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- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: In terms of records, whose responsibility is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Is that a change emanating from that Act?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: When can we expect to see that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Is Bord na gCon working on that anyway?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: The board did not necessarily need an Act to have good record keeping. Good records are important for the industry anyway. One could disagree with any report. The board could say that it did not agree with the preferred results report or any report, but if there is no system of record keeping, then one way or the other one can always dispute a figure. It is not healthy that there is no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Bord na gCon has that now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: At least there is work in progress. One of the things-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Is it fair to say that the preferred results report also found the Irish greyhound industry was not focused on the sport of greyhound racing but on breeding? That was one of the findings and a thread that ran through the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Is it the case that the industry itself is producing ten times more greyhounds than are required to sustain the sport of racing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: I watched the "Prime Time Investigates" programme which looked at many issues related to breeding. We provide taxpayers' money to support greyhound racing as a sport, but what I am hearing from Mr. Dollard is that we cannot really agree on the accuracy of numbers because of a lack of traceability and adequate records. Our job is to hold Mr. Dollard to account for the money given to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: It was €16.8 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: We are spending more than €16 million per year on the industry. One of the things that emerged in the "Prime Time Investigates" programme was the possibility that the State was subsidising below-cost selling of greyhounds outside of the country.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: I know it has come out but does Mr. Dollard disagree with any of the facts put into the public domain through the "Prime Time Investigates" programme? The programme reported that there was a higher concentration on breeding than on the sport of greyhound racing. It pointed out that taxpayers' money is being used to subsidise this industry and suggested that there is the potential for that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Specifically with what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Let us park the disagreement the board has with the programme itself. Mr. Dollard has said that the board has made a complaint, and that is fine. As CEO, what assurances can he now give to the public that the changes needed to ensure that the industry operates on a more sustainable basis, that animal welfare issues are addressed, and that there will be much more concentration on the sport...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: I hope the Government will listen.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: The programme for Government committed to having a new national planning framework. As the Minister knows, that framework recognises Waterford as a regional city. The local authority has asked the Government to properly support the North Quays development which is very important to the economic development of Waterford city and county and the entire south east. Three years ago the local...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Some €6 million.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (24 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the yearly wage cost of a whole-time accountant at the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. [38691/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (24 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised by an increase of the VRT surcharge on imported diesel cars new and second-hand from 1% to 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 40% and 50%. [38693/19]