Results 19,541-19,560 of 26,430 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I thank the Chair.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (23 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: 90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in County Waterford assigned to the drug squad for the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017, by rank, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9187/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (23 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: 330. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the number of acute beds in the department of psychiatry at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9315/17]
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I thank all the Deputies who made contributions, including the Ministers and Teachta Niall Collins, whose views I strongly disagree with. I will get to some of that in a moment. I thank the Deputies of Independents 4 Change, the Labour Party speaker and other Independents who spoke in favour of the Bill. I also thank my colleagues in Sinn Féin who made contributions and will be...
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: With respect, the Acting Chairman pulled me up on naming names but he did not pull up-----
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: The Acting Chairman did not do that.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: It is nonsense from the Deputy.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I thought we were not supposed to name names or is that just bias?
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: There should be some consistency.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Did the Deputy get his briefing from the Minister?
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, that is absolutely inappropriate.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I am asking the Deputy to withdraw that.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Any employer is entitled-----
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: ----- to defend themselves at the Workplace Relations Commission, just as an employee is entitled to have a case heard.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: For the Deputy to call into question the integrity of my party and anybody associated with my party because of an ongoing case is despicable on his part. It shows his absolute lack of interest in procedures.
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with a number of other Deputies. James Connolly once famously said that the cause of labour is the cause of Ireland and the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour. He recognised that a republic is only a republic in name if it does not vindicate the rights of citizens. Central to this tenet is the vindication of the...
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: They are refused access to trade union officials. This is completely unfair. As I speak, the Mandate trade union and its members are in conflict with Tesco. The dispute is about an attempt to change the terms and conditions of employment unilaterally for pre-1996 workers. This is rightly seen as the thin end of the wedge. It is also part of an attempt by the company to break the union as...
- Topical Issue Debate: Psychological Services (22 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I ask that the Minister with responsibility would forward a written response to us.