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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Was that constitutionally proofed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: We have private nursing homes, public nursing homes where canvassing is allowed, where it is possible to go in and hand the materials out. Are we saying that the only people in the state, in 2009, that were not allowed to be canvassed directly by candidates in a local election in which they were entitled to vote were residents in reception centres?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I am telling Mr. Dowling that we were allowed to canvass those areas. Is Mr. Dowling saying that all local election candidates were specifically not allowed to canvass people in their own residence in 2009?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Were we allowed to canvass in the public areas?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Can Mr. Dowling find out if the policy has changed because I would put it to him that these are democratic rights of citizens. I was talking about the rights people have. People should have a right to be canvassed by people who put themselves forward in election to represent the people and represent all people. If there is a situation where people are not allowed to interact with local...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: It was not given, Mr. Dowling.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Could Mr. Dowling furnish this committee with the past and current policy on this issue, please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Mr. Waters might not stand over that but my view is that if the only category of people in the state who, for a period of time, were prevented from interacting with local politicians - and I asked if they were allowed to be canvassed in the public or private spaces of these centres, and I was told "no" - so they were prevented from having access to local election candidates, that is a denial...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Does the committee agree to dispose of Vote 24 and Chapter 6 of the Appropriation Accounts and Report of 2015? Agreed. On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the witnesses from the Department of Justice and Equality, the witness from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and our permanent witness, the Comptroller and Auditor General, as well as his staff.

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Many people in the State are a little surprised that the Government is so ill-prepared for Brexit and has been for some time. I am not surprised, however, because it failed to see why people in Britain had voted for Brexit in the first place. It had failed to even contemplate that it was a possibility and that it could happen. Like on many other issues around the world and especially...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: We have had a very heavy dose of revisionism from the Labour Party and Fianna Fáil today. Teachta Howlin made a number of statements and he said the Labour Party was against a rainy-day fund. Last year, however, one of his colleagues - Deputy Jan O'Sullivan who sat beside him - issued a statement in support of a rainy-day fund and the Labour Party at the time was in favour of that....

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: He is the one who brought about the cuts in all the Departments and areas in which he is now saying we now need investment. As my colleague said, it is very illuminating to hear all the parties, which were the cheerleaders for the fiscal rules, berating Sinn Féin for getting it right and for saying that the one-size-fits-all rules were not going to work, that they were too rigid and...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: And past.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: The witnesses should be aware that that remark was not directed at me.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: The witnesses are very welcome. I commend their constructive opening contribution which contained many interesting ideas. The starting point for all of us now in terms of capital spend over the next while will be the national planning framework and how that works out. The logic of it is good in the sense that it does not seek to take from Dublin. We need a thriving capital city. There...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: On a point of order, I had signalled well in advance of many of the Members who came in but I will take my opportunity now and will raise that matter directly with the Ceann Comhairle later. Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of his failure to deal with the issue of equal pay for equal work in the public sector and the impact that is having on services in hospitals and other...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: The Government does it often enough.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Data (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of tender competitions for building construction over €250,000 issued to construction companies over each of the past six years; the initial cost of each tender at contract award stage; the agreed final account or total amount paid in each case; the reasons for and details of overruns; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private in patient and outpatient appointments and procedures carried out in public hospitals in each of the years 2014 to 2016, by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (9 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants carrying out private practices, appointments and procedures in public hospitals in each of the years 2014 to 2016, by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21469/17]