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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: That seems to be a solid foundation for a review. I note Ms Licken is not disagreeing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: I would imagine that would be the type to review that we would hope to see. In response to Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, Ms Licken said that at various points all options were considered and at one point stopping the project altogether was considered. Will she explain what options were considered? When was the option to stop the project considered? Why was that not actioned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Just for the purposes of clarity, will Ms Licken explain who we are? Was it a working group in the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: How many people were involved? Was it two, three, five or six in this group?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: They would meet and consider several options, one of which was to cease. However, they chose not to take that option.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Was it a departmental official or the Minister who made the decision to continue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Is it possible for the committee to get a copy of whatever submission was given to the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Would that have had a menu of recommendations or was it one recommendation to continue with the project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Were all options given to the Minister or was it just the one option to continue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: I will have to stop the discussion there.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: I am at the mercy of the two members who are left. I ask them to be as quick as they can. I do not want to cut anybody short. We will begin with Teachta Jonathan O'Brien and conclude with Teachta Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all our witnesses from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for participating in the meeting and for the material they have supplied. I hope Ms Licken's first appearance was not too painful. We are unable to dispose of chapter 15 of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff, and wish everybody a happy Easter. The committee will adjourn until our next public meeting on Thursday, 19 April at 9 a.m. when we will consider the following chapters from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report: chapter 1, Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016; chapter 2, Government Debt; chapter 24, Irish Fiscal Advisory...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (29 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: 83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the elements of the December 2017 joint report (details supplied) that relate to trade and regulations with regard to cross-Border trade on the island of Ireland have been fully agreed by Britain to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14559/18]

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: As the Taoiseach and the leader of Fianna Fáil will know, Sinn Féin has given the Irish Government and the European negotiators a qualified support on Brexit. We do so not because we support the Government or the European negotiators, but because we support what we see as an Irish approach and an Irish solution to Brexit. Every single political party on the island of Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Negotiations (28 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Paragraph 49 is not agreed. As I said, I have read it. I am not colour-blind.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Negotiations (28 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: I have read it very well. Unless it is in green, it is not agreed. We had agreement in principle last November and December. That was when we had a political agreement which we were told was a cast-iron guarantee. My quarrel is not necessarily with the Minister but with the British Government. It seems to accept, in principle, all of these proposals but, in practice, it is not coming...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Negotiations (28 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Why are we still quarrelling about the backstop then?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Negotiations (28 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's understanding of the goods that will be listed on annex 2.1 of the protocol attached to the European Commission draft withdrawal agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Negotiations (28 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: Annex 2.1 of the proposed protocol attached to the European Commission draft withdrawal agreement lists goods which it says will be covered under any alignment of goods and services between North and South on the island of Ireland. Why is there a list of goods that are being covered , particularly as this would obviously suggest that some goods are not covered? Can the Tánaiste give a...