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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: -----it does not sit well with me. We need to notify the State Claims Agency that we want meet with it. Second is the obvious failures in the systems, practices and procedures that date right back to the outsourcing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: That is a matter for the HSE and all of the officials who have knowledge of and responsibility for that. There are many issues and we should arrange a meeting with the State Claims Agency Many and the HSE, either a morning or an afternoon session. I want both of the entities to attend, in terms of our remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Other committees will do their work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: The Dáil will do its work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: There will be statements, parliamentary questions and topical issues. The Committee of Public Accounts has its remit and if we stick with that then we will be doing our job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I have a proposal that we meet next Thursday with the HSE, the officials who have responsibility for CervicalCheck and the State Claims Agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Can we defer our meeting with the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: The secretariat can take guidance from us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: This is our committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: As worthy as those issues are, they are not life and death matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Yes. We must prioritise these issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Have we not agreed to write to the agency and HSE inviting them to attend next Thursday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I am not sure there is a level of coherence surrounding the third level education issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Will we receive it in advance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I welcome Ms Forbes and her team. It is good to see a healthy gender balance in her delegation. I think this is the first time that RTÉ has been before the Committee on Public Accounts. My first question is to the clerk to the committee. Was a note sent to RTÉ in advance of this meeting that set out the issues we wanted RTÉ to address and is there a copy of that to hand?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Perhaps the clerk knows in general terms what issues we flagged up that we might want to address?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: Employment contracts was one of the key issues, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I do not see it anywhere in Ms Forbes's opening statement. She mentioned how RTÉ operates as an employer in one line but I do not see much otherwise on employment rights and contracts and those issues in her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: I know there is a briefing note but when a witness comes before the Committee on Public Accounts, it is in public session. The people who are watching, the public who we represent, do not have those briefing notes. They will only have or can see what Ms Forbes read out, her opening statement. It is all very wonderful that she has alerted the committee to her concerns about the licence fee,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
David Cullinane: In percentage terms, how much of overall expenditure comes from the taxpayer?