Results 261-280 of 622 for garda speaker:David Cullinane

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: ...practice. Mr. Kelly used the terms irregular practice and maladministration, which I think we can accept. Earlier I asked questions about the culture of the force. What is the culture in An Garda Síochána when these types of issues come to light? How does the corporate body of An Garda Síochána deal with them? Are they dealt with in an appropriate manner? After...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Page 14 of the report refers to the Garda Commissioner and 2 March 2011 and contains a paragraph which says "no assurances were given". That paragraph was removed and deleted and Mr. Kelly said this was because he was given assurances.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. Kelly agree that the culture of An Garda Síochána up to 2015 was to circle the wagons rather than to accept there was wrongdoing and correct it? Would that be his view as head of internal audit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: .... We are all obliged to implement those laws and abide by them. Instances have been illuminated in this report where bank accounts were opened without the permission of a Minister, members of An Garda Síochána were directors of companies they should not been directors of, and land owned by the OPW was leased and the money generated used to pay for services that it should not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: With respect, we need to get more information on almost everything. It seems to me that if this happened in 2014, there must have been an acknowledgement within the corporate entity - either An Garda Síochána or the Garda college - that there were issues that it needed to start addressing by beginning to make payments back to the OPW. I want to know what triggered that. Why did...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Does the Commissioner understand in accepting those findings that they include multiple breaches of legislation by An Garda Síochána?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: In Mr. Kelly's opinion, were there breaches of legislation by serving or former members of An Garda Síochána?

Trade Union (Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2017: First Stage (13 Apr 2017)

David Cullinane: This is a Bill to: remove the bar on a Garda Síochána or Defence Forces association from associating with, or affiliating to, any trade union or any other association; remove the bar on a Defence Force member from becoming a member of a Defence Force association that may wish to reconstitute itself as a trade union; and prohibit the use of strike action by an Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Yesterday, I requested that the Garda Commissioner and the Secretary General in the Department of Justice and Equality should appear before the committee to discuss the debacle of the money that may need to be repaid because of the inappropriate fines. We also have very serious issues with the Garda training college in Templemore. We do not know who the Commissioner might be by the time we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: ...that in the first instance? Certainly with the training college some serious issues arise relating to governance and how accounts were managed. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit the Garda training college in the first instance?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: ...Department head came before PAC, and rightly so because it involved a cost to the Exchequer. I am saying that for consistency purposes, and because it is the right thing to do, we should have the Garda here as well, whoever is head at the time, and the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: People can have whatever view they want individually. I am expressing my view. I am saying that on previous issues of this magnitude, to be fair in terms of consistency, the Garda Commissioner and the Secretary General of the Department came before the committee because there is a cost. If we do not know what the cost is, it is our job to find out. Whether they have the material there is...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I will move on the first topic that I wanted to deal with, which is the liaison with An Garda Síochána and the issue Mr. O'Brien addressed in his opening statement, which was the centre of controversy in terms of what he said when he was before the committee in the past. I sent a one-minute video clip to the secretariat where a question was put by Deputy Deasy, a former member of...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: ...question was asked of Mr. O'Brien as to why the report was not published. He said the only reason why the report was not published was because he had been given advice or instructions from An Garda Síochána not to publish the report. In his evidence here today, Mr. O'Brien said that advice was given in April 2015. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: So a decision was taken not to publish the report in 2012, in 2013, in 2014 and up to April 2015 before the HSE got any opinion from An Garda Síochána. Why was that decision taken? Who made the decision not to publish the report-----

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: -----up to the point when the HSE did get confirmation from An Garda Síochána? Who made the decision not to publish the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: ...of that nature. In other words, what Mr. O'Brien is telling me is that it was the HSE which made the decision up to April 2015 not to publish the report. It was not because of any advice from An Garda Síochána. Would that be fair?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: ...for that was because he was adhering to standards, processes and procedures within the HSE. My point is that the decision not to publish the report was based on that and not on any advice from An Garda Síochána.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Prior to March 2015, had Mr. O'Brien sought an opinion from An Garda Síochána on whether the HSE could publish the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: ...fairly but Mr. O'Brien is answering them in a way he wants to answer them. The question I am asking is this. Prior to March 2015, did anybody in the HSE or the head of the HSE contact An Garda Síochána to seek advice on whether the reports could be published?