Results 19,561-19,580 of 26,685 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: There are implications for funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: What I am asking is that if Oireachtas Members were of the view that the regulator needed to be more proactive in asking questions, which committee would be the most relevant for him to come before?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
David Cullinane: What about requests to be a second speaker on any of those?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. McCarthy and his staff. Will he speak to me first about the urban wastewater directive and what it means?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: That clarifies what it is. My next question is whether we are in compliance with that directive.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: If the witness says we are the source of infringement proceedings, what does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: When did that come in?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: The Commission will refer it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: That could then mean we could be subject to very substantial fines if we lost that case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Who is responsible for making sure we are compliant with the directive?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Who in the State is responsible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Yes. In terms of policy, who is responsible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Yes but the Department would have a role as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: It has a role in making sure we are compliant with EU directives.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: A red flag was raised in 2013 that there was non-compliance. My understanding of how this works is that the Commission will work with member states, make observations and pass comments on what needs to be done to ensure there is compliance. Will the witness talk me through what happened there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: What number of exchanges took place with the Commission and the Department over a long number of years and from 2013 to now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Did the engagements run to hundreds or dozens?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: If we go back to 2013, there would have been concerns about 80 locations. The Secretary General is telling me we may have satisfied the Commission about half of those locations. It is still not satisfied because this is going to court.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: What have we not done? What has the Department and Irish Water not done to satisfy compliance? Is it about funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: It is about underinvestment in wastewater services. I imagine there would be concerns about pollution-----