Results 61-80 of 393 for cork speaker:David Cullinane

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: ...Council at the time and a delegation from the hospital explained to us that if somebody had a heart attack outside of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. anywhere in the south east, he or she would have to travel to Dublin or Cork for an emergency cardiac procedure, or what is known as a PPCI. Two years ago, the then Minister for Health signed off on a second cath lab, but to this day, not one brick has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: ...it, especially the 1,900 people that the HSE had to apologise to. I have practical questions on how this impacts people. An elderly patient who is due for a scope in Bantry Hospital in County Cork contacted me. He was told he had to go for a Covid test and had to travel to Cork city, a two-hour round trip. Yet, there is a testing centre 4 km from him his home. Why is this happening?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: What about the person who had to travel from Bantry to Cork city?

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: ...and victimised worker. Over the past ten years, worker after worker has fought for his or her rights. In terms of legislation, what did the Government do after the Vita Cortex dispute in Cork? Nothing. After Waterford Crystal workers had to take the Government through the courts for their pension rights, no changes were made. Think of workers in La Senza, GAME and Clerys. The...

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: After the last economic crash, a lot of companies treated their workers disgracefully. We saw the Vita Cortex workers in Cork and their heroic struggle and protest. We saw the Waterford Crystal workers, who were dragged through the courts for their pension entitlements. We saw it with Game, La Senza and many more examples of workers who were treated in a shameful way. Then along came...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: ...group said that if someone had a heart attack in Waterford or the south east outside the normal hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, he or she would have to go in an ambulance to Dublin or Cork for emergency cardiac care. There has been an ongoing campaign since then. I have a very straightforward question for the Minister. I raised this matter right through my period in the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: ...the market will take care of itself and that unviable businesses will fail. How does one tell a third-generation family business in the hospitality sector in Waterford, Kilkenny, Monaghan, Dublin, Cork or any other part of Ireland that, through no fault of its own, it must fail[?] I agree with that and I have said for a long time that if we just take a simple market approach, it is not...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: ...issue of the special classes, which I will come back to Ms Griffin on. She stated earlier there was a problem with some schools rolling out special classes and mentioned south County Dublin and Cork. She said that the reasons for that were varied but two of the main reasons, as I think she put it, were a lack of space and a lack of outdoor areas. Were they only identified this year in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (13 May 2020)

David Cullinane: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request was made by Waterford Institute of Technology to purchase the former Waterford Crystal site on the Cork Road in Waterford city to increase the campus footprint; the consideration he has given to such a proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4790/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most recent reports and costings available to his Department with regard to a potential light rail system for Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49484/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: ...the Taoiseach said that deep retrofitting will cost €50 billion by 2050. We have major problems with public transport in rural Ireland and in all of the regional cities outside of Dublin, such as Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway, and many rural towns and villages have no public transport, and the Department is telling us it will ring-fence €70 million. Whoop-de-doo,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...in Dublin city. However, public transport outside Dublin is equally important. The national planning framework in the national development plan envisages regional cities. Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford are four regional cities. The plan envisages increasing the population in those cities, building capacity in them and for them to act as a counterweight to Dublin in terms of more...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...not just in Dublin where there is relatively good public transport but also in areas such as my city of Waterford. Galway has traffic management problems and public transport issues. Limerick and Cork also need the same alternatives.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Cork is the only one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...-state investment mean from the NTA's perspective? What does it mean in the national development plan, and what does it mean specifically for those cities? Ms Graham said there was a focus on Cork, but what about other cities - Limerick, Galway and Waterford - over the next ten to 20 years? What about rural areas? I am referring to rail. I will turn to buses in a moment.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...the following year? They need solutions. My party has for decades called for investment in public transport. We embrace climate action because we know that social justice and climate justice are two sides of the same coin. We want high quality public transport, not just in Dublin but in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Galway and all the rural places in between. We want people's homes to be...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...needs to be joined-up thinking in terms of the national planning framework. I support many elements of Project Ireland 2040, the national planning strategy which looks at regional cities, namely, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. I do not see any evidence of joined-up thinking in the context of having integrated transport hubs or strategies for those cities and looking ahead to 20...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...else and, from a logical perspective, it is not safe that patients who experience an emergency heart attack outside the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday have to travel to either Cork or Dublin for care because it is not provided 24-7 in the south east. A second catheterisation laboratory is being progressed and is at design stage. That it has taken so long even to get it...

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: .... It must also be underpinned by proper spatial planning. If we want to build regions outside Dublin to act as a counterbalance to growth in the capital, we need to focus on regional cities such as Galway, Cork, Waterford and Limerick, all of which need integrated transport hubs. There are parts of Waterford city in which people do not use public transport because it is not as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: ...framework identifies a number of regional cities in which population growth of about 50% to 60% is envisaged. I refer to the map of the regional cities, including Galway city, Limerick city, Cork city and Waterford city. Looking at the divisional boundaries proposed, Galway and Limerick retain their divisions, city and county, and Cork city retains its division but Waterford, which is a...