Results 901-920 of 26,685 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I just want to be clear on the numbers. When Ms Ní Sheaghdha says 2,000 nursing and midwifery posts have effectively been abolished, were they posts advertised and funded by the HSE, or are they posts where line managers would have identified a need?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Okay. I want to come on to SIPTU with regard to other non-nursing grades. Does SIPTU have a number as to how many of those grades would have been abolished, in effect, as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: What I am seeing from Mr. Ginley's opening statement is that the HSE refused to share data with any union as to how many funded and approved vacancies have been suppressed. Mr. Ginley is looking for that information but has not been given it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I want to offer the remaining time I have to Ms Kelleher who is, we are told, a radiation therapist. Ms Kelleher might be able to give us a sense - Mr. Ginley spoke in his opening statement about equipment not being utilised and the shortage of radiation therapists - of what effect the embargo has had on her grade and on the service that her professionals and colleagues provide. I will give...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Through the Chair, I ask that if the unions are telling us they have sought data and they have not got it, maybe we can use our own offices here to request that information from the HSE regarding suppressed posts, unfilled posts and all of the information that the unions have not got. There has not been any engagement. What the witnesses are telling us is that unilateral decisions were made...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve funding for the runway extension at Waterford Airport; if he will set out a timeframe for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39294/24]
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Consider the many debates we have had in this Chamber about vulture funds swooping in and buying up homes, in some cases buying up housing estates and in some cases apartment blocks. We have had debates like this and the Ministers across the Chamber shrugged their shoulders, saying, "What can we do?". Today the Minister has an opportunity to do something and again this week the Government...
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Take it to the Chief Whip.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Take it up with your Chief Whip.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: We agree with you.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I will speak to Financial Resolution No. 2 on the VAT on gas and electricity. Households continue to struggle under the weight of high energy bills. We know that electricity prices over the past three years have increased by almost 50% and gas prices have increased by more than 84%. Irish electricity prices remain among the highest in the European Union. All the while this is happening,...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 137. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA visits with potential employers to each county in each of the years 2013 to 2023, in tabular form. [38732/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA visits with potential employers to each of Waterford’s six local electoral areas in each of the years 2013 to 2023, in tabular form. [38733/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created with the intervention of the IDA in each county in each of the years 2013 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38734/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created with the intervention of the IDA in each of Waterford’s six local electoral areas in each of the years 2013 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38735/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of Recommendation 4.3.b of her Department’s Review of the School Transport Scheme - Report 3, which was to be implemented in time for the school year 2024-2025, and which would allow for the provision of new routes in response to parental demand. [38725/24]