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- International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)
David Cullinane: Fundamentally, this is a debate about sovereignty. It is about how sovereign states manage migration. It is, and should be, for every nation to determine its own migration and border policies. Ireland should have its own rules-based system that needs to be fair, efficient and enforced. A one-size-fits-all approach to migration throughout the European Union is not the best solution for...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)
David Cullinane: 728.To ask the Minister for Health the number of authorised officers currently available for assisted admissions within the health service in Waterford city and county; if he considers this an adequate number; the steps he will take to ensure there is an adequate number of authorised numbers available in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24901/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)
David Cullinane: 729.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of authorised officers for the purposes of assisted/involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 2001 currently within the health service, by county and by CHO, in tabular form. [24902/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Delays will mean it is more costly-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Give over.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We are holding you to account.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: How pathetic is that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: That is pathetic.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Back off would be more like it. That is what the Government wants. This is crazy stuff.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: That was really pathetic.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: You have tried that tack before.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: What are you doing about it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We did not ask you to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: They have run rings around you.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I just want to make a number of remarks because this is a groundbreaking Bill. We have been through a very lengthy process and I genuinely do not believe that this Bill has been rushed or that we have done anything in haste. We have done our job very diligently. There was a lot of pre-legislative scrutiny. In fact, there was an Oireachtas committee that did a huge amount of work on this...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 52: In page 85, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(c) The giving by a medical practitioner of genuine medical advice.”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: These amendments provide beyond reasonable doubt that a medical professional will not be criminalised for offering genuine medical advice. There is a difference between amendment No. 51 and amendment No. 52. My amendment No. 52 permits the courts to exercise reasonable discretion in determining this, and I think that is a better course of action. I understand the logic of amendment No. 51...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I know it all.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We discussed this earlier, perhaps with officials or the Minister. When concerns were raised, that was the exact advice we got - that the Bill already deals with this. That there is now legal advice that says, hang on a second, we may well need to do something else, means we have to do it. All of those scenarios the Minister pointed out could happen. We always look at worst-case scenarios...