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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: One would not think that from his answers today so far. He has been very defensive, in my view. Our job is to shine a spotlight on this issue. That is our responsibility. We will ask questions and his job is to answer them. We need to get as much information as possible to allow us to determine whether taxpayers' money was spent in an appropriate way. He is entitled to his opinion and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Yes. I know it was Mr. Fraser's job to do that. That is not the question I asked. I think Mr. Fraser understands the question so I will ask him to answer it. He is looking at me a bit strangely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: My question was not odd. My question is very straightforward. I ask Mr. Fraser to answer the question and to be a little bit less defensive if he can. If we are going to set up a unit for a specific purpose and it is to do certain things, there would have to be targets, performance indictors and benchmarks so that people could say they are achieving something. I ask Mr. Fraser to explain...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Were the targets met?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Were the targets met? I did not ask how long it was in place. What specifically were the targets? I am not talking about what targets the Government set. I am talking about the mechanics of what the Department and Civil Service is about. I imagine Mr. Fraser had to put in place a set of metrics that would look at performance indictors, targets, how things were benchmarked and how to know...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I know about the Government decision. I have not asked about that. Mr. Fraser keeps referring to the Government decision. I am talking about his role. The Government decision is a matter for the Minister. He appears before sectoral committees. Mr. Fraser appears before this committee. He is accountable for the Civil Service. What did he and his Department do to ensure that whatever...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Okay. If it was only active for a couple of months and it was disbanded, what Mr. Fraser is saying is that it would be wound down and eventually disbanded. Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I am not interested. Mr. Fraser keeps saying it is in his report. I am asking him a question. He can answer it now rather than saying the information is in his report. I ask him to answer the question I asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: He can finish whatever question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Mr. Fraser is not answering the questions. That is the whole point. I will give him as much time as he wants. I will put the question again. Why, if it was only up and running for a short number of months, was it disbanded? He can take as much time as he likes to answer that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I ask Mr. Fraser to explain his second point a bit more and unpack that a bit.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Were they genuine?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Would Mr. Fraser share some of those concerns?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Does he share any of them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Is that a tacit admission that this unit did cross a line and became more political in the sense that if Mr. Fraser had a concern that future Ministers and parties which may be in government had concerns that this had crossed the line and was a good enough reason to disband the unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: If it did not cross a line and the concerns are genuine, which concerns were genuine and real and which were not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: With respect, Mr. Fraser said one of the reasons the unit was wound down was because he had concerns about the wider body politic and people in opposition who may be in government. He talked about their genuine concerns. It is reasonable for me to ask him to outline in broad terms, without reference to individual parties, Deputies or Senators, those genuine concerns he said led him to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Which is why I am asking, when Mr. Fraser says "they"-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: That is not what I am asking. I wish to stop Mr. Fraser for a second because the Chairman is trying to be helpful. What the Accounting Officer is saying to us is that one of the two substantial reasons the unit has been wound down was a concern from the wider body politic and that he was the one who said there were genuine concerns, some of which he agrees with and some of which he does...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I am not asking that.