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Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with my colleagues. I welcome the two Ministers. In the past two weeks, we learned that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Ministers knew that tens of thousands of families with medical cards had been wrongfully charged for nursing home care to which they were entitled. That includes up to 9,000 people in long-term residential disability services who were charged so-called...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

David Cullinane: I commend the Social Democrats on tabling this motion and for giving us the opportunity to discuss this issue. I discussed this privately with the Minister a number of weeks ago and have raised it a number of times in the Dáil and at meetings of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health. In recent months the Minister has given us some assurances, as he would see it, regarding religious...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: From a process and procedures point, there is a commission of investigation in place regarding mother and baby homes. Obviously, it is independent and must do its work. However, there is much public concern about the commission’s refusal to release information to affected family members on where their relatives are buried. I have spoken to some family members who say it is painful...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister to the House and very much welcome the establishment of this independent statutory commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes scandal. We commend the efforts of survivors and campaigners who have helped force the Government to change direction and adopt this position, including the Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors and historian Catherine...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Second Stage (19 Nov 2014)

David Cullinane: I commend the three Senators who introduced the Bill as well as those who have contributed to the debate so far. I also welcome the Minister. Sinn Féin welcomes this Bill and we are happy to support it. We agree with the sentiments of the Adoption Rights Alliance that it represents an important first step towards equality for adopted people in Ireland. For far too long, the Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

David Cullinane: Yesterday I raised the issue of the Magdalen laundries and the refusal of the religious orders to face up to their moral, ethical and financial responsibilities to the women concerned. I also asked the Leader if he would impress upon the Taoiseach the need for him to be more forceful on the issue. I was not at all persuaded by the Taoiseach's contribution in the Dáil yesterday. The...

Seanad: Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

David Cullinane: My amendment is designed to reduce the risk posed by the current arrangements. We believe these HSE terms and conditions are operated in such a way as to prevent midwives exercising their clinical judgment and what we see as their duty of care to mothers and babies. For example, self-employed midwives who feel ethically bound to continue to assist a home birth mother whose labour does not...