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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (23 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for his Department's decision to limit the intake of a school (details supplied) to 13 students per annum; if this decision is in contradiction to his Department's own conclusion regarding the school as outlined in the report on the pilot surveys regarding parental preferences on primary school patronage published in December 2012;...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: The Chair says that every year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: The Chair mentioned the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I put a series of questions in regard to JobPath to the Accounting Officer of that Department. I find it incredible that the witnesses were able to give us a headline figure of how much was spent over an 18-month period but were unable to break down or even provide a headline figure for how much was spent on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I would like the committee to consider it. To return to an issue that arose at our last meeting, we had a situation with RTÉ and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment whereby a big chunk of money was given over but there does not seem to be any way for us to examine how that money is spent. I acknowledge that the case of RTÉ is a bit more complicated...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: There is a separate issue that needs to be addressed. It is unfortunate that I have to leave but there is a separate issue involving------

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: -----confidentiality and all sorts of reasons, legal and otherwise, being used to avoid giving information. We had a short discussion on the matter and will have to revisit it at some point because we will come up against the same brick wall over the coming 12 months and it is making our job more difficult.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: If we can, please.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I echo those points. I have raised the issue of the independence of many of these reports several times from a process perspective. I am deeply uncomfortable with it. It chimes with an item of correspondence that deals with expenditure on consultants and legal firms by third level institutions. We will talk about that, but the points are the same. We have to stop and reflect on all of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: The question is actually larger than that. If we look at the third level report - I know that it is not what we are discussing now - the Higher Education Authority, HEA, is supposed to be the authority. Much of the work could be done in-house. Is the HEA outsourcing huge amounts of this consultancy work which can actually be done by staff in-house? It is its function.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: It is costing a lot of money.

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: After reading the Minister of State's speech, I agree with an Teachta Jonathan O'Brien that it is an insult to workers in section 39 organisations. It is also full of contradictions. It is a amazing that the Minister of State made it because he essentially argued that section 39 organisations were not obliged or forced to cut the pay of their staff. He then acknowledged, however, that the...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I did not interrupt the Minister of State. He should take his medicine by listening for two minutes without interrupting.

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Having acknowledged that the State cut the funding of section 39 organisations, he stated that a good place to start in terms of making savings would be to cut salaries given that these organisations spend a large part of their budgets on pay. Bizarrely, he then stated that the pay of employees in section 39 organisations should be restored but he did not know how this should be done. This...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I did not signal, so I do not need to speak.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Three issues emerged from the last European Council meeting: Brexit, defence and monetary reform. All three are crucial and central to the future of the people of this island. All of these Council meetings are at a time when there is a focus on the future of Europe and discussion on the type of Europe we want to build. We all now recognise that this future will be without Britain and that...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Trade Union Act 1941 and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to confer on authorised unions the right to have their representative duties to their members for collective bargaining and disciplinary matters recognised by employers and to provide for related matters. This is the seventh Bill that Sinn...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Remuneration (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basic pay for TDs, Ministers of State, Ministers and the Taoiseach in each of the years 2007 to 2017; the basic pay that will apply to TDs, Ministers of State, Ministers and the Taoiseach in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54643/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the funding and resources shortfall at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1300/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (16 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: 489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) that receives public contracts from his Department does not recognise trade unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54384/17]