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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: It is not a case of trying. We need to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: We can agree the definition.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: The secretariat might come back with a definition.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Yes. It is collating-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: The Department could come back with that, absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Let us say 2018 because some organisations will not have their accounts up to date any way, therefore, 2018 would be a reasonable year with which to start.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: Deputy Connolly hit the nail on the head. When we refer to money spent on consultancy, some of it will need to be spent. We are not stating there is no place at all for spending on outside consultancy. The volume and the repetition involved is a worry, however. Leaving aside the definition of what consultancy work is, I imagine a shocking amount of money is spent in any given year. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: We should send it on to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. It would be delighted to have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: It is also very detailed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: That has softened the Deputy's cough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: That does not say anything.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: When are the Department and the HEA due to appear before the committee? It has been a long time since we had them in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I want to respond to the letter and the response we received from the superintendent on behalf of the Garda Commissioner. This goes back to questions I put to the Commissioner on an individual. Her name is in the public domain but I will not use it. It concerns an individual who was arrested on suspicion of fraud relating to sick leave. At the time, it was an extraordinary situation where...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: No. These were disciplinary investigations which is a different process. The question we asked is whether there have been instances of people who were arrested for suspected fraud. The point is that this individual’s case is the only instance where there was an arrest and the person was brought before a court for alleged fraud relating to a sick note. The case was then dismissed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I raised this case because it was brought to my attention before the Garda Commissioner appeared before the committee. There was a value-for-money element to it because there was an allegation at the time that due process was not followed. That led to a criminal investigation that cost the State money. It went to court and the charges were dismissed. Leaving aside that case, I have no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I would add a caveat to that. I do not disagree with what-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I do not think the Chairman is muddying the waters at all. He is quite right to point that distinction out. The second page of the letter refers to the three disciplinary investigations, which are the next step in the process. HR proceedings come first, then the internal disciplinary mechanisms kick in. The allegations in these three cases apparently related to altering medical...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: That is fair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: I will start with the Comptroller and Auditor General before moving on to Caranua. In his opening statement regarding the 2017 statements, Mr. McCarthy drew attention, not for the first time, to "weaknesses in the Board’s control over grant payments". He cites a number of examples of such weaknesses in the context of pricing quotations, a lack of evidence of invoices or receipts and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: In what years?