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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: It owes it to the OPW. It has paid half of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I will make a point in public session, if I may. It seems all this correspondence has again been leaked to the media. We have raised this several times. As politicians, we all speak to the media, and it is part of our work. We are carrying out an examination and a national media outlet should not be doing it. We cannot have them setting the agenda for us and selectively deciding what are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Remember in the audit-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: In the HSE internal audit into Console, it made it very clear that because of all its findings or conclusions were of a high risk rating, they collectively proposed a systemic problem for the HSE, not for Console. That was from the HSE's internal audit. That was not fully accepted by the director general, but it was what the internal audit said. We still have not come back to it, because...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: In the course of our work, issues arise where organisations will then embark on their own course of action. In the case of UL, there is now going to be a review and examination - set up by the Higher Education Authority, HEA - and the terms of reference are set out. It is not precluded from giving us the information that we need. What sometimes tends to happen is that these examinations...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I will not go into that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I have a question on the IMI and the more than €20 million transfer. I would like clarity on whether the matter has been covered. I have technical questions on non-consolidated trust funds. Is it the case that non-consolidated trust funds fall outside the purview of the financial controls of the institute? Do consolidated trust funds fall within the purview of the financial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: What does the Comptroller and Auditor General mean by non-consolidated? Mr. Seamus McCarthy:The financial statements do not show the €12 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Excluded.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: They are subject to financial controls.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Good. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the issues relating to a facility (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that HIQA has undertaken three audits of the facility over the past 12 months; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that HIQA has advised that if identified issues relating to safeguarding and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 195. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for obtaining an extension on the closure order to allow staff in a facility (details supplied) sufficient time to ensure all requirements are met; his further plans to ensure the funding is forthcoming to the facility to allow required qualified persons to be employed there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25233/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: It is nice to be back again. By my calculations, this committee has spent ten hours and five sessions hearing from 39 witnesses about this Bill and the wider issues that are raised in it. That is an impressive amount of time and effort. I thank the committee and the Chairman for the work it has put into this Bill. I also thank all the witnesses for giving their time to evaluate the Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: The issues they raised were in regard to the "objectively justify grounds" as opposed to "severe financial difficulties". We are open to supporting that, the reasons for which I set out in my opening remarks. There is no Bill that is brought forward by either Government or Opposition that is perfect. On the last occasion I was before the committee I made clear that the intent of this Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: We are more than happy to do that. If it is an issue of definition that can be resolved. Ms Bolger and Ms Maguire were very constructive. I suppose they were wearing their legal hats and wanted to ensure the definitions in the Bill are consistent with the definitions set out in other Bills. We took the view that State employees are already covered by collective agreements. We were trying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: It was not so much an unintended consequence, the issue of if-and-when contracts is a problem mainly in the private sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: That was the reasoning behind that provision. We are trying to avoid a conflict in regard to definitions. The conflict or differences of opinion should not come down to definitions of a worker, employee or employer. We can agree on the definitions issue because that will not take away from the substance of the Bill. It is an issue we do not have a difficulty with in terms of amendments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: When I moved the Bill on Second Stage in the Dáil the view of Government was that there was no need for it because there is no problem and no real issue that needs to be dealt with. As stated by the Chairman, the Government has since produced heads of a Bill to deal with the issue, which recognises that there is need for a solution to this problem. We worked off the University of...