Results 15,341-15,360 of 26,402 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: That is great because amendments tabled by my party when the Water Services Bill was going through the Dáil were rejected. It is nice to see another lesson is being learned from the fiasco that is Irish Water. In any event, given that the Comptroller and Auditor General is the Accounting Officer for Irish Water, I must point out that there is a service level agreement with local...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: I understand that, and there obviously has to be negotiation with the trade unions. My point is that the objective is to reduce the workforce by 1,000. That could be done through voluntary redundancies or redeployment. The objective, we are being told, is to save €70 million in taxpayers' money by reducing the workforce. How could we save money if there were a redeployment of staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: I ask Mr. McCarthy to stop there for one second. We encountered this issue in respect of shared services also. We are being told that €70 million less will be spent on staff in Irish Water but if the staff who are to go are deployed elsewhere, there will be no saving to the taxpayer. Therefore, the wool is being pulled over people's eyes again as they are being told money is being...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Could Mr. McCarthy put it in a clearer way, if he can?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: Who can give this committee a note on how exactly €70 million will be saved by the redeployment of staff from local authorities or Irish Water?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: A helpful suggestion came from one of the local authority CEOs to whom I spoke. In any local authority area, there is investment in addition to funding for local government that comes from a myriad of Departments. The Department of Education and Skills, for example, will spend money as part of capital and current expenditure but local authorities are not informed automatically of what...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: One CEO, whose name I will not mention, was very frustrated that announcements are being made by Ministers on housing developments at stage 1, when there is not even any planning permission. It is more about announcements than anything else. It is obviously frustrating. We had a discussion earlier on the communications unit set up by the Government and the blurring of lines between the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018) David Cullinane: I was making the point about the grant aid but Mr. McCarthy has answered it already.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: We have juxtaposed the speech and contribution of the Tánaiste, and bear in mind the Tánaiste was somebody who was at the heart of those negotiations and efforts to secure the restoring of the institutions in the North, and that of the classic hurler on the ditch, Deputy Micheál Martin, who again has come into the Chamber not to be constructive, as he said, but simply to repeat...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The vast majority of people outside the House who are nationalist in the North want all the parties to be constructive and they understand the motivations that lie behind the attacks which come from Teachta Martin. They are not about making sure we deal with the real complexities and challenges that present in the North. It is all to do with what he sees as the electoral challenge from Sinn...
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The Deputy called for the institutions to be pulled down.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The Deputy is blaming the electorate now.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: That did not take long.
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Deputy Sherlock's party had a chance to do it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: What has any of that got to do with the issue that we raised? It is pure and utter waffle. It is an insult to those of us who put down this Topical Issue.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: They should clog up the Workplace Relations Commission because the Government will not do its job. This is an "Alice in Wonderland" speech we are getting. It is ridiculous.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: Yes, they know their own business best. They put their business first. The Minister has let the cat out of the bag. It is not the workers but the business.
- Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)
David Cullinane: The Minister's speech today is an absolute joke of a response to what is a very serious issue. I am really angered by her response because essentially what she, the Taoiseach and the Government are doing is outsourcing what should be the first priority for all of us in this State, namely, the protection of workers, to employers. The Minister said that the Government cannot give blanket...