Results 18,881-18,900 of 26,430 for speaker:David Cullinane

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: The sectoral issue will deal with the administrative issue here, and that is fair enough. We have a responsibility for value for money and costs. It is being reported that there will be a very significant cost attached to this error, and the Accounting Officer needs to be held to account. There is much focus on the Minister and the Commissioner, but the Accounting Officer of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: That is the Accounting Officer. It is whoever is the Accounting Officer.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: If it does not know, it is all the more reason it should be here, because it is an opportunity for us to ask why it does not know and also what it need to be looking at.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: If that is the Deputy's position-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: People can have whatever view they want individually. I am expressing my view. I am saying that on previous issues of this magnitude, to be fair in terms of consistency, the Garda Commissioner and the Secretary General of the Department came before the committee because there is a cost. If we do not know what the cost is, it is our job to find out. Whether they have the material there is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: To be fair, we should not respond to every media report on NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I must say at this point that it is very unusual and in fact a new departure for the committee that when members of the Opposition are making points, Fine Gael members seem to be jumping in a great deal to question our motives. I am putting the Chairman on notice that I am not happy with that. We are all equal members here and entitled to our opinions, as are the members of Fine Gael....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I was not taking anything personally.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: What I was pointing out, with respect, was a pattern here and that pattern is not just related to those two issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Is the attendance of the Department of Justice and Equality relating to the appropriation accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Mr. Love mentioned in his opening statement that a review of oversight and governance was carried out on the higher education sector or institutes generally. He mentioned there was a review of governance in a number of areas. Was the intellectual property one of the areas reviewed, specifically the commercialisation of intellectual property?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I understand that the organisation has a responsibility. I am interested in how the interests of institutes are protected and how we ensure there is good practice and best practice when it comes to the commercialisation of intellectual property. Is Dr. Love telling me that his organisation plays no role in governance and oversight when it comes to intellectual property? I understand the...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Does the HEA play a role?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I shall ask a number of questions that will suggest that the authority should does so.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: When the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills was here last week we discussed spin-off companies and how revenue that accrued from them would go to institutes. This is one of many revenue streams that are open to institutes of technology and universities. Dr. Love acknowledged in his opening statement that some organisations or institutes are in deficit. Some of...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I conducted cursory desktop research into this matter. If I managed to do so then I am curious to learn why the HEA has not done so. I examined the national policy in the first instance. I also examined the policy of various institutes of technology and I have not got to the universities yet. I discovered that policies had big gaps and varied greatly in terms of their robustness, who was...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Can Dr. Love confirm whether the HEA considered the potential differences in institutes that the HEA is responsible for-----

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: -----in terms of how they manage conflicts of interest? When was the last time the HEA conducted a review? When did the HEA go to the trouble of getting all of the intellectual property policies by all of the institutes and measured them to see which ones were the most robust?