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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: No. Hang on a second here. I ask Mr. Fraser not to be flippant in his response. I was not intending to be funny. The issues are not funny. I contend that we are setting up all of these commissions and tribunals because the system itself is not able to give information to the public and to Members of the Oireachtas. We have a very current live crisis in relation to cervical screening....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: The 2016 one does-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: -----and certainly the potential one that is being looked at now. I return to something Mr. Fraser said earlier. It was an interesting point and very topical. He spoke about the difference between tribunals and commissions of investigation. I do not want to put words into his mouth. I want to clarify that he said the commission of investigation would be stronger from a spending...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Will Mr. Fraser remind me of what he said?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Here is the problem-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: The problem with the quicker-and-cheaper model in the context of the commission of investigation is that all evidence given to such a commission is automatically disbarred from being used in evidence in any criminal proceedings.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Exactly. That is the first point. It includes all oral and written evidence and it even extends to documents that are merely listed as being in use. That is my point. We set up these commissions. It will examine the issue. If it is a commission, I think it is behind closed doors. Then much of the information complied and used is put in some vault and cannot be looked at for a long...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I understand that and I appreciate that it is not Mr. Fraser's role to comment on what is happening in the health service. In terms of his Department, however, there was spending of €54.7 million on a combination of tribunals and commissions of investigation. Unfortunately, we may have to establish more. I am not sure if they will come under the remit of the Department of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: If everyone gets five minutes, we will all get in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: To be helpful to the Deputy, I can clarify that the PQ I was talking about earlier was in the name of Deputy Quinlivan and asked the Minister for Justice and Equality how her Department interacted with the SCU. The point is that it was a question to the Department, not to the SCU, but the SCU drafted the response, not the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: It was just for clarity.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: We cannot accuse Mr. Fraser of unconscious bias on gender or towards women given that he has two women on either side of him. Well done on that because we do not always get gender balance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Yes, we have discussed this issue enough. Mr. John Concannon has been mentioned a number of times. There is no doubt he is a talented individual - we all accept that - so any questions raised in respect of him are not personal and certainly not a reflection on his ability. There is no doubt he is a person of great ability. Mr. Fraser stated Mr. Concannon was head-hunted and appointed by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: He was a public servant essentially.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: At any rate, he is a public servant. We dealt earlier with correspondence from Mr. Concannon to Mr. Barry Murphy, a special adviser to the Taoiseach. In this correspondence, Mr. Concannon stated that communications under a strategic communications unit would be deployed to support strategic Government priorities and decision making under an overarching team such as the Republic of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I know this did not happen but I am asking how it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I know that and it is not the question I am asking. Mr. Concannon contacted Mr. Murphy, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: I know and I am not asking whether the SCU used the phrase "Republic of Opportunity". I am saying that Mr. Concannon corresponded with Mr. Murphy and suggested to him that the phrase "Republic of Opportunity" be used.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: The answer is "Yes".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) David Cullinane: Mr. Concannon is a civil or public servant. Mr. Fraser was horrified at the notion that this would be entertained and it is good that he is very clear that this would not happen under any circumstances. How could a public or civil servant believe that was-----