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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: Has the Minister met officials from local authorities in the past couple of weeks with regard to seeking additional funding for greenway projects?

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 might revert to us about that. I wish to deal again with subvention and the Expressway service. I want absolute clarity so I can fully understand the responses given earlier. Has the Department done any analysis of the viability of the overall Expressway service or individual routes?

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 imagine the witness would accept the Department has a massive role to play in "balanced regional development", which has become a cliché. Does the witness accept that if we are to achieve any sort of balanced regional development, transport is very important?

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: Does it not strike Mr. Doyle as incredible that the Department is not doing an analysis of transport services that exist, even if they are Bus Éireann services, to see if they are economically viable or socially necessary? The witness indicated the public service obligation, PSO, gives subvention to services when there is a social need but they are economically unviable. If the...

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 understand the commercial differences. The Department has not done the analysis on viability or social needs met by the Expressway services. I am asking if the Department has received any reports from Bus Éireann as to the viability or not of the services.

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: So they are not viable.

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 get to the commercial services part. The witness has accepted they are not viable at the moment.

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 can take it that losing money means not viable.

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 brings me to what I mentioned earlier, which is that some of these Expressway routes stop in eight or nine locations where private operators might stop once or twice. The witness mentioned that Bus Éireann presents these routes as commercial services, as it does and which is a matter for the company. He also mentioned that the routes are licensed by the National Transport...

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: It is open to Bus Éireann to apply for a change in the terms of the licence so it does not have to make the same number of stops.

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: Does Mr. Doyle know whether Bus Éireann has made any requests to that effect in respect of any of these routes?

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 am not asking about the routes that were altered. I am asking about loss-making routes that have potential problems. Has Bus Éireann sought a change in the licence from the NTA in any of those instances, only for that request not to be granted?

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 thank the Chair.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputy Michael Quinlivan. I welcome the Bill. I commend the author of the Bill and also the Labour Party for bringing it forward. I take the opportunity to thank the Labour Party Members for the support they gave my party for Bills we brought forward on workers' rights. The Bill rights a wrong that has continued for quite some time. It will allow trade unions once...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the proposal for band 1 status submitted by a school (details supplied); the reason the school was not reassigned band 1 in the recent changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9834/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 828. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans his Department has in place to reflect in law the European Court of Human Rights ruling ECHR 280 (2014) which found that the blanket ban on trade unions within the armed forces is a violation of Article 11, freedom of assembly and association, of the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I wish to extend sympathy to the family of Peter Mathews on behalf of myself and my party. I echo the comments made by my colleague, Deputy Calleary.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I welcome Professor Lane, Mr. Dalton and their colleagues. I would love to say they brought clarity; however, I have more questions now than I had before they came in. I do not think this will be on the 6 p.m. news either. There is concern about measurements, given what happened in recent times when we had headline figures for leprechaun economics which created real problems. There was a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: This bespoke measurement, according to Professor Lane, is "the publication of an adjusted indicator of the size of the economy, GNI*, which would subtract from GNI both the retained earnings of re-domiciled firms and adjust for the depreciation of foreign-owned domestic capital assets". What standing does any of these bespoke measurements have internationally? The international measurements...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: It is not so much that they understand them but how they use the figures and which ones they will use and apply in calculating, for example, the fiscal space.