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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The business should have been ordered in such a way that there would be no gaps.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: There is confusion.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The national development plan seems to be in tatters, going on recent newspaper reports which suggest the level of funding for infrastructural projects up to 2013 will be cut from approximately €40 billion to €23 billion. This means many road and rail projects will be axed. It seems there is no-joined up thinking on the part of the Government and no plan to tackle the scourge of...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Yes.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Will the Minister of State clarify the position with regard to Vietnamese adoptions. If Vietnam signs the Hague Convention will this open the way for families to adopt from Vietnam again? This needs clarification.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I refer to inter-country adoptions.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The banks are very good at that.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: How soon?

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: And compliance on our part.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Those are terrible interruptions.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady. I also welcome the advances made in cancer care in recent years. I fully support the concept of having eight centres of excellence, providing for enhanced services and with multidisciplinary teams in place. We must have these facilities; that is what the experts say. We have heard what Senator Dearey's wife said about multidisciplinary...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Green Party would close down the country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Like Senator O'Donovan.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What about Deputies Devins, Scanlon and Behan?

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Regarding the Poolbeg matter, reports suggest that the Attorney General has advised there is no good reason not to grant the licence. Why is the Minister ignoring the Attorney General's advice? Before the last general election, Fianna Fáil fanned the flames in rural Ireland by suggesting a vote for Fine Gael would be a vote for the Green Party in government. It is ironic that we now have...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Is Senator Ó Brolcháin afraid of what I will say?

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Why would it not be in order?

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Green Party Senators tried to stifle everyone speaking last night, but they did not succeed and they will not succeed now either.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Next time, the people will not be waiting in the high grass for Fianna Fáil. They have cut the grass and are waiting out in the open. It sickens me to see Independents and backbenchers on the plinth and on radio claiming credit for changes in the dog breeding Bill. On Report Stage in this House, the Minister read out the amendments he would introduce to the Bill in the Lower House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: If those are the amendments, they will fall short of what is required. The same people speaking on the plinth will tuck their tails between their legs.