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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: No, but that is what it said. I did it myself before I came in. I asked Siri if it was always listening, and it came back and said that it respects a person's privacy and that it is only listening when a person is talking to it. That is not quite correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Yes, inadvertently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: No, it is not. That is the whole point. There are words other than "Siri" that it picks up by accident or whatever. It records instances where somebody clearly does not say "Siri", which is not the person's fault if, for whatever reason, the machine or the device itself picks it up wrong. It is not factually correct to say that it is only listening when a person triggers the Siri system,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: The cost of this investigation is problematic to say the least. The Taoiseach stated that the spend so far has been approximately €6.6 million. On several occasions, he has cited an estimate of the cost, which I imagine was presented to him by his officials, of up to €30 million. There is an obligation on the Taoiseach to outline what this figure is based on and how it was...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: This year marks the 20th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the British-Irish Council. Ministers with responsibility for health policy visited the north-east inner-city health hub, which I welcome. It is very important that these types of visits go ahead and that legislators can see what is being done on our behalf in these centres. The Taoiseach also had a bilateral discussion...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: We will pat you on the back.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I wish to speak to question No. 9. The Department of the Taoiseach is obliged to have a statement of strategy. My understanding is that the statement of strategy for the Department will reach its end date this month. We do not know how long this fractured Government has left as we move into 2020. It might be a month, two months or three months. We know that in the by-elections, to use a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach has 30 seconds to get the bingo answer in.

Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I wish to share the timeslot with my three colleagues, Deputies Quinliven, Ellis and Mitchell. I will take five minutes and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle might let me know when my five minutes are up. I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after “basis that the levels of such will be progressively reduced”: “— end ‘side-by-side’ waste...

Waste Management (Amendment) (Regulator) Bill 2019: First Stage (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Waste Management Act 1996 to require the Minister to produce a report on the appointment of an independent regulator for the domestic waste management sector, including the regulation of domestic waste charges. I am sharing time with Deputy Ward. We need to bring our domestic waste management back under...

Waste Management (Amendment) (Regulator) Bill 2019: First Stage (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: In his opening contribution today, the Minister of State repeated what he said in responding to the motion of no confidence in his senior Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, namely, that the Opposition has come forward with bits and pieces of solutions but there is no master plan. On the one hand, that is patronising, while on the other, it is arrogant because it suggests that this Government...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I did not interrupt the Minister of State. Another is Achieving Energy Efficiency in Housing. Others include a Part 8 proposal on social housing units in Deputy Ward's and Ó Broin's constituency, Reforming the Private Rented Sector, Regulation of Short-Term Letting Platforms, Review of the Tenant Purchase Scheme, and a comprehensive alternative budget, which I will go through in a...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I hope he will read it and learn from it because it is quite obvious to me that he has not read any of the policy documents or the solutions that have been brought forward. He is trying to complicate something that is very simple. We do not need big policy documents to understand the obvious, namely, that this State is not building enough houses. There are families that we all represent...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: It was unfortunate that the revaluation of rates in a number of local authorities - South Dublin County Council, Dublin City Council and Waterford City and County Council - happened after Irish Water was established. The Valuation Office had no choice and had to value the water assets in those local authority areas. Waterford was given an allocation of €4.7 million, but when the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: There is a logic to that. In 2013, Irish Water paid the rates. From 2014 to date, it was paid by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the form of compensation to each local authority. That is why I am seeking clarity. My understanding is that there was a change in the legislation through the Water Services Act 2017, one that means Irish Water will pay the rates from next...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: That is my point. It is a policy issue. I imagine that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform had intended or hoped that Irish Water would be more commercial, but because of all the difficulties, Irish Water was not in a position to pay the rates or rates were not applied to it. Instead, the Department paid the rates for the local authorities. It has discontinued that payment...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: It happened because water infrastructure had been nominally rated up to that point. It was just money in, money out. Through no fault of the local authorities, the Valuation Office had no choice but to rate the water infrastructure. Waterford services the south east with wastewater treatment plants, but the apportionment is not based on those. Rather, it is based on population. The...