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Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Ports Development (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The figure he quoted for the fall in the Port of Waterford's share of the lift-on lift-off market from 20% in 2001 to 5% in 2012 is very stark. It is a remarkable drop. There have been independent and in-house reviews of the port which will make recommendations. There will be a need for the Government to support development at the ports at...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Ports Development (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am looking for an update from the Government on what plans it has to upgrade development at the ports at Rosslare Europort and Waterford. It is coincidental that today we heard a very positive announcement regarding the building of a state-of-the-art facility by Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Limited at Belview, which is around the Port of...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome a fellow Munster man, Mr. Seán Kelly, as I am from Waterford. I agree with much of what Senator Sean D. Barrett said on the lethargic approach of the European Union to a range of issues since the economic crisis. We have seen inconsistences in its approach to banking. We in Ireland were forced not to burn the bondholders but Cyprus was forced to burn the bondholders as well...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Seán Kelly, MEP (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I think the Deputy means far right.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Be quiet.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I warmly welcome the major jobs announcement for Waterford and the south east, which has just been announced. Glanbia Ingredients Ireland is to build a state-of-the-art facility in Belview on the Waterford-Kilkenny border. The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister said 1,600 jobs will be created in the south-east region. There will be 450 construction jobs and 1,600 part-time and...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: In 2009 the then workers at Waterford Crystal received the news that they were going to lose their jobs because the company was insolvent. Hundreds of jobs were eventually lost. The former workers also discovered, to their horror, that the vast majority of their pensions were gone. This was because the company pension scheme was insolvent. Most of them received between 18% and 28% of...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: The Irish people have endured a great deal of pain in recent years. Although they have suffered under austerity and all the tough and gruelling budgets of the past five to six years, they have done so against a backdrop of €90 billion of taxpayers' money going into the banks in some form, shape or fashion. More than €30 billion of the money that went into the banks went to...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I do not believe it is about expressing confidence in the bank. This is about the State showing dissatisfaction with the enormous levels of salary that are still being paid to people who are part of the problem. They were part of it in the first place and remain so. This is a person who showed he was inflexible and intransigent when he attended an Oireachtas committee. He showed the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: -----to stand up for the people of this State. It is shocking that the Minister for Finance will not use his vote, the 15% shareholding which belongs to the people of this State, and stand up for the majority of people in this State who will not agree with the huge salary that will be signed off on today by the banks. Although I agree it is important that ordinary shareholders show...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: -----it is also important that the State shows social solidarity and the Minister should do exactly that today.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Job Losses (23 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his lengthy and comprehensive response. This is an important issue for the people of Waterford but nobody in that county blames the Government for the fact that this company made this decision. We all accept that the company took a decision to consolidate its business in this State, whether we like it or not. That decision is very unpalatable for the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Job Losses (23 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. He will be aware that, unfortunately, Diageo has announced that it is ceasing its operations at the Waterford facility. That news came as a shock to the workforce. Some 35 direct and indirect jobs will go if this closure goes ahead. It also came as a shock to the people of Waterford, a city with 25% unemployment, which is facing an...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I am very pleased that Senator D'Arcy is building bridges of his own across the political divide. I support him in the call he has made for common sense to prevail and for people to stop playing games with this issue which is far too important. I raise the issue of social housing and housing in general. On a number of occasions in this House the Sinn Féin party has raised the issue of...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House. I intended to rise to support the Bill, but having listened to Senators Crown, Norris and Barrett they have challenged my analysis of the proposed legislation. I will listen to the Minister's response before I make up my mind. The Bill has two primary functions, the first is that it provides the Minister with additional powers to combat the promotion of...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: Last week Diageo announced that it would close its manufacturing plant in Waterford city. As many know, there has been a long tradition of brewing in Waterford. The plant mentioned which produces the concentrate, or the essence of Guinness, which is exported all over the world, has been in operation for hundreds of years. Some 35 jobs are to go, while I understand production will be...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: You can take the man out of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: I do not get my information from the dispatches. I get it from ordinary families who arrive in my constituency office every week in ever-growing numbers. These are people who cannot afford to pay their mortgages and are in mortgage distress. It is very clear to those families that this Government does not fully understand the depth of the mortgage distress crisis in this State. The...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

David Cullinane: The Senator obviously does not know what is going on.