Results 13,061-13,080 of 27,087 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Mr. Fraser is responsible for the spend. The problem-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: I will ask my questions in a different way. If it is going to cost €20 million, who will sign the cheque?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Mr. Fraser will sign the cheque. In my view, the person who signs the cheque is the person accountable to the Committee of Public Accounts. Am I correct, Chairman?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Is Mr. Fraser, as the Accounting Officer, accountable to the Committee of Public Accounts for the signing of that cheque?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Mr. Fraser is saying that he cannot give any explanation for the increase in cost from less than €5 million to €20 million because he does not think it would be helpful for him to comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Surely, there has to be more to it. It cannot just be that it is taking far longer because we are talking about a cost that is four times the initial cost. I would like a little more detail as to why the cost has increased from €5 million to €20 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Was any lobbying done in regard to the cost of legal fees, for example? Were any representations made to the Department in regard to the cost-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: I ask Mr. Fraser to bear with me for a minute. On any issue that comes before the Committee of Public Accounts, there will have been a lot of meetings, public commentary and Dáil proceedings. I am not asking about them. I am asking Mr. Fraser questions. Whatever was discussed at previous meetings with my party leader or any other party leader is a matter for those meetings. Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Who made those representations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Leave aside party leaders because Mr. Fraser would be the first to remind me that party leaders do not make policy. Government makes policy. There can be discussions with party leaders-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: But it is not made by party leaders. Rather, it is signed off on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: I will put my questions through the Chair, and in a different way. The Taoiseach can consult on any matter with whomever he wants. On this issue, he consulted with party leaders and so on, but the Department and the Taoiseach sign off on any decisions that are made. That is what happens. The Taoiseach may have the consent or the support, or not, of individual members of the Opposition but...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: What is not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Yes, but why is not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Yes. Who brings them forward?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Yes, the Government brings them forward, not the Opposition.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Okay. We are going around in circles on this particular issue. I do not accept what Mr. Fraser said. It is Government that sets the policy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: It is. It can be done-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: The Government brings it forward. We are dancing on the head of a pin which is unnecessary because I am not suggesting anybody is culpable or responsible. I am trying to get answers on behalf of the taxpayers who will have to foot this bill. The cost has increased from less than €5 million to €20 million. I am not saying that is the fault of the Department, the Taoiseach,...