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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: If possible, can it be sent on to us in advance of next Thursday's meeting so that we can see if there is anything that needs to be added to it?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (27 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of temporary absence arrived at by an organisation (details supplied) with the permission of his Department in the case of pharmaceutical assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39153/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (27 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the evidential research that was used to substantiate the definition of temporary absence for pharmaceutical assistants arrived at by an organisation (details supplied) with the permission of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39154/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (27 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the tasks a pharmaceutical assistant may not perform during their temporary absence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39155/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (27 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: 133. To ask the Minister for Health the conflicts that arise between the definition of temporary absence arrived at by an organisation (details supplied) with the permission of his Department for use with pharmaceutical assistants and public safety issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39156/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: The stock response from the Minister and all of the Fine Gael speakers has been to ask those of us on this side of the House how we can dare hold them to account for their failures.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: How dare we speak for children who are stuck in homeless accommodation, for families who cannot afford to buy a home and for families who are stuck paying high rents? The Minister may not like it, but Sinn Féin is the main Opposition party. Our job is to hold him to account because Fianna Fáil certainly will not do it. The housing crisis did not happen by accident. We have...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: We have looked at the regulation of short-term letting. We produced a capital plan for housing in our alternative budget last year.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: More important, the report of the all-party Committee on Housing and Homelessness, which was established at the behest of Sinn Féin, is based on the evidence of the experts who came before the committee and spent many hours talking to politicians about solutions. The Government cannot even implement a report that was agreed by committee members of all parties.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government has a brass neck when he says that we should not do our job. He is being kept in his position because of Fianna Fáil, which is the developers' party.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: His party represents a cosseted and privileged class. I am proud to be a member of a party that represents ordinary working people. Those people are the victims of the Government's housing policies, which have failed many of them.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: Of course the Minister should resign.

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: Barry.

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: We are approaching the end game. In order to judge this Government on what it has achieved we have to go back to almost the start of the process. At the start of the process, this Government and the European Union promised that the Irish issues would be resolved before moving on from phase one of the negotiations. There were a number of elements in that phase, including the divorce...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. Fraser and Mr. McCarthy. I wish to put on the record that it is disappointing in some respects that we are meeting and discussing this matter now. I reluctantly voted to have today's hearing but I will stick to process and oversight mechanisms, which is what I want to get a sense of. I have got some flavour of it already. Mr. McCarthy audits the accounts. What are the roles...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: Mr. McCarthy's audit team deals with the finance officer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: The finance team.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. McCarthy have an interaction with the audit committee? I know it is only in place since February but with it now-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

David Cullinane: In terms of an accountability chart regarding how the money is spent, is it fair to say that how the money is allocated and the controls on that are under our remit but why the money is spent is a matter for the President and outside the scope of the committee?