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Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: I will finish on a positive note. I do not know if Mr. Cody follows the World Economic Forum in Davos. Joseph Stiglitz called the Irish tax state an enabler of the global "race to the bottom" in terms of corporation tax code. Is this of concern to Mr. Cody?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: What of the Department of Finance? There were several Ministers in Davos also. They would have been there to hear some of the criticism.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: At our last meeting, I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to respond to claims that the university or people in it may have misled his office. He said at the time he was doing his own report. Obviously, we must come back to it at some point because we have dealt with it in the past. We have the internal audit report which makes 42 recommendations. The correspondence states 17 of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: Must we wait until we have the special report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: I welcome that the report has been published at last. Looking back to when we first dealt with this matter and, as a committee, put a spotlight on this issue, we might remind ourselves that we were told by the HEA that there was no problem and nothing to see. I felt there was pushback against members of this committee even asking questions. The attitude was pretty much one that we should...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: The Chairman requested it. It was not a report, as such, but information on how much it costs the State to support it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: No, that was the point. We had a discussion on this last time and I think it was accepted that it was not as difficult as was being suggested. We will have to come back to it at some point, maybe we should wait until the report comes from Waterford, but Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and the HEA are all players in this. We now have a report which makes changes and which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: I have a final contribution. As one of those who asked the questions and took an active interest in this, I want to put on the record that an awful lot of good work is being done by universities and institutes of technology in research and development, co-location and commercialising intellectual property. None of that is bad. Legitimate questions were asked about process, conflicts of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: Where did that come from?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: To me, this very much chimes with what happens in the health sector where we get sent from Billy to Jack. For example, it could be the HSE, which then says it is a matter for the Department or the Minister. Nobody - not Knowledge Transfer Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the Department or the HEA - can answer any questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: I want clarification before this session about what we can or cannot deal with. Local authorities are not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General's office. There is separate auditing. The principal funder is the Department and then there is the local government fund. We are dealing with the accounts for the then Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: This is a large Department and it has responsibility for many areas. We could all approach this matter from different perspectives and raise different issues. I foresee problems. Some of the frustrations that we have already heard will be multiplied by 50 on the day if we all go off, prepare and come back only to be told that we cannot deal with those issues. The Accounting Officer will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: We must not put ourselves in that position. We have a bit of time, so I can identify the types of issue that I would like to explore with the Accounting Officer. We can notify him of the broad areas. We might also say that we do not want to be stonewalled and told that a matter is for someone else. If it is for someone else, then that person should be brought in. It is as simple as that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: Can we give the broader issue some thought in terms of how we map the meeting for next week?

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: It is welcome that we are at least having a discussion on the Bill that will go some way towards addressing the issues arising from low hour contracts and low paid jobs. As Teachta John Brady said, I sat where he is sitting almost a year ago and proposed a Bill that would have gone much further and dealt in a more substantial way with low hour contracts. That legislation sought to implement...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: On this special day, I join with all of the Deputies who have already expressed their appreciation and love of Deputy Pearse Doherty for introducing this Bill. I wish to be associated with those remarks. In 2015, the former chairman of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority, IFSRA, Mr. Brian Patterson, gave evidence to the banking inquiry. His answers on accountability and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: I am not sure if it is in this report as I have not read the note from the Comptroller and Auditor General's office and if it is in it, that is fine, but is it possible to get a breakdown of the Departments and agencies that are covered by the National Shared Services Office and those that are not? In terms of the ones that are not, some of them jump out at me in terms of the size of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: Is it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: Is that everybody? Is there any other Department or agency not covered?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: Yes, not covered by the National Shared Services Office where there may be a figure of an overpayment. Can we have the actual overall figure for all Departments and all agencies?