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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: On whose part was it a mistake?
- 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 is a person of ability in terms of communications and getting a message out. Mr. Fraser stated that one of the reasons he closed down the unit was that there were political sensitivities and the Opposition had concerns. Mr. Concannon essentially fed into that.
- 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 whom was Mr. Concannon accountable?
- 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: Who set up the strategic communications unit?
- 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 have very limited time. Who set up the SCU? Which civil servant set it up?
- 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: Who is accountable for setting it up?
- 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: Who is accountable for disbanding 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: This unit was set up with great fanfare and was to be cost neutral and save us money but ended up costing us money. It was wound down essentially because it did not work. Does Mr. Fraser, as the Accounting Officer and the person who set up and disbanded the SCU, take responsibility for the mistakes that were made?
- 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: What does that mean? What was Mr. Fraser's part in 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 will make a final recommendation to Mr. Fraser and offer some advice, if he is interested in taking advice, regarding the establishment of units of this sensitivity in future. By the way, those of us who have concerns about the operation of the unit are not against streamlining or professionalising communications. That is a good thing and one of the issues that has been lost in all 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: Yes, I did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I made a proposal that the committee would do a special report on PPPs. Has this proposal been accepted or is a decision still to be made on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I note that we will also write to the Minister to make the point. The difficulty is the clause in the licence. The Chairman is right that these issues were flagged well in advance of any licence agreement being put in place. We will do a periodic report. This is one issue that should be flagged as a potential flaw in the agreement made. I do not know how long the licence runs for but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Unfortunately we are not long into a 20-year licence and there is nothing we can do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: We could also ask whether or not clause 20.6.1 intended that this information would remain confidential.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: How helpful has this been to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Is he saying that if he does not get them in, he cannot prepare the audit for this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: That is my point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: It is working.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: It is making the work of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General easier?