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Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 75: In page 76, line 47, to delete ?¤3,000,000? and substitute ?¤1,000,000?.I apologise but I was thrown by the other amendments requiring a seconder. As this is the one I dealt with prematurely earlier, I simply await the Minister's response.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: The Minister is being somewhat disingenuous with regard to the logic of this amendment. As I noted earlier, Sinn Féin believes that the current ceiling is too high and too loose. This amendment is an attempt to avoid the facilitation of recklessness or the rewarding of irresponsible speculation. That is the logic of this amendment and while I acknowledge the Minister has a point with...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 84: In page 89, to delete lines 38 to 49 and in page 90, to delete lines 1 to 29 and substitute the following: ?(6) Without prejudice to the generality of section 96 or subsections (1) to (3) and subject to sections 99 to 101, and having regard to section 86(6), a Personal Insolvency Arrangement may include one or more of the following terms in relation to the secured...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: I strongly concur with and support the call by Senator van Turnhout for a debate in this House on forced labour and the exploitation of workers, including migrant domestic workers. I recently attended a conference in UCC on this issue. It is an important issue on which we should have a debate. We should also have a debate on parties? election promises. Election manifestos are put before...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: When those promises are broken-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: When those promises are broken, people become disillusioned with politics generally. It was suggested that Members might live in a bubble. Many people outside the House are not just disillusioned with politics, but feel betrayed by parties for which they voted in the hope that those parties would protect them. The clear pre-election promises made on child benefit and college fees have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: It is a compromise-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: I like it, but it is a compromise of broken promises, as both Fine Gael and the Labour Party have broken promises. The Sinn Féin Party will table a motion of no confidence in the Dáil against the Government. I believe the Government has let down the people of the State on the three critical issues that face the State: to have a proper and sustainable deal on our banking debt-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: -----to have a job strategy that will get people back to work - rather than the Minister for Social Protection cutting people's welfare in terms of secondary benefits such as back-to-school grants, footwear and clothing allowances and child benefit, the Government should be trying to get people back to work; and to have a fair budget. This was not a fair budget. I point out to the Leader...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: I was quite taken by the contributions from all the female Senators, who spoke compassionately and eloquently about the issue of abortion. We could all hear the emotion in Senator Power's voice earlier when she read out the powerful e-mail she received from a constituent, who had found herself in a difficult place like many women do. The reason women are best able to express this issue is...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: I am very pleased, proud and privileged on behalf of the Sinn Féin party to pay tribute today to Trevor. I want to acknowledge and welcome the presence of his wife, Maura, and all of his family and friends who are here and the many who cannot be here. I extend my sympathies to his family and friends at the loss of Trevor. I am a young Senator and it is my second year in the House. While I...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: Neither I nor anyone else in Sinn Féin need inform Labour Party Members with regard to what is bad about the budget. They will be very clearly informed in this regard by their constituents and those who will be affected by this, the second tough, gruelling austerity budget to be introduced by Fine Gael and the Labour Party. No one in Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil or any other party will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: The Government has introduced a property tax which does not take account of people's ability to pay. The spokesperson of the liberal wing of the Labour Party, Senator Bacik, almost wears as a badge of honour the fact that the Government has not increased income tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: Senator Bacik has referred to the new property tax as progressive.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: This is a most regressive form of taxation.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: Senator Bacik is a liberal and she cares nothing for social issues or for families which are going to be hammered by this property tax. This is an unfair tax which is not linked to people's ability to pay.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: It is telling that we have-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: Does the Leader agree that the property tax is unfair?