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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (15 May 2018)

David Cullinane: My question is on the rights of EU citizens who live in the North and how, in a post-Brexit situation, their political, social and economic rights can be protected.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (15 May 2018)

David Cullinane: We need to translate that goodwill into tangible proposals so that Irish citizens in the North who are also European citizens will know exactly where they stand in a post-Brexit situation. The Good Friday Agreement recognises that someone in Northern Ireland can be Irish and British and hold both passports and citizenships as a birthright. As with many other Brexit issues, however, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (15 May 2018)

David Cullinane: The answer is that the North does not have to be outside the European Union. It should be part of it because that is how the people voted. It is interesting that there are, rightly, proposals on the table to effectively keep the North in the customs union, the Single Market and the legal architecture of the European Union for trade purposes. Why can the same approach not be taken to...

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

David Cullinane: The Minister knows what is the right thing to do. For decades people in this State and on the island of Ireland have shown solidarity with the Palestinian people. Time and again, when we have massacres such as the recent one, we come into this Chamber and hear empathy and empty platitudes from Ministers but we do not see any real action. What we saw on our television screens yesterday, and...

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

David Cullinane: We are discussing this motion because of the recent CervicalCheck scandal, which will not be solved behind closed doors. It can only be resolved in public and there needs to be public accountability. The Committee of Public Accounts has a duty to examine these issues, as does the Joint Committee on Health. They should be able to do their work and be supported in that regard. Last week, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (15 May 2018)

David Cullinane: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons due to receive IV treatment within 15 days in University Hospital Waterford that had their treatment delayed by more than 15 days by values (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21409/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I do not know what to say to Vicky, Stephen and others. Thank you for coming here and sharing your stories with us. As you know, we had representatives of the HSE and Department before us last week. We will have more representatives before us tomorrow. Some of those people that Stephen spoke about that knew about the strategy, the memo and the cover-up which has been referred to, will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I have one small point. In those same exchanges there is a note that says that the legal firm Arthur Cox had given the advice that there was no contractual issues and it still took months.

European Communities (Brexit) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: The Bill seeks to amend the European Communities Act 1972 and requires the Government to update the Oireachtas formally on Brexit developments and negotiations and on preserving the rights of Irish citizens in the North. As Teachta Adams said, we acknowledge the Government has in recent times agreed and followed through on its commitment to update the House on a regular basis. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I have just received answers to specific questions posed by Deputies, including some of Teachta Kelly's questions. I asked many detailed questions about the times and dates of each of the three memos. I asked who signed off on the memos and all associated correspondence; who sent the memos to the Department; who received the memos; for sight of all communication between the HSE and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: We are supposed to start at 9 o'clock, and we received five pages of important information this morning. We have to digest it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: The Secretary General's opening statement says that "we will learn lessons", but from the HSE's perspective it seems to be the same old story. It has an acting director general, and it is still providing information very late in the day. There are no lessons being learned about public accountability, that is for sure.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I would say an hour, until 10.30 a.m.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. We hear an awful lot about duty of candour in respect of whether women and patients should be given information through full disclosure. There is another issue in respect of duty of candour, namely, people like the witnesses giving information to committees like this one. For a lot of people in this room the witnesses have failed in that duty. Some of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: We need the information. We are referring to September 2017, a few weeks before Vicky Phelan's case was made public, and no decision had still been taken to inform the women. There was still a strategy of containment. Will Mr. Breslin explain why the Minister for Health was not informed of these issues before he learned about them in the media, or wherever he learned about them? Why...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: My question was about information that had been given to the Minister for Health. I will be more specific for Mr. Breslin before he comes back in. Last week we had a very lengthy discussion on what information the Department had. While I put my points robustly, fairly and respectfully, I am very angry with the Chief Medical Officer about the fact that we sat here for one and a half hours...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: That is not what I asked Mr. Breslin.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I will have to stop Mr. Breslin because I am getting very angry. He knows the question I am putting to him and I am not going to listen to waffle from any Accounting Officer, given how angry committee members and I feel. We are not talking about trawls of emails and what was sitting on people's desks; we are talking about information of which the Chief Medical Officer had sight and had...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: I am looking for the reason. Perhaps Mr. Breslin might answer the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Yes.