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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: It is. I am looking at page 2 of the report which refers to "Capital Assets". It states:A schedule of all land and buildings administered by the Department is appended to the account. However, as valuations for all of these properties are not available, they are not included in the statement of capital assets. First, why are they not available? Second, why are there no up-to-date...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I thank Mr. O'Driscoll.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: We have heard that before.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: The Minister does well on that front himself.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: The next contender is up.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Wait until he becomes Taoiseach.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I do not think that the tribunal would-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: It is a Government motion.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: No Fianna Fáil candidates will be standing.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: It did not take long to mention that.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the clear need for him to give a definite commitment on the establishment of a commission of investigation into NAMA's Project Eagle loan sale. He said in his response to Teachta Martin that he is awaiting the report of the Committee of Public Accounts. He knows that committee was not allowed to, could not and did not examine allegations of criminality or...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: The Taoiseach should support our Bill.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: Is it five minutes that I have?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I would prefer to converse over and back with Professor Clinch. It is the way I operate because I find it easier. I will first deal with some of the five key areas Professor Clinch has highlighted. He states in the first one that we need to ensure our fiscal position remains sustainable, which we would obviously all agree with. He then goes on to say we should avoid any narrowing of the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)
David Cullinane: I will just come back to the question I asked because we have a responsibility to scrutinise budgetary policy. We will have to do that as part of our work this year for next year's budget. We are faced with a shrinking fiscal space. We are faced with a carry-over of about €500 million from full-year costs that were not factored in for this year because they were just partially...
- 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.