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- 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?
- 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: How the money is allocated and the financial controls that are in place are within the remit of the committee. Why the money is spent is a matter for the Áras.
- 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: No, I refer to scrutiny.
- 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, Mr. Fraser is the Accounting 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 money is then allocated to the Áras. There is then the management in the Áras and now an audit committee in place.
- 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: Questions have been raised about the true costs because there are several costs associated with running the Áras which are outside of the €3.9 million gross and the €3.8 million net that are in the President's Establishment account for 2016. On page 6 it is detailed that they relate to: salaries, wages and allowances; travel and subsistence; training and development; and...
- 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: No, sorry, that is the wrong page. It is detailed on the following page. Those costs relate to the office of the Minister for Finance; superannuation and retired allowances; the Office of Public Works, which I presume relates to the upkeep of the Áras itself; the Garda Síochána; foreign affairs; and defence. The latter three are obviously expenses incurred in the context of...