Results 11,181-11,200 of 26,610 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: We could ask what is the delay in implementing the report, why it has taken three years, and whether there are timelines for delivery of the recommendations contained in the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: It is the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: It was commissioned by the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I thank the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: This matter goes beyond the OPW. It goes back to the discussions we had with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the national children's hospital, although we could not really focus on that. It was a wider discussion on all of the Department's projects. Deputy Catherine Murphy talks about process and fixed-price contracts. I agree with the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: If we come across an overrun or difficulties with any contract that was outside compliance, that is really when we should be going hard on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: The response itself is unsatisfactory, not only in terms of not answering the questions but in the way in which the response came. It was a terrible response. He cites the United Nations, which has no statutory functions at all in the context of data protection. From what I can see, he has ignored the Data Protection Commissioner, who has such functions. When she was here, the Data...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Did we establish which authority was responsible for data protection in relation to free travel?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: The Department is responsible for the holing of data.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: They have to get that information from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport if they want it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Very good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: It will also keep the clerk busy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I also agree with the point made by the Chair. It would be good to have a discussion with the proper Department. Is that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Department of Finance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: That is fine. We need to look at how much money came in and how it was spent. Equally, because of its nature, this was meant to be a tax that would encourage people to change their behaviour by reducing carbon emissions etc. It would also be good to get a sense, from a value-for-money perspective, of whether the tax has done that. The logic of the tax was to reduce people's dependency on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I was not going to ask questions about the number of employees and contract issues, but I was not aware of how large the number of staff who are not directly employed by the organisation was. Will the witnesses give the figure again? I am looking for the number of staff who are directly employed and the number who are on contracts, be they employed by a company to which the NTA is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: How many people are employed directly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Separate to that, how many are on contracts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: There are more people on contracts than are directly employed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Few organisations in the public sector have a ratio that is so high. It seems extraordinary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: But the NTA is not there yet.