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Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: ...again next year. The Government has made a complete mockery of funding the health service. At the same time, as I said, 7,000 posts have been scrapped. Vital front-line posts are now gone, with the withdrawal of job offers from people who acted in good faith, and there are consequences for patients because what I am hearing right across the health services from chief officers to...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: ...Deputy Donnelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, were breathtaking. In response to an emergency in our hospitals, the Minister's biggest complaint was that Sinn Féin did not give him a pat on the back for the good work he believes he has done. That was his chief complaint, repeated time and again in his script. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, was concerned that we...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

David Cullinane: ...by the Minister. Why is that? All we are seeing is waiting lists going in the wrong direction. It is bad enough that 900,000 people are on some form of public health waiting list but 200,000 of those patients, many of them children, are waiting more than 18 months. That is the reality for many people. I do not have time to go into all the promises made as part of the delivery of...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: ...to a Minister where he makes regulations that have never come back into this Dáil for any proper scrutiny or debate. We are seeking proper accountability and transparency. It strikes me there is a pattern from the Labour Party speakers. They come in and spend most of their time attacking the Opposition, looking for a pat on the head from the Minister, the Taoiseach, the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: We will pat you on the back.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...for those who need more affordable childcare or for working families who work hard and want a break. It does nothing to solve the problems for the vast majority of families. Nevertheless, each time, Fianna Fáil comes to the Chamber and pats Fine Gael on the back, and vice versa, as we saw the Minister do today, saying what a great job the other has done. What has the Government...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: The first thing we should do is not play party politics with this issue and start patting ourselves on the back. It is the secretaries and caretakers who have been pushing this issue for years. Admittedly, we have been a conduit and the trade union in recent times has robustly taken on this issue but this is only the start of a process. There is a long way to go. I wish all the sides...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: ...better. The Taoiseach's naive guarantees in December have damaged his credibility. He allowed himself and the Government to be led by the nose by Theresa May, with the Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, being patted on the back by Boris Johnson as the best boy in the class. Will the Government finally accept the reality that there was no cast-iron guarantee in December? Will the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2017)

David Cullinane: We are joined from the Comptroller and Auditor General's office by Mr. Andy Harkness, director of audit, and he is accompanied today by Paula O'Connor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Pat Deering, Mary Lou McDonald and Alan Kelly. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 30 November 2017. Are they agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising? As there are...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: ...create jobs but how unfair the adjustment has been on many working families. Despite what we will get from the Government over the next few days, statement after statement, Minister after Minister patting themselves on the back, commending themselves on what a great and wonderful job they think they have done, many families who do not feel any recovery and are living in poverty will be...

Seanad: Public Service Management (Transparency of Boards) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Jun 2014)

David Cullinane: ...Senators with an opportunity to discuss this important issue. In January 2013, several news outlets ran with the story that the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, had appointed Mr. Noel Ward, a former constituency organiser for the Minister, to the board of Ordnance Survey Ireland. Mr. Ward was appointed although he did not apply for the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

David Cullinane: ...members of the Committee of Public Accounts and the committee itself, which is very unhelpful in its handling of the penalty points issue. The Minister for Justice and Equality and the Ministers, Deputies Pat Rabbitte and Brendan Howlin, the three Ministers who have been most critical of the committee, need to realise the only reason it was investigating the issue in the first instance...

Seanad: Electricity Transmission Network: Motion (13 Nov 2013)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte's return to the House to again discuss an issue raised on the Adjournment some weeks ago. I commend Senator Rónán Mullen for the pragmatic wording of the motion which should be supported. As I said previously, I have no objection in principle to the Grid Link project for the south-east or other EirGrid projects across the island. It is...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: ...in this State or directly from the Tory party in the North. Our position is consistent. We will protect low income families. We will protect middle income families. Unlike the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, who talks about flags of convenience for those Labour Party Senators who have a conscience, a man who is under more flags-----

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: ...need to be scrapped. We have the super junior Minister allowance of ¤34,000, and that should also be scrapped. We know that several ministers, including Deputies Joan Burton, Brendan Howlin, Pat Rabbitte, Richard Bruton, Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney have breached the ¤90,000 cap on the salaries of their special advisers. The mobile phone allowance payable to Members every 18 months...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

David Cullinane: ...gone after carers, people with disabilities and ordinary working families who are suffering and struggling. The comment by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, in respect of the election commitments given by his Department were nothing short of appalling.

Seanad: Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (23 May 2012)

David Cullinane: ...have constantly made the point there must not be a hierarchy of victims. There were people who suffered and died at the hands of republicans. They, too, deserve answers, just like the family of Pat Finucane and the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. We still await inquiries into these matters. We know the Finucane family has worked very closely with the Taoiseach but it is...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

David Cullinane: ...an election. It is appalling. Two of my party colleagues from Waterford, who are also colleagues of the Leader of the House and who are from his city, are among those being detained. Councillor Pat Fitzgerald from County Waterford was one of those aboard the plane this morning. His wife was in contact with me to say that they were not allowed to board the airplane. They were asked...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

David Cullinane: .... I received the e-mail and I have also been in contact with the families of some of those people who are being held by Israel. Two Sinn Féin councillors, Councillor John Hearne and Councillor Pat Fitzgerald, were on the boat and are now being held captive by Israel. Others being held include a former Fianna Fáil Deputy, a former rugby international player and a SIPTU official. These...

Seanad: Smithwick Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (1 Jun 2011)

David Cullinane: ...has consistently supported the Saville inquiry into Bloody Sunday and the inquiry into the murder of Rosemary Nelson. Sinn Féin also gives ongoing support to the family of the murdered solicitor, Pat Finucane, and the families of the victims of the Ballymurphy and Springhill massacres. In 2008, Sinn Féin supported the unanimous request of the Oireachtas to allow independent...