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Seanad: Company Closures: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: Senator Landy should learn how the system works.

Seanad: Company Closures: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: It is.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: There are still millionaires out there. At least the Senator recognises that. She might support our wealth tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: We should spend money on hospitals, not on paintings.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: Despite the banter and excitement that surrounded the request for the Minister for Health to come to the House, the issue is a serious one. Senators from all parties have commended Ministers, such as Deputies Bruton, Coveney and Shatter and others, on participating in frank and forthright exchanges in this Chamber. We merely want the Minister for Health to meet us for a similar discussion....

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: Big Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

David Cullinane: It is very important.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: The Fine Gael spokesperson on Sinn Féin, Senator Jim D'Arcy, spoke earlier about Haggardstown.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: This same Senator assured the House that Haggardstown is full of republicans. I am confident that Senator D'Arcy, as a republican, will vote for the presidential candidate who believes in the 32 counties of Ireland and not in the candidate who believes in the 22 counties, as his party's candidate does. The Seanad has had a number of discussions on jobs in the last number of weeks. We had a...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: He has been in more boardrooms, in the United States and elsewhere, than any of those Ministers.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: It is high time the Government parties stopped creating fear about jobs and cynically using the fact that so many people are out of work. They should be delivering on the promises they made during the general election campaign to create jobs. They should deliver for those people who were left behind by the previous Government and are now being left behind by the present Government.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: I move: "That Seanad Éireann: — recognises the need to enhance the democratic process on this island; — recognises the desire to enable Northern participation in the political life of the nation, as an important part of the Irish peace process and a natural outworking of the Good Friday Agreement; — affirms the democratic values of citizenship and equality that define our nation and...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: The Senator should not worry about the cynics. Ignore them.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: We do not support your change. We have proposals of our own.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: Be factually correct at least.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: We will reduce some here as well.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: The point is that it is their right. Is Senator Harte saying that it is not their right? He is talking nonsense.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: Over 60% of the Nationalist people of the North voted for Sinn Féin in the last Assembly elections. They gave Martin McGuinness their endorsement so Senator Harte should not give us any nonsense about elections. If we are going to listen to nonsense, I must respond to it.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

David Cullinane: Senator Harte is not talking facts.