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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I ask the Chairman to bear in mind that a report from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which is confined to examining these matters from a value for money perspective, focused on the relationship between State funding and the company that was spun out. It looked at a very limited aspect of this matter. As we know, the HEA report looked in more detail at other issues...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: We should write to the Department to thank it for its letter. However, if they have follow-up correspondence and documentation in which concerns regarding management of conflicts of interest are raised, they have an obligation to pursue the matter further.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: We should ask if they have examined the possibility of appointing a special investigator. When they were here, they indicated that was one of the options they were considering.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Sinn Féin puts workers and families first. That is our main focus and was so in the alternative budget we put forward last week. I am sure the Minister will have seen many of the proposals we made. This Dáil has time and again debated the crises in health and housing. There have been hundreds of hours of debate on these issues. Even the Government has accepted there is a...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Sinn Féin will support Financial Resolution No. 1 but it cannot support Financial Resolution No. 2, which proposes an increase in the rate of carbon tax. We oppose the latter for the reason the Minister for Finance and his officials provided at joint committee hearings to the effect that the tax is regressive. It is not going to reduce carbon emissions. We have carbon taxes in the...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Financial Resolution No. 3 proposes a technical change to update the year on which the calculation of the bank levy is based. This measure's outworking is that the banks will continue paying the same amount and the State will receive the same revenue. We in Sinn Féin wanted the levy increased and the corporate tax breaks that banks get done away with because we believe that they should...

Financial Resolution No. 6: Capital Gains Tax - Exit Tax (8 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Sinn Féin also supports Financial Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7. Financial Resolution No. 6, which is the exit tax amendment, includes a highly technical language change to be included in the exit tax stipulations. It is important that this is looked at in more detail in the finance Bill. Deputy Pearse Doherty certainly wants this to happen. There does appear to be a tightening to clarify...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the significant broadband problems in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41300/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I agree with the point made by Deputy Bríd Smith, as I stated privately to the Chair before the meeting started. There is a pattern of behaviour. The Department did not give us the report we needed to do our work on the previous issue we discussed. There was much discussion of members of the climate action committee being able to hold Departments to account, but if Departments are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: No, although I have no problem with sharing some time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I have no problem with that. I welcome all our witnesses. As a starting point we must reduce our emissions and reach our targets under the international agreements we have. We must keep the lights on, as somebody mentioned, but this must be done in a fair and just way. As the debate evolves, we will have clashes such as this involving a project that local people might see as important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I will stop the witness there. Anything could be financially viable but this is a private commercial project, first and foremost. My question is, as a commercial private project, is it fighting against science and an evolving policy? The policy here has changed since the project started in that we have banned fracking. Is it possible there will be further policy changes? As the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: The professor from the United States may answer as well but perhaps Mr. Deane could comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Would Dr. Deane's answer be that it is not as viable today as it may have been in 2006 and 2008?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I have one final question for our guests. I will put my cards on the table. I think this project is of a different time. Unfortunately, I do not see it as viable. I note there is a strong lobby and an understandably strong view within the local community and among those who live close to the Shannon Estuary who want to see this development. What would the guests say to those communities...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that planting trees on bogland dries it out leading to greater carbon emissions from the soil than sequestration by the trees; if this fact was taken on board before his announcement that 600,000 trees will be planted on bogland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41401/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Forestry Sector (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: 227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that planting trees on bogland dries it out leading to greater carbon emissions from the soil than sequestration by the trees; if this fact was taken on board before his announcement that 600,000 trees will be planted on bogland; and if he will make a statement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I will add one small point to that. Further down into the letter reference is made to the Indecon international consultants' report commissioned in 2016. Three years on and Horse Sport Ireland is still talking about the structure and the organisational changes that were recommended. Why does it take three years to implement the changes? One point made is that the new board is close to...