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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: I am not asking Ms Murphy-Fagan to comment. I am making an observation from my own perspective. I think I am being logical when I say that if this has happened in other European member states, and in fact one newspaper report states: "Government, SSCL and arvato, which is the company that got the contract, are all to blame for shared services centres failing to achieve value for money." So...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: The Chairman would understand my suspicions that it could potentially happen down the road, but obviously that is not a matter for Ms Murphy-Fagan. I am just making an observation, which I think is relevant, given what has happened elsewhere. I thank Ms Murphy-Fagan for her answers

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: This motion is designed to say to the Government that we need to do an awful lot more in terms of providing affordable housing. Nobody in the Chamber would disagree with that but the problem is that we do not have anything like the action we need. It galls me to listen to Fianna Fáil Deputies sometimes. Deputy Casey spoke about Fine Gael as the party for the rich and for developers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (30 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Lending (30 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the first-time buyers scheme is in addition to the existing council home loan or replacing it; if so, the new deposit required; if divorced or separated persons will be considered under the scheme if the family home has been sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4220/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Is the Tánaiste in a position to update the House today as to when the commission of investigation will be established to address the concerns of the victims of Bill Kenneally? This is a very serious issue where concerns have been raised about the handling of this case by An Garda Síochána, the HSE, Tusla and the old health board. I certainly do not want to make politics with...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: The Tánaiste has not answered my question on the broader issue of accountability. This Government has had to set up more commissions and tribunals of investigation than any other Government in the history of the State. I welcome that all of those were set up, as they were necessary, but the reason they are necessary is the number of crises in public life across all services. Why do we...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Name them. Who has been held to account?

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Who has been held to account? Name them.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Give us even one example.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: On Tuesday, the Committee of Public Accounts published its periodic report. It makes for sober reading on the level of oversight and accountability in the State. We need accountability in public office and the report gave us shining examples and illustrations of why we need a real change in Irish politics. One of those shining examples was the decision to reopen Stepaside Garda station....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: That is what we want too.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: We support that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures his Department is undertaking to protect the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts post Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3697/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: The question is to seek an update from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and from the Minister on the measures that are being taken to protect the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts in the context of Brexit.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Michel Barnier, the EU chief Brexit negotiator, said in a parliamentary committee in Madrid on Tuesday that Ireland remains a source of uncertainty in the Brexit talks. As the Minister will know, the joint report and the communiqué that was agreed between Britain and the European Union was described in Europe as a "gentleman's agreement". It has been called a "backstop" agreement in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I do not raise these issues to be critical of the Minister or the Government. I raise them because they are central and important to citizens in the North and because they underpin the Good Friday Agreement. My point is the Minister is right when he states we need to ensure that Irish citizens who live in the North should continue to enjoy the same rights they currently enjoy as EU...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I want to relate this to the previous topic. The Chairman finished by stating that none of us in this committee would accept that the Deloitte report into the HEA was truly independent and other members have spoken about the process. That process is used repeatedly, not only by the HEA but by other organisations. At what point do we stop, reflect and look at what level of independence...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: The committee knows that I have been raising this issue for some time. I also brought the Waterford Institute of Technology issue to the attention of the Committee of Public Accounts and we had a very robust exchange with the president of WIT. I researched the matter when I was looking at the WIT situation and while there is a national policy to govern intellectual property it is actually...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: When I spoke to Dr. Love last week, he stated that the HEA's report on commercialising intellectual property was imminent. Indeed, it was due to be published this week. It may be published tomorrow or early next week. We will have it. We can then request the additional information on live and spin-out companies that may be in play in third level institutions. That information might be...