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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: On the third point, where I agree with Professor Clinch-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I have that. In the third key area, Professor Clinch talks about skills and a skilled labour market, which I support. When we talk about skills and a skilled labour market, which I support, one of the difficulties is that we have had numerous reports at European Union level and at national level on low pay and precarious employment. With one in five workers in low paid jobs, does the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: Can Professor Clinch give us some examples of those economies?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: My last question relates to capital investment. I do not think it will come as a surprise to Professor Clinch that I fully agree with his view of decoupling capital investment from the fiscal rules as much as we can to get more flexibility. The problem is that we already have flexibility where we can smooth capital spend over a four year period. Does Professor Clinch believe it was a...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: You have brought shame to your office again.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: Has the Taoiseach got his story straight yet?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (14 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Gateway participants in Kilkenny County Council for each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the number that progressed to employment within the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7128/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2017 (9 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of the carryover cost of budget 2017 measures into 2018; the impact the carryover cost will have on the net fiscal space available for budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6560/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement (9 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Government currently has the funding to pay for the agreement reached with unions to move forward pay restoration under the Lansdowne Road agreement to 1 April 2017; the source of the funding currently secured; the measures already identified by the Government to pay for the funding, by Department, in tabular form; and if he...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: A number of months ago I introduced the Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016, which essentially allows trade union representatives to engage with employees in the workplace, which is not a right that trade union representatives have at this point. The Taoiseach is aware of the ongoing dispute between Tesco and some of its employees. Today we heard from the leader of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I have a number of questions that require "Yes" or "No" answers. If I might put them first, they will inform my other questions. If I do not get answers in "Yes" or "No" terms, I will not be able to put my other questions. They are simple questions. I am using my time in whatever way I feel is best to get responses from the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I understand that, but these are simple questions that require "Yes" or "No" answers. I will then get to the substantive questions, if that is okay with the Chairman. Has Dr. Herity ever worked in a cardiac unit with one catheterisation lab that does both planned and emergency work? Has he ever had any oversight of a single-lab unit that works with the two distinct patient groups to which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: That is okay. In the preparation of his report, did Dr. Herity meet Dr. Aidan Buckley, the senior cardiologist in Wexford, Dr. Niall Colwell, the senior cardiologist in Tipperary, or Professor John Higgins, the author of the Higgins report and a senior academic consultant at the south-south west hospitals group? Did he meet those three individuals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: Dr. Herity either met them or did not meet them. Did he consult them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: “No” is the answer. I have a number of substantive questions for Dr. Herity now. I am trying to contextualise the report’s recommendations. Please forgive me if I oversimplify them and if I am wrong in my analysis of the report, Dr. Herity can correct me. If I am reading this right, from Dr. Herity’s report and his opening statement, he quite rightly makes a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: Dr. Herity’s report has essentially been torn up because the Government is now saying that the emergency services - the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. services - which are currently available at University Hospital Waterford will remain in place. The Minister and the Department have said that. If that had been in Dr. Herity’s terms of reference from the start and if he had known, while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: We are all under time pressure. I have no difficulty with that but, with respect, simply because someone is a Minister of State, it does not mean they should get special treatment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I have no difficulty but the distinction between Oireachtas Members is not helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I have no objection to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: With respect, it is a bit disingenuous for Dr. Herity to say that he turned up at the hospital and he was at people's mercy. If one is the architect of a report and one is carrying out an independent report, it is one's responsibility to ensure that one consults the appropriate people. Therefore, Dr. Herity should have made sure that cardiologists from Wexford and Tipperary hospitals were...