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Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: We will see is right. That is what history is, really.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: He has done so much to restore our reputation abroad which was destroyed by the previous Government, a point about which Members opposite do not like hearing.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Members opposite should listen to it more often. Senator O’Donovan made points on medical cards and boarded-up social housing. A new scheme is already in place for local authorities with €20 million allocated for such social housing units to be repaired for much-needed rehousing of people. Senator Mullins and Noone raised the issue of personal attacks on social media against...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Like many Members I join in the congratulations to all those who were successful in the various elections, both local, national and European, and commiserate with the people who lost out, many of them having given 20 years or 30 years of loyal service to the people they represented. We should think of them as well today. Senator Darragh O'Brien raised the question of an electoral commission....

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: It is to conclude at 5.30 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: May I make a correction? We will adjourn the debate on the Bill at 5.30 p.m. and come back to it if the debate has not concluded.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I advise the Senator not to go there.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: The Order of Business shall be No. 1, State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 3.45 p.m. and conclude not later than 5.30 p.m., and No. 2, Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013 Dáil – Second Stage, to be taken at 5.30 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Senator Mullins commented on Construction 2020, an exciting scheme which the Government announced yesterday. The strategy is about helping families to find affordable quality homes and getting highly-skilled construction workers back on-site. It is not about a return to the non-existent regulation and developer-driven agenda and the dangerously unbalanced tax base we have seen in the past....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Senator Marc MacSharry raised the question of a newspaper report, the truth of which I cannot verify. Personally, I believe it is wrong that anybody on a salary of €164,000 should get additional funding, irrespective of what it is, from the State. I have asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, to come to the House to address the matter but he is not...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: The Order of Business is No. 1, Central Bank Bill 2014 - Second Stage, to be taken at 11.45 a.m., with the contributions of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator and his colleagues were talking about it costing between €500 and €600.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Who will be smiling then?

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Your colleague?

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Ar 10.30 maidin amárach.

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the Minister of State. I am pleased to support the motion to establish an Oireachtas committee to inquire into the banking crisis. Such an inquiry is long overdue. The Government is still picking up the pieces of a disastrous banking crisis and the disastrous response to it. The people have endured a deep recession as a consequence which has been very difficult, demanding and...

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I move: (1) That, having regard to section 12 of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013 and Standing Order 103C, a Select Committee be appointed, to be joined with a similar Select Committee of Dáil Éireann to form the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis, to develop a relevant proposal for conducting a ‘Part 2...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: On the delays in houses being allocated, I would agree totally that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: I would agree totally that local authorities should be able to allocate houses as a matter of urgency within a very short period of time. We have seen what happens when they are left for two or three weeks, because it then goes on for longer and longer. I would agree about the need for some policy. A large amount of money is being put in place by the Government in order to refurbish houses...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Maurice Cummins: Senator Healy Eames also raised the matter, as I mentioned, and I also addressed it yesterday when she raised it on the Order of Business.