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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Oct 2018)
David Cullinane: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures in place to secure the common travel area between Britain and Ireland post Brexit; the measures in place to protect pension payments to those in receipt of a British pension here and those in receipt of an Irish pension in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40421/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (2 Oct 2018)
David Cullinane: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Irish citizens in Northern Ireland by virtue of their British citizenship will continue to enjoy, exercise and have access to rights, opportunities and benefits that come with citizenship of the United Kingdom after Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39873/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (2 Oct 2018)
David Cullinane: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Irish citizens in Northern Ireland by virtue of their European Union citizenship will continue to enjoy, exercise and have access to rights, opportunities and benefits that come with citizenship of the European Union after Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40036/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (2 Oct 2018)
David Cullinane: 512. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects progress will be made on appointing a company to roll out rural broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39786/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General tell us what the rules are around institutes of technology and deficits? My understanding is that they are not meant to be in deficit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: From where does Mr. McCarthy's statement that there should not be deficits derive? Is it in law?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Is this through guidelines?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Therefore they are in breach of a direction of the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: I understand that, I am just trying to establish the fault. There is a direction from the Department that the institutes of technology should not be in deficit yet some of them have accumulated deficits over a long period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: How does the Department allow that to happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: I know that we are dealing with the deficits only now, however at the last meeting I did ask that Dr. Graham Love and the Department would be here to discuss Dr. Love's departure. There are reports, although they are only in the media, that raise question marks over the relationship between the Higher Education Authority, HEA, and the Department which form part of questions that we have put...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Reserves?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Deputy Catherine Murphy asked whether, if the boards are in deficit, they are signing off on them. However, there might be nothing to sign off on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Are we sticking with the third level sector?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Is the HEA report on Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, part of the correspondence? If not, can we deal with it now? I wish to make a point on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: Okay. Where is the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the University of Limerick, UL?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: No, there is one on UL.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: I raised that point because at the second last or third last meeting we decided we would hold off on following up on some of the institutes and universities until the special reports are complete, because then we would have a report to work from. If they are there-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: The deficits have to be seen in the context of the size of the institutes and I can see where there are problems. Smaller institutes that have smaller numbers have big deficits, which shows that there is a bigger problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
David Cullinane: The Accounting Officer and the chairman of the board from that ETB board have been before this committee. They were not in a position, to put it mildly, to answer questions but they did say they would come back to us once the report was finished. It is somewhat complicated by the fact that the report is now subject to a criminal investigation. That needs to run its course. There were...