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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The witness is aware of policy. What I am trying to establish is policy on the one hand, provision of funding to regional airports, which I will get to, and the witness's understanding of that on the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I will refer to one of the parliamentary questions I received back regarding Waterford Airport, and similar parliamentary questions were sent back to Deputies regarding other regional airports. It says: "Development projects at the airports which are designed to expand capacity are a commercial matter for the airports themselves and are outside the scope of the programme." Is that the case,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Mr. Doyle should be clear cut and emphatic, because we need to be clear about what is possible and what is not. Is the witness being clear and emphatic in telling us that it is not possible for the Department to fund a runway extension at any airport?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Is the witness saying that it is not possible to fund it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: A change in national policy or European policy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Could a Minister could change the policy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: On the overall funding for regional airports, how many regional airports are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: That is what I was getting at. We might speak about that before we move on. A change in national policy is only part of the picture because there are European limitations. Can the witness explain what those are?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Can the witness remind us how many regional airports there are?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: There are four regional airports. What was the total capital funding in 2015 and 2016 for those four airports?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Some €12 million for four regional airports seems to me to be very small money when we are talking about ensuring balanced regional development. Is the €12 million because of the limitations as to what can be spent? Is that why the capital funding is so small?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: The figure of €12 million was given for four airports for 2015.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: That to me seems a very small amount of money for four regional airports. The witness has already acknowledged that there are limitations in terms of national and European policy as to why we cannot invest more. The witness has acknowledged that we could change national policy. Is the Department looking at changing national policy, and if so what plans are there to change it? I understand...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: It does not make any real material difference.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I come to my final question. I signalled to the Chairman in advance that I would raise this and I have sent a copy of the transcript to Mr. Doyle. The Department made additional funding available for regional airports, but we had a Minister in Waterford who said there was absolute resistance from departmental officials to fund Waterford Airport and went on to say that the airport would have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I do not want Mr. Doyle to comment on his specific remarks. I do not want to put him in that position. Would he disagree that there was absolute resistance from departmental officials?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Mr. Doyle said earlier that he was the previous CEO of Waterford Airport. Was he present at any of the meetings that took place between the Minister, local Ministers, the CEO of Waterford City and County Council and the airport board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Did he absolve himself because of his previous association or was he not requested?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Doyle.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: There will be a vote in the Dáil in 20 minutes so we will be as brief as possible.