Results 14,581-14,600 of 26,718 for speaker:David Cullinane

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: There is no reason we cannot receive a copy of a report with the facts. I do not know what Mr. O'Driscoll and internal audit will do as a next step; it may well seek to carry out a further examination, while Mr. O'Driscoll might have to act on foot of the audit report, but that is entirely different. I suggest Mr. O'Driscoll reflect on this and if he can, he should give us a copy of the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach is smiling so maybe he does have candidates up his sleeve in the North. If he does not, the smile will not be on his face come election day.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: There are increasing calls from within the European Council for a European army. Angela Merkel has publicly backed the idea of creating what she calls a "real, true" army for the European Union. She said the EU "will have to create a European intervention unit with which Europe can act on the ground where necessary". This echoed similar comments by Jean-Claude Juncker who said "a common...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements (10 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a holder of a British driver licence can retain C1E and D1 and D1E categories when the holder transfers over to an Irish driver licence; the procedure by which this is done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16867/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (16 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service since its establishment to date; the staffing costs; the commissioned consultancy costs; the specific policies accepted or implemented as a result of the work of the service; the specific policy changes as a result of the work of the service; and if he will make a...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: We are now just shy of three year's since the Brexit referendum result. Despite the great time and effort that have been put into negotiating the withdrawal agreement, the many debates, consultations and sittings of the Brexit stakeholder meetings which were organised by the Tánaiste and which the Opposition have worked constructively on, we are no closer to the ratification of the...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: I did not interrupt the Deputy and he had a fair run. For the first time there will be Fianna Fáil-SDLP candidates. It does not surprise me that the Fianna Fáil leader says he cannot understand how people in the North accept and welcome the fact that we do not have institutions. That is not the case. Certainly, Sinn Féin acknowledges that the institutions should be in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: First and foremost, I would agree with the Chairman's observations. The first comment I would make is that it seems that PwC was paid twice for the same advice, and the taxpayer paid for it. There is a contradiction in the briefing note we got from the HSE. It states that advice was given and that the advice was specialist, high-level input. That is not low-level input. That is very...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: I would want more information from them. I would want to know exactly the nature of this specialist high-level input. It is not good enough to just give us a paragraph stating it provided high-level input. What was the nature of it? How much did the advice PwC gave cost? On what exactly was it advising? At what senior level was it in PwC? We do not know the volume of work PwC did but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: -----the decision-making process but it was not the decision maker. To say that is the justification is a bit much. We need to go back to PwC, thank them and say that we do not agree there were no conflicts of interest. That is not my view. We will hear from other members, and the committee will have to form a view, but we need a further breakdown of the costs, what exactly PwC did and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: Deputy Catherine Murphy hit on a very important point. If individuals in PwC were involved in both processes then there is a problem. It would be problematic if someone who was involved in giving high-level specialist advice was also involved in assisting, preparing, signing off on or writing the other report. It is correct to say that there are arms of these organisations that specialise...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: That has to be very clear. We saw from the letter we received that PwC is being very vague. We need to know exactly what is meant by "high-level input". They need to be very comprehensive about costs and precise definitions of what "high-level input" means. Deputy Connolly asked if that means written reports, and I imagine that it does.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: I declare a conflict of interest in that I have called for JobPath to be scrapped, so anything I say should be seen clearly in that context. The total cost was €163 million. The number of participants in full-time employment for more than 12 months was actually quite low. That was the issue we had raised with those concerned. The other point that needs to be put into context when...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: The Chairman might indicate when I have ten minutes remaining as there are a number of issues I want to cover.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank Ms Burke and her team for their attendance. I have a number of questions relating to the 2017 annual report, which was submitted to us. On page 84 it refers to enforcement charges of €8.9 million. Is that how much was invoiced or how much was recovered?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: Do bad debts or write-offs occur in those situations?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: How many cases would there have been in that year?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: Yes, but I am asking about the cases.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: Would it be a small number?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

David Cullinane: Okay. Are the enforcement charges cost recovery charges or fixed fees or what way are they calculated?