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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Who sets the standard fee and on what is it based?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That is what I am talking about. With respect to cost controls, a standard fee is set and then there is an assessment process. How is the fee assessed and what is the cost control process?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Are those standard fees based on a day's work, per case or research? On what are they based?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Will the witness provide the committee with some further breakdown of those standard fees? Will he give us some history of how they have decreased, as he mentioned cuts, or increased in some areas?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: We can have a look at the standard fees now and compare them with levels two years, five years and ten years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Could we get some more information on the cost control element?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (12 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, for coming to the House for this debate. The Minister of State will appreciate that for the south east not having a university is not an ideal. The facts speak for themselves. The south east has higher levels of unemployment and lower levels of educational attainment. There is no one reason for this but it is argued by academics,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (12 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Unfortunately, Minister of State did not answer the questions I put to her. That is very disappointing. In fact, I was able to put more information on the record of the House as to what capital spend is being made available for the south east than the Minister of State, which is quite extraordinary. The question concerned the capital funding that will be put in place to deliver a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (12 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: It is very depressing to hear the funding for other regions, although fair play to them, they deserve it.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: And Fianna Fáil.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: It is unacceptable that the Minister for Health has left before he has listened to the Opposition respond to the Private Members' business. He made his own contribution, he listened to contributions from his partners in government in Fianna Fáil but he was not present to listen to the contributions made by the Opposition in Sinn Féin and other Opposition Deputies who will speak....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: It is a comprehensive set of documentation, on which I agree with most of the Chairman's observations. What are we doing with it? We now have the response and witnesses were called before us. If there are issues relevant to the work of the Committee of Public Accounts, we must isolate and deal with them. It also strikes me that some of this relates to policy and that the documentation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That is my point. We do not intend to bring back people.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: This will inform our periodic report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: If this informs our periodic report and we are not happy with some of the response received, will we seek further clarification?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That is perfect.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: It is described as a wealth fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has dealt with some of these issues in the past, so I have picked up on some commentary. It is described as a wealth fund. It leverages private funding.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The City of Dublin ETB disclosed a non-compliant procurement of €2.7 million. Here we go again in matters relating to compliance in the area of procurement. I do not know how many times we have raised this and we have received a number of reports from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General when it has been flagged in audit opinions. Sometimes it has no implications for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: There are no sanctions.