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Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: Well then, that is great. That was the comparison. The mandate that Sinn Féin has now is very-----

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: The Senator is rewriting history from his own perspective.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: And 1916-----

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: I wish to respond to a number of points and to make a few of my own. In the last Northern Assembly elections, more than 63% of the Nationalist community voted for Sinn Féin-----

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: -----and endorsed Sinn Féin and what we stand for and endorsed the record of Martin McGuinness and all those mentioned by Senator Mooney. Today's motion is not about Sinn Féin or any political party, whether Fianna Fáil or any of the Government parties. There is an attempt to overcomplicate the logic or the thrust of this motion. This motion is about extending voting rights to citizens...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: It is quite interesting that several Taoisigh and the President have, on occasion, shook the hands of the captains of All Ireland teams from counties Tyrone, Armagh, Down and Derry and congratulated them on winning the All Ireland final, because they are part of the Irish nation, and yet those very same people are not entitled to vote for the President who shakes their hand. That is the...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: It is the people who are elected who should decide what any convention should look at, not people who happen to sit on that convention. We are the people who are elected and especially those members in the Dáil who should make those choices. The choice open to us is that we can continue to pay lip service to the notion that people who live on the island of Ireland are Irish and are part of...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: -----because they are demanding a simple right to be able to vote for their President. What the Government parties are doing here today is voting down a motion that simply gives expression to that, which tells me that they are not interested in including the citizens of the North in the life of this nation, which I believe is a mistake on their part.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: I move: "That Seanad Éireann: — recognises the need to enhance the democratic process on this island; — recognises the desire to enable Northern participation in the political life of the nation, as an important part of the Irish peace process and a natural outworking of the Good Friday Agreement; — affirms the democratic values of citizenship and equality that define our nation and...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: The Senator should not worry about the cynics. Ignore them.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: We do not support your change. We have proposals of our own.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: Be factually correct at least.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: We will reduce some here as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: The Fine Gael spokesperson on Sinn Féin, Senator Jim D'Arcy, spoke earlier about Haggardstown.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: This same Senator assured the House that Haggardstown is full of republicans. I am confident that Senator D'Arcy, as a republican, will vote for the presidential candidate who believes in the 32 counties of Ireland and not in the candidate who believes in the 22 counties, as his party's candidate does. The Seanad has had a number of discussions on jobs in the last number of weeks. We had a...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: He has been in more boardrooms, in the United States and elsewhere, than any of those Ministers.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: It is high time the Government parties stopped creating fear about jobs and cynically using the fact that so many people are out of work. They should be delivering on the promises they made during the general election campaign to create jobs. They should deliver for those people who were left behind by the previous Government and are now being left behind by the present Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: Despite the banter and excitement that surrounded the request for the Minister for Health to come to the House, the issue is a serious one. Senators from all parties have commended Ministers, such as Deputies Bruton, Coveney and Shatter and others, on participating in frank and forthright exchanges in this Chamber. We merely want the Minister for Health to meet us for a similar discussion....

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: Big Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan.