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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: It is fine to have a collective agreement. Why refuse to engage with the trade union representatives of those on self-employment contracts, especially if they have been only given that option? They have not been given an option to be an employee. That would answer the question that was raised by people in the clips we heard earlier. They are being forced to accept the loss of the right to...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: People join a trade union for a reason, which is that the trade union will properly represent the workers. There is a two-tier system in place in RTE. Some staff have access to trade union representation whereas others do not.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: That is a problem. I have met them and some are women. They told me that they find it difficult to raise issues regarding their contracts for various reasons. There is an unhealthy relationship between the employer and employees in terms of power and they find it difficult to raise issues, which is why some joined a trade union. If they are saying this is an issue, then RTE is not a good...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: We will see what comes out of that review.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Let us juxtapose this. I ask the witnesses to put themselves in the shoes of those who are earning €30,000 or less on one of these contracts but who are in the trade union. Their contract might be due to expire or they might have a difficulty with an element of the contract but RTE will not engage with their trade union for the reasons outlined by Ms Cusack. However, when it comes...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Ms Cusack cannot answer that because it does not stack up and there is no justification for it. RTE has a two-tier system. The well-paid contractors have leverage because of who they are and they can have an agent walk in and have a conversation with her about their contracts but she will not deal with the poor unfortunate contractor who is not as high profile as them and who does not have...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Silence often speaks for itself when people cannot answer questions because if there was a logical and fair reason as to why this is the case, then it would be given but I have not been given one. I accept that Ms Cusack and Ms Forbes are committed to reviewing these issues and I have no reason to doubt their sincerity but there is a problem. Ms Cusack has not explained why one of these...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: But what is in front of Mr. Jennings and his colleagues is difficult for those people.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Can I make one final observation? One of those very senior people I mentioned - one of those people the witness was quick to praise who is a producer on one of the top programmes and who is on one of these contracts - said to me when I spoke to them yesterday that if we do not address this issue, the RTÉ canteen will continue to look like a sample of people from Dublin 4 and will be not...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Would they be brave enough to do what Mr. Philip Boucher-Hayes did, basically?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: Who says we are not productive?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Administration (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if a public services card is a requirement in order to make an application for a renewal passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19339/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: I wish to comment on that. It is an interesting letter. It is follow-up correspondence from discussions we had with the education and training boards. My comment relates to procurement. The last paragraph of the letter refers to having two people in procurement, one of whom is a temporary clerical officer, in an organisation of that size with a budget of approximately €95 million...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: I requested this information, as did several other members, some weeks ago. I am pleased we have got the report. The first thing to say is that the report is heavily redacted. We do not have full information. Several things strike me when reading the report. This is an audit report into a section 38 organisation. It chimes with similar reports we have seen of organisations that have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: We should say that we "may" invite the organisation to appear, pending any further information we receive.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: What is contained in the redacted document is serious enough for us to have the organisation and the HSE come before us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: I agree with the points made by the two Deputies. We have discussed this on a number of occasions. Since we had our discussions with the three Accounting Officers who appeared before us that day, we have received a mountain of information and I am not satisfied with the response either. However, we have much more additional information. This was an exercise in the committee having a blind...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: I propose not only that we come back to this issue - Deputy MacSharry was talking about discussing this when we discuss our work programme next week - but that we would seriously consider doing a stand-alone report on this issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: The issue merits that. It is so fundamental and there are so many issues, it would be useful.