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Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Is this Deputy Cowen's speech for the European elections now?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Tell us.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Fianna Fáil is keeping it in office.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The Deputy is working up to a motion of no confidence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: It is a comprehensive set of documentation, on which I agree with most of the Chairman's observations. What are we doing with it? We now have the response and witnesses were called before us. If there are issues relevant to the work of the Committee of Public Accounts, we must isolate and deal with them. It also strikes me that some of this relates to policy and that the documentation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That is my point. We do not intend to bring back people.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: This will inform our periodic report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: If this informs our periodic report and we are not happy with some of the response received, will we seek further clarification?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That is perfect.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: It is described as a wealth fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has dealt with some of these issues in the past, so I have picked up on some commentary. It is described as a wealth fund. It leverages private funding.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The City of Dublin ETB disclosed a non-compliant procurement of €2.7 million. Here we go again in matters relating to compliance in the area of procurement. I do not know how many times we have raised this and we have received a number of reports from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General when it has been flagged in audit opinions. Sometimes it has no implications for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: There are no sanctions.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The report being carried out for the committee by the liaison officer will be useful. We previously gave the matter some discussion and we were waiting on the report to see what we would do with it. There were some major issues with justice and policing, for example, and there was one case where it was too late to make changes and, therefore, the contract was just rolled over. That was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The Comptroller and Auditor General does not receive the reports, however.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: These are two ETBs where problems have occurred. The committee has received a special report from the Comptroller and Auditor General on one ETB which flags up weaknesses in the sector. Whether it is in our work programme or we deal with it now, will we have a meeting in respect of the report? I think we should.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: We need representatives from the Department to appear before the committee to deal with that report, and all the issues which have been flagged in the audit opinion need to be discussed at that meeting. Will we return to this matter in our work programme?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Is it in purgatory?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the Kildare-Wicklow ETB speaks for itself. It is quite a damning report in highlighting mismanagement, conflicts of interest and poor governance with information not being brought to the attention of the board and just poor decision making. It speaks for itself. We just discussed the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB, which has accepted its...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: -----so we will not be able to deal with them. I thought the Department's response to the Comptroller and Auditor General report was inadequate to say the least. I have concerns over how it responded to that report. I imagine officials from the Department will be coming in.