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Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: It is not unusual, but it is not unique. It is actually very unusual to use it.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: All of the other ten projects we have discussed have not come in above cost. My point is, as a consequence of using not a unique but a very unusual process, that, lo and behold, it resulted in an overspend of €400 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: Perhaps that was not the right thing to do.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: Sometimes sit down.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: We are talking about a vote. We are not coercing anyone.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: I commend the Minister and officials in a range of Departments on the various briefings they provided for Oireachtas Members. They were very helpful in enabling us to speak to the Bill and in progressing it through the Dáil. I want to register with the Ceann Comhairle our disappointment at the fact that many of our amendments were ruled out of order. Many of my colleagues have...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: My understanding is that it was done, but if it was not, it will be as we want to table amendments that will be in order in the Seanad next week.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: We look forward to furnishing the Ceann Comhairle with that information. We are 24 days from D-Day. Two years ago when the negotiations started, nobody expected us to be signing off on emergency legislation that we hope will never come into effect. I still think a crash-out Brexit is the least likely outcome, but it is a possibility that would have devastating consequences for the...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: This is relevant to the Bill from our perspective. We sought to strengthen the Bill.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: With respect, we have not filibustered or taken up any additional time that is not warranted. I feel it is important for me to put these issues on the record because they are important to the people who we represent. They will be without political representation in the European Parliament. That includes unionists as much as nationalists. A majority of people in the North voted to stay in...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: There are three Sinn Féin MEPs.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: The Minister is making it party political.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: The Minister mentioned-----

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: I would like to speak on the amendments.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: I signalled to the Tánaiste that I would raise these issues and he accepted. I accept that the amendment proposed to insert a new section and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's ruling in that regard. I wish only to make a short intervention about important issues that we sought to include in the Bill by amending and strengthening it. We had a number of engagements with the Tánaiste...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: Fantastic.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: This debate is about the North, so it is probably not serious for him.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: I do not want to delay the debate, although it has to be said we are making very good progress. I understand that this Bill is not the place to address in some respects the issue that I am raising, but it does have a relationship with the Bill because there is an issue in relation to tactical insolvencies which have happened in the State before. There is a relationship between companies...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: Is the Minister in a position to tell us if there is anything in the pipeline? Is the Government looking at a Bill? It has implications for the relationship between companies based in Ireland that also have subsidiaries in the UK or even the North. Given that this has happened before and workers have been left high and dry, and while I accept that this Bill is about maintaining the status...