankers have not suffered at all. Let us remind ourselves what the previous Government and the current Government did to bail out...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, to the Chamber. I commend Senator Barrett for bringing forward this Bill and allowing us to again discuss the future of the Seanad. Since the referendum of October 2013 we have not had any real reform of the Seanad, which is what people voted for when they went to the polls in the Seanad referendum. I will not be supporting this Bill. Prior...

Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. On behalf of the Sinn Féin party, I welcome the publication of this Bill and commend it to the House and to all Senators. It is, in our view, a vital protection of public health. I will refrain from taking the opportunity to discuss cancer services in the south-east, including Waterford, because I believe the Minister is going to be in Waterford...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)

David Cullinane: On 1 May I launched my party's workers' rights proposals to coincide with International Labour Day. One of the things for which we have called consistently and which is also called for in the document is collective bargaining legislation and trade union recognition. We cannot have collective bargaining in the State without trade union recognition. The announcement made yesterday was not...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)

David Cullinane: I refer to the privatisation of bus routes across the State. I have raised the issue a number of times on the Adjournment in past months but have not received a satisfactory response from a Minister. The National Transport Authority is planning to privatise, or put out to tender as the Minister puts it, 10% of bus routes across the State. The routes will be sold to private operators who...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to take part in this debate and welcome the individuals from the Centre for Independent Living who are present in the Visitors Gallery. It is a sign of how far we still need to go that this Chamber can only facilitate a very small number of people who have motorised vehicles or a wheelchair. We still have a long...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: Vote Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: It is outrageous for Senator Bacik and for the Labour Party to claim that the water tax is fair. It is anything but fair. The vast majority who will have to pay the water tax will see it as unfair. In spite of all the so-called concessions to Deputy Eamon Gilmore and other Labour Party members, the average cost per household for water tax will be €240. That same Government recently...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: If the Senators wish to have a debate on the North of Ireland on any aspect of what happens in the North, let us have that debate. We have called for such a debate on several occasions but the Leader has not arranged it. We would be very comfortable with having that debate with anybody. We are discussing what this Government is doing in this State. The new charges will come to some...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: I think people will understand that clearly when they go to the polls in two weeks. They will be very conscious of the people who brought in those charges and the impact that those charges are having on ordinary working families across the State.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that either the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, or the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, will come to the House to discuss the Cabinet decision to set the charging mechanism for water.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2014)

David Cullinane: He is in fine form.