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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Mr. Breslin will admit that was an extraordinary amount of money, both in the retrospective payments and the year-on-year costs. It is a huge amount of money for the cohort of people involved.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Reading between the lines, the settlement was made reluctantly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: I understand that. The State robustly defended its position right up to the settlement. Mr. Breslin indicated there were ten consultants involved.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Private investigators were hired to examine the movements of some consultants in the public service. Who would they have been?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Did the three cases in which private investigators were used involve three of the ten people who brought lead cases?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: In terms of robustly defending its position and reluctantly agreeing to a settlement, the State seems to have gone to extraordinary lengths. Unusually in this instance, it hired private investigators to examine the movements of these particular consultants. In Mr. Breslin's view, was that justified?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: How much did the private investigators cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Were the private investigators given terms of reference as to when they would track the movements of the individuals in question? Did privacy issues arise in relation to the rights of these individuals? How was their privacy protected when the private investigators were hired?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: I understand that. I ask Mr. Breslin to bear with me. There was obviously a contract of some description with individual private investigators or a firm to track the movements of three individuals. I am making a judgment on the rights and wrongs of that but trying to establish what the process was. In the first instance, which arm of the State was responsible for employing the private...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Mr. Breslin will imagine that the consultants involved will have felt uncomfortable and will have questions. I have not been lobbied by any of them, nor have I met any of them. I have seen the media coverage of the matter and I am aware of the criticism made for using private investigators and the defence made by the State. I imagine if I was one of the individuals involved, I would want...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Was any wrongdoing discovered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: That is the point I am trying to address. The State went to what I consider to be extraordinary lengths in hiring private investigators to track the movements of these individuals. Incidentally, I am conscious that this practice is sometimes used in cases involving people receiving social welfare payments and, as such, is used in a number of different contexts. In this case, the way in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: I have one final question, which is for Mr. Connaghan. I gave prior notice of this. My final question is a very local one. Mr. Connaghan will have to forgive me for that but I did give him a heads up on it. The Minister for Health announced last week that he would deploy a modular catheterisation laboratory for University Hospital Waterford. Mr. Connaghan knows that this has been a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Twelve months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: As I can tell Mr. Woods that 12 months would be completely unacceptable, the HSE needs to come back with a detailed breakdown of what the process would involve. This includes the tendering process, the project design work process, planning, construction and all the rest of it. All of the Members from the south east have met the Minister on this issue several times. This is a hugely...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Could Mr. Mulvany send us a note on that? People who work for the State were disconcerted on seeing a small group of workers who were under surveillance in this way. While I do not pass any judgment on the rights and wrongs of it, people would be entitled to know exactly what was the process and what safeguards were put in place by the Department. I accept what Mr. Mulvany has said but if...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: There are some examples, but we have to be fair. By and large, the Irish political system, although not unique, is certainly in a better position than that in some other European countries where the far right is on the increase and much more strident. The Irish people are very tolerant and know that we need to do our best. However, we are a little removed from the crisis. Countries such...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Last December, the Government told the Irish people that it had a cast-iron guarantee regarding the North and that in the event of a no-deal scenario, there would be no hard border or no hardening of the Border on the island of Ireland and this deal was designed not just to avoid any hardening of the Border but to protect the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts and to protect the rights of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (4 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: 136. To ask the Taoiseach the annual expenditure on commercial archaeology services in his Department by provider in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28753/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (3 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: I have already said this is a step forward for people in Waterford and the south-east. As somebody who lobbied the Minister to put this in place as an interim, temporary measure until the national review completes its work, and we are hoping for a favourable outcome, I am somewhat disappointed with the language in the speech the Minister of State read out. It states there is merit in the...