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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: It is non-contentious.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: It will be in the newspapers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: I will on that one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: Chairman, part of that briefing note was on the front page of the Irish Examiner, which is fair enough as obviously some member of the committee gave it to the newspaper. We cannot stop that. However, I was concerned about the headline. It has to be clarified for the public. I am not saying the headline is misleading but it can be interpreted in a number of ways. It comes from a briefing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: The more important point is that whatever about somebody leaking, and that is not right, there are headlines in newspapers arising from documents being given to us, on which we have an obligation to put questions to witnesses to ventilate the issues, and if the headlines could be misinterpreted it is important for us to correct them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: I wish to come back to that for a moment. This was an issue. Are we coming back to this in our next periodic report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: I recall we only dealt with this in private session in the past. However, since witnesses have been before the committee in public session I want to go back to something. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission examined allegations of price fixing and the issues contained in the leaked copy of the minutes of the meeting attended by the chairperson of HIQA. I had put to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: His line was that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission essentially vindicated Nursing Homes Ireland. The position taken of "nothing to see here" was actually not accurate. The agreement contained a set of conditions, including that the organisation would not do any of the stuff that was discussed and that would be problematic. Those involved thought about doing it and talked...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: Nursing Homes Ireland signed up to it. Therefore, Nursing Homes Ireland, as a corporate body, agreed with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission that it would not do any of that stuff. It was never clarified whether it was said, but it is implicit in the agreement. The agreement outlines all the issues that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission probably thought had...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: It is closed off now anyway.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: It is important that we acknowledge the work done by RTÉ both on this issue and on that of gender pay. I think that is the second report. We had robust exchanges with the Accounting Officer and the director of human resources when they were before the committee but they seem to have taken the issue seriously. We have reports and recommendations which they say they accept and hopefully...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: It is up to that committee if it deals with it, it is not appropriate for us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: We will come back to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: There are 109, certainly more than 100 contracts that will have to be reviewed. That could be a cost to RTÉ and, as a consequence, to the Exchequer. We will not know until that work has been done but it is something that we would return to.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: The Chairman will launch this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: The Comptroller and Auditor General will not be able to watch it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: I definitely think we should come back to this after the recess. May I see the previous document on the screen again? We should write to Trinity College and request a breakdown of the €974,781 figure. The letter refers to the cost of investigation, which I assume is an internal investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: It also mentions ancillary costs, whatever they are. It would be useful to get a breakdown of what all that means.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: We need to know the costs of the outside firm, the ancillary costs and the amount that was stolen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
David Cullinane: Do we have a serial leaker?