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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...

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: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

David Cullinane: I also spoke against this section on Second Stage and indicated that I would oppose it on Committee Stage. The Minister will be aware of my party's opposition to this measure. The latest cut to maternity benefit comes on the back of reduced maternity benefits dating from 1 July this year. As the Minister knows, they were subject to tax. The majority of maternity benefit recipients will...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Jul 2011)

David Cullinane: I call on the Minister to forgive me for repeating some points already made. I was attending a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children so I missed some of the earlier exchanges. Like previous speakers I support the intention behind the publication of the Bill. I commend Senator Leyden on bringing forward the Bill. However, I agree with some of the points of legal concern that...