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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?

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

David Cullinane: Why?

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

David Cullinane: We can ask for the information. That is my point.

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

David Cullinane: Can we get the ones the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have and that we do not have because one of the ones we do not have is the figure for the HSE, and we are writing to it? Are there others we need to write to? That is my point.

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

David Cullinane: I am looking at the figure for the Department of Education and Skills. The focus at the last meeting was on the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which was €3.2 million. The figure for the Department of Education and Skills is €5.7 million, which is more. For all we know, the figure for the HSE could be greater again.

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

David Cullinane: There are a number of Departments and agencies that come within the remit of the national shared services office. We have the global figure for the Departments in terms of overpayments but that figure may not be the full figure because there may be agencies and organisations that are funded by the Departments in respect of which there may also be overpayments. There are also Departments...

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

David Cullinane: I am not suggesting it is for Mr. McCarthy to do it. If the committee is to examine this issue we need the full picture in terms of the Departments, agencies and organisations that are covered by shared services and those that are not. The Department Accounting Officers can get that information for us. It may take some time to get the information but it is for the committee to ensure we get it.

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

David Cullinane: If we cover this as a chapter in the periodic report, there are two separate issues. There is the overall figure for overpayment captured across the entire public service and State agencies; and there is process as to why some are and some are not under the National Shared Services Office. There could be logic, for example with Garda and Army pensions, as to why they are not covered....

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

David Cullinane: Whether we bring them in.

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

David Cullinane: We need to know what it was based on. I am sure there was a document.

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

David Cullinane: There has been a spotlight on Ireland for some time now in terms of corporation tax. Some of it is good and some of it not so good in terms of the perception of how corporation tax is applied in Ireland. We have the European Commission's judgment on Apple. Generally there has been what I would regard as a very negative interpretation of how the Irish tax code applies to multinationals. I...

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

David Cullinane: Is there an umbrella group for multinationals in Ireland?

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

David Cullinane: I wanted to raise a couple of issues relating to the third level sector. We have put quite a spotlight on this sector and published a report. Subsequently, we had a number of independent - I use that word advisedly - examinations into a number of issues. Outstanding is the Thorn review in Limerick. We have subsequently received new information that was on the front pages of some...