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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: I accept that and I thank Mr. McCarthy. Those processes are in place to protect Mr. Buckley so that he does not have to appear before the committee to answer difficult questions, and then - I am not saying he is doing this - try to defend the indefensible. It is indefensible that the Comptroller and Auditor General feels the processes that should have been in place were not. In many ways,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: Mr. Buckley made an extraordinary statement earlier when he said that the mistake in the difference in measurements slipped into the lease. In fact, it was not a slip at all. People were aware of this. Section 6.21 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report states:In finalising the lease, the issue of the different measurement bases was considered. When reviewing the lease, the Chief...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: I should have said it was not acted upon.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: It was picked up but not acted upon and the Comptroller and Auditor General was not given a credible reason.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: How was it picked up and not acted upon with no credible reason given to the chief auditor of the State? How is that possible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: We know all that. I have one final question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: We understand that; it is all in the documentation. The critical point is that it was picked up but not acted upon. When the Comptroller and Auditor General was doing his job examining this, he was not given a credible reason as to why it was not acted upon. Certainly if a credible reason was given, it is not in his report, which is unacceptable. I have one final question and I will...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: Why did it take from November to May for a first draft to appear?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: Was that draft given to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: Therefore, it is still not finalised.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: This is October.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: In November 2017, Mr. Bourke sought an internal review but, in October 2018, there is still no final-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: There is something fundamentally wrong in the OPW if Mr. Bourke can request an internal review in November 2017 and it does not start until early 2018. He had a draft that he cannot give to anybody in May 2018 but we are in October now and we still do not have it. In April 2018, the Comptroller and Auditor General's office started looking into this and examining it. Is it a coincidence that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: That was April and then a month later a draft of Mr. Bourke's report appears. Is that coincidental?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: I am going to make one final contribution because we had this previously with An Garda Síochána and Templemore. When issues come to anybody's attention that may be of relevance to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office, it should be informed, whether in draft form or otherwise. The OPW had a responsibility in this regard. If it had concerns and sought a report, it ought to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: Would it be appropriate for the Comptroller and Auditor General's office to be informed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: Why was the Comptroller and Auditor General's office not informed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) David Cullinane: I will pick up on that later.
- Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
David Cullinane: There are four speakers so I will be sharing time. We will be taking five minutes each.
- Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
David Cullinane: We are under strict orders to take just five minutes. This is the third budget from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael under the so-called confidence and supply agreement. It is the third time we have had endless hours of debate on the budget where Fianna Fáil Deputies rolled in one after the other to tell us what was wrong with the budget and blamed the Government for what was not in it...