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Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It is not real reform. The Constitutional Convention is meeting this weekend and may discuss the future of the Seanad. The Taoiseach and the Oireachtas should give the Constitutional Convention a fresh mandate to properly examine Seanad and Dáil reform in the wake of the referendum results. We should properly ventilate all of the ideas and return with proposals, and then the...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. I will be supporting the Bill. Senator Gilroy pointed out that it should have been in place a long time ago. It should not have taken so long for the previous Government to put this in place and it took the current Minister to introduce the Bill, which is a necessary development in the delivery of health services in the State. Almost all Members have...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I again call on the Government, through the good offices of the Leader, to halt the establishment of Irish Water and abandon its regressive policy on water provision. We have heard in recent days from experts and economists that there could be an overspend of €2 billion on Irish Water. It was quite obvious to Senators on this side of the House when we were discussing the Water...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I join Senator Ivana Bacik in commending those who held the event in the Seanad Chamber today to commemorate the anniversary of the 1918 general election. I look forward to the day when we have a similar result. The Leader might know Waterford was the only constituency in 1918 which did not return a Sinn Féin Deputy. I hope to rectify this in the near future.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It is a work in progress.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the referral of the penalty points issue by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. It took 14 months for this to happen and the Minister must explain why it took so long for the issue to be referred to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. In the past 24 hours a number of Ministers have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Discussion (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I did not say it was unsuccessful. I said it has not met its targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Discussion (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It was broken down to yearly targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Discussion (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I asked about two Bills as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Discussion (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I asked why it was dropped from the review. The 50% target was in the original Action Plan for Jobs. Why was it dropped from the review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Discussion (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It has simply been dropped. It is not there now. It was in the original document but not in this one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Discussion (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Secretary General and his team. There is no doubt that there has been good news on the jobs front in recent times. That the live register figures have dropped from 15.1% at their peak in 2012 to 12.8% is good news. However, it appears there is too much of a focus on the percentages. It seems to be a case of "never mind the quality, feel the width", which seems to permeate...

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House and the publication of the Bill which allows for the holding of the European elections. I wish the best of luck to all the candidates who will contest the forthcoming European and local elections. I was a European election candidate in 2004 and my wife contested the European elections in 2009, so I know what it is like to be a candidate. The...

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I very much hope that when the Minister takes up that big job, he will remember all those who campaigned very vigorously to have a Commissioner. The Minister campaigned in favour of the original Lisbon treaty and could have unwittingly done himself out of a job, but that is a different story. We do not have 11 MEPs in Ireland. We will have 14 because there are three in the North.

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: They are Irish MEPs. One of the good things to happen in recent years is that there is much greater all-island co-operation between our MEPs on very important issues such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy and those areas. We need to consider these issues from an all-island perspective and not in the partitionist way that some do. The European Union faces big...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Community Care Provision (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I welcome the fact that it is on the face of it good news that the Government is looking at a 100-bed unit in the grounds of St. Patrick's Hospital. It is also good news that it is part of the HSE's viability plan and a design team will be put in place, which will allow for statutory approvals and tender documents to be completed. The plan then goes on to say that this will be part of a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Community Care Provision (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I have raised this matter on the Adjournment on a number of occasions because it is important for the people of Waterford city and for older people. I am looking for an update on what is being done to meet the need for additional community nursing beds. I am specifically interested in the plans to build a new specialist community nursing unit in Waterford city. I will set out the history...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: I thank and commend Senators Daly, Ó Murchú and Byrne, who is not present, on drafting the Bill and on using their Private Members' time to raise this important issue and to allow us to debate it. I also welcome members of the deaf community to the Gallery. In recent months and years, there has been a great deal of discussion on citizens' rights and sovereignty for a variety of...

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: Is it right or wrong? Was it justified?

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: It was not my decision, I voted against it.