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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke. Listening to Deputy Cowen, it is unusual to hear Teachtaí making what are programme for Government speeches on the floor of the Dáil even before the programme for Government has been accepted by the membership of their political parties. It is an unusual departure. It is also interesting to hear Deputies MacSharry...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: ...not the line Minister, who probably should be here, but in the short time I have left, I ask him to write to me about that detail because it is important. We may soon have a new Government.Deputy Cowen mentioned retrofitting, which is very important for public and private housing and other private buildings, and the State has both an obligation and a role to play in this area. We now...

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Deputies Collins and Cowen should come clean and stop hiding behind nonsense. It is as plain as the nose of everybody's face what happened here, yet these Deputies are trying to take the Irish people for fools. This is very serious and people want the facts, but they have not got the facts from these Deputies. It is absolutely appalling that Deputies are voting for other Deputies when they...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...of reality to the debate. The budget is every bit as much Fianna Fáil's as it is Fine Gael's. Fianna Fáil cries crocodile tears in the House about what is not in the budget. We heard Deputies Michael McGrath and Cowen talk about the successes they say they secured in the negotiations with Fine Gael's Government but that is what coalition partners do. Fianna Fáil is Fine...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Is this Deputy Cowen's speech for the European elections now?

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

David Cullinane: ...a wider context to truly appreciate why they see this as a real grievance. The Minister of State's opening statement quite rightly outlined the extent of the cuts from 2008 to 2014. Before Deputy Cowen leaves the Chamber, I note that his party was also partly responsible for the cuts and in fact was the architect of many of them. There was the universal social charge, which was a new...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

David Cullinane: ...Fáil and Fine Gael. The victims in this were people struggling with rents. It was they who had to sit back and watch this game unfold over the past 48 hours. I join my colleague in asking where Deputy Cowen is. He has made himself available to every media outlet over recent days to give Fianna Fáil's position on this issue. He was forced into a humiliating climbdown on...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: At least they are committed to doing that, unlike the Senator's sister parties, which failed in Greece. What the Greek people need is not Brian Cowen or anybody else being sent to Greece to heap more misery on them, but debt restructuring and debt reprofiling. That has to be a centrepiece of this deal, which many people would call a diktat because the Greek Government and the Greek people...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

David Cullinane: The Labour Party accused Mr. Brian Cowen of economic treason and is doing exactly the same here today. Labour's way or Frankfurt's way; it is obviously Frankfurt's way.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Second Stage. (26 Jul 2011)

David Cullinane: ...before the general election to the one it has now it is in government. Senator Bacik just complained about being lectured to by Sinn Féin. The same was said by the former Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen, and the late Mr. Brian Lenihan about the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Gilmore, when he accused the then Taoiseach of economic treason for putting taxpayers'...