Results 7,401-7,420 of 26,430 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Earlier Mr. Mannion said that there was an internal review in Waterford.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Who is doing it? When Mr. Mannion says internal does he mean it is internal to Waterford institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Who is responsible for overseeing the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does the president have a role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does the president have a role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There is an internal review in an institute and the president does not play a role in the internal review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Is it more appropriate, if the president had a shareholding in these companies, that he or she would not play a role in the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Would Mr. Mannion be satisfied with an internal review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I allege no wrongdoing whatsoever and I have no difficulty in encouraging researchers to have a role in setting up companies, such as spin-out companies. The information I have been given is that the president of the institute has a role as a shareholder in many of the companies. Surely there has to be an arms-length distance between president and institute. It was said that there was no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his team. He said that the evidence he presented to the committee in the past was given "with the utmost of good faith". He will be aware that at the previous sitting of the committee that he attended, a number of allegations were made - first, that he misled the committee when he was before it previously and, second, that there was, and still is, a cover-up within...
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: I am sorry, the first part is important. The question I asked was: does Mr. O'Brien accept that he misled this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: And we will test that. However, Mr. O'Brien agrees that he gave inaccurate information to the committee
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: Could Mr. O'Brien respond to the allegation of a cover-up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: I was clarifying two issues - one, that charges were made, not by me but by members who were on the previous Committee of Public Accounts - and they were made in the Dáil - that there was a cover-up, and, two, that the witness misled the committee. If the Chairman does not want to deal with that, that is fine. I will move on to the other issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: I am clear as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: It was said here. Serving members of this committee alleged that there was a cover-up and Mr. O'Brien is obviously saying he does not believe there was a cover-up and we can just move on from that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: If Mr. O'Brien wants to take the opportunity then to answer the question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: Mr. O'Brien had the floor.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: So Mr. O'Brien will not answer the question.