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Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Is Fianna Fáil looking for another levy?

Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, TD at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations committed Ireland to reach the UN target of 0.7% of Gross National Product devoted to overseas development aid by 2007, but did not fulfil that promise; notes that then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, TD again...

Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: We are discussing Irish overseas aid.

Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (20 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Will the Senator support the Fine Gael amendment?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: When I went into a reception centre for immigrants in Waterford city yesterday to canvass those in the building and to advise them of their right to register for voting purposes, I was stopped at the door and advised that a letter had been received from Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to the effect that canvassing was prohibited in the reception centre. It seems that public...

Seanad: School Enrolments. (19 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, to the House. Mount Sion primary school was the first Christian Brothers school founded by Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice and the people of Waterford and the entire country are rightly very proud of it. It has provided education for all classes and its commitment to newcomers of ethnic origin is consistent with the work undertaken by its...

Seanad: School Enrolments. (19 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I thank the Minister for replying, but again it is a Pontius Pilate act to say the appeals board is an independent body. As Senator Coffey stated, this is bureaucracy gone mad. The figures are there to support the appeal and, while I expect that when the appeals board gets the further information it requires it will uphold this appeal, it is unfortunate the Minister could not come in and...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I salute the mayor of Limerick and the large numbers of people who live in that city who came out to express their revulsion at recent killings and criminal activities which have occurred there and which were carried out by a small number of criminal thugs. For a number of months, Fine Gael Senators have been calling for strong measures to be taken in respect of gangland crime. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Bring them on.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: They are rushed through the House and if 12 Bills come to the House, they will be rushed through also.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Leader is inviting comment.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: There were not.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator is being unfair.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Name and shame them.

Seanad: Gangland Crime: Statements (30 Apr 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the Minister. I agree with most of what Senator O'Malley said. These thugs will have to be tackled head-on and the full rigours of the law must be put in place to tackle them. The gangland criminals are not just a threat to communities but also to the State and the institutions of the State. They must be treated accordingly. I attended part of the Garda Representative...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Many people who have lost their jobs and fallen behind in their mortgage repayments are being hounded by the banks. They are receiving letters saying their houses will be repossessed. In some cases these letters are being sent to people who are as little as €6,000 in arrears. Would it not be better for the banks to tackle their cronies, the large developers, who owe tens of millions of...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It would be better to tackle these than people who have fallen on hard times through becoming unemployed. We on this side of the House asked for a moratorium on mortgage repayments for people who had become unemployed, and we were told it would be part of the recapitalisation negotiations with the banks. This does not seem to have happened. We need the Minister to come to the House as a...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Phraseology.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Maurice Cummins: That is not correct.

Seanad: Appointments to State Agencies and Public Bodies: Motion (8 Apr 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It is an amendment which can be amended.