Results 19,041-19,060 of 26,430 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I am trying to understand the process. In this instance, which is one example, the company was sold for a significant amount of money, of which the institute received a tiny fraction. We have been told that the institute is in deficit. The core funding for the institute has also been cut quite substantially since 2008. In terms of public accountability and people who would be in senior...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Can Mr. Mannion supply the information to the committee? Can the Department furnish this committee with a breakdown of exactly who got what? I am talking about people who are employed by the State, namely, individuals who worked for the institute. I am not saying that it is wrong that such people would have an association with any the companies. The institute received €1.3 million...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: With respect, this matter is a bit different. I am referring to a company that is co-located in a research and development agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I do not want to focus too much on the company.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Is Mr. Mannion familiar with a company called Aceno Mobile Services?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Would he be surprised to know that Aceno is basically a shelf company for TSSG, IMS-Stream - it formerly served in this capacity for FeedHenry - TSSG Holdings, Zimbie, ZolkC Holdings and Fuseami. The company is a spider web of different innovation companies. The shareholders in most of these companies are the same people who are also employed by the institute. Would that be an issue of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Earlier Mr. Mannion said that there was an internal review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Earlier Mr. Mannion said that there was an internal review in Waterford.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Who is doing it? When Mr. Mannion says internal does he mean it is internal to Waterford institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Who is responsible for overseeing the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does the president have a role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does the president have a role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There is an internal review in an institute and the president does not play a role in the internal review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Is it more appropriate, if the president had a shareholding in these companies, that he or she would not play a role in the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Would Mr. Mannion be satisfied with an internal review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I allege no wrongdoing whatsoever and I have no difficulty in encouraging researchers to have a role in setting up companies, such as spin-out companies. The information I have been given is that the president of the institute has a role as a shareholder in many of the companies. Surely there has to be an arms-length distance between president and institute. It was said that there was no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his team. He said that the evidence he presented to the committee in the past was given "with the utmost of good faith". He will be aware that at the previous sitting of the committee that he attended, a number of allegations were made - first, that he misled the committee when he was before it previously and, second, that there was, and still is, a cover-up within...
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: I am sorry, the first part is important. The question I asked was: does Mr. O'Brien accept that he misled this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: And we will test that. However, Mr. O'Brien agrees that he gave inaccurate information to the committee