Results 6,921-6,940 of 26,430 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The Department has an influence on policy in Bus Éireann. It is not fair to say that the Department cannot impose. The Department's comments do carry weight.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Were the Department's comments taken on board? Were they accepted?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Did the Department comment on the Expressway service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: If there were proposals to close the service were any comments made on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I will move on to airports. Can the witness explain for the record of the committee what his role was before he joined the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The CEO of the airport.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Did the witness sign off on reports as the CEO of the airport where he would have lobbied for or requested additional funding for that airport?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Did the witness meet officials in the Department at the time to request additional funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Did he have a view as to what was possible or not possible at that point regarding additional funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: There is an ongoing issue in Waterford, as the witness knows. It is one example of many infrastructural capital projects where requests are being made for additional funding. One is to extend the runway at the airport because it can only cater for a certain type of aircraft. The witness would have signed off on such proposals and lobbied for funding for a runway.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The witness is now the Accounting Officer and the Secretary General who signs off on parliamentary questions, which are submitted on these issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The witness has some oversight on those.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The witness is aware of policy. What I am trying to establish is policy on the one hand, provision of funding to regional airports, which I will get to, and the witness's understanding of that on the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I will refer to one of the parliamentary questions I received back regarding Waterford Airport, and similar parliamentary questions were sent back to Deputies regarding other regional airports. It says: "Development projects at the airports which are designed to expand capacity are a commercial matter for the airports themselves and are outside the scope of the programme." Is that the case,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Mr. Doyle should be clear cut and emphatic, because we need to be clear about what is possible and what is not. Is the witness being clear and emphatic in telling us that it is not possible for the Department to fund a runway extension at any airport?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Is the witness saying that it is not possible to fund it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: A change in national policy or European policy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Could a Minister could change the policy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: On the overall funding for regional airports, how many regional airports are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: That is what I was getting at. We might speak about that before we move on. A change in national policy is only part of the picture because there are European limitations. Can the witness explain what those are?