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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: It says this in the report. I will read directly from it. It reads: "This oversight role demands a delicate balance between accountability and respecting the independence of An Garda Síochána. In the view of the Review Group there is a deferential relationship with An Garda Síochána with a lack of proper strategic accountability being brought to bear upon them by the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: ...it would come to the view that there was a deferential relationship. Does Ms McPhillips consider it acceptable that an Accounting Officer, one of her colleagues, would send a text message to the Garda Commissioner following the Garda Commissioner's appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts saying, "Good job"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: As a separate question, would it be considered deferential if a Garda Commissioner - not a particular Garda Commissioner but any Garda Commissioner - effectively was writing press releases for a Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: We are not. With respect, it is a general question. It is outside the scope of the tribunal because it does not relate to a particular Garda Commissioner. To put it in other words, is it current practice for the acting Garda Commissioner to write drafts of press releases for the Minister? Is that a practice used by the Department?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (27 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: 295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations in the Waterford division that received major refurbishments in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the works that were done in each station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13693/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: .... Can the Committee of Public Accounts get legal advice on whether privilege still exists when the then Commissioner is no longer in office? I presume that the legal adviser to the acting Garda Commissioner is the same person as previously, namely, Mr. Ruane. I question whether the latter is still bound by confidentiality. To be fair to everybody involved, we need certainty regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: That is fine; that is reporting. What I am talking about is holding the Garda authorities to account. Recommendations were made. I am asking whether the recommendations were implemented? Are the changes that were promised being made? We need to give that some consideration. One could argue that we have to wait until the Garda Síochána come back before us again in the normal...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: ...The issues in question arose on foot of an internal audit report; we did not invent them. The internal auditor said that he could not give any assurances whatsoever that the controls in place at the Garda College in Templemore are what they should be. He said he was frustrated in his work. We saw what happened. Obviously, we had an entitlement. For other Members of the Dáil to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

David Cullinane: ...across the entire public service and State agencies; and there is process as to why some are and some are not under the National Shared Services Office. There could be logic, for example with Garda and Army pensions, as to why they are not covered. Before we report on it, we will need to have officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform appear before the committee to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: ...of investigation will be established to address the concerns of the victims of Bill Kenneally? This is a very serious issue where concerns have been raised about the handling of this case by An Garda Síochána, the HSE, Tusla and the old health board. I certainly do not want to make politics with this issue. I simply ask the Tánaiste to ensure, for the hundreds of victims...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: ...Why do we have so many? It is because no one is ever held to account. If we consider all the crises over the past decade, not one single individual has been properly held to account. On Stepaside Garda station, the Tánaiste needs to examine the evidence presented to the Committee of Public Accounts. The criteria given to the former Garda Commissioner by the former Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: ...in public office and the report gave us shining examples and illustrations of why we need a real change in Irish politics. One of those shining examples was the decision to reopen Stepaside Garda station. This was a prime example of stroke politics if ever one was needed. The head of Dublin policing told the Committee of Public Accounts that the reopening of Stepaside Garda station...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

David Cullinane: ...me that we come in here to do a job and - taking this case as an example - we have 400 pages of correspondence which we, with our limited staff, have to go through. We have had the HSE, An Garda Síochána, the Department of Education and Skills and different universities in here. We have seen wrongdoing. We have had all sorts of reports, most of which have been external,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2017)

David Cullinane: ...agreed to send a reply to the individual. The Minister in his correspondence encouraged the individual to make information that he had in regard to the murder of a prison officer available to the Garda. The individual has been in touch again with the secretariat and today’s item is additional information in relation to his general situation. While we are sympathetic to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

David Cullinane: ...that they would answer basic questions. I would say they are certainly obliged to do so. In recent months, representatives of Nursing Homes Ireland, the HSE, the education and training boards, An Garda Síochána, the Department of Education and Skills, HIQA, the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

David Cullinane: ...there was a cover-up, whether there was suppression or withholding of documentation by senior Department of Justice and Equality officials or whether this was a collaborative approach by senior gardaí, politicians and senior departmental officials. The Government has not got its head around this simple fact. There was a vicious campaign and a legal strategy constructed by very...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

David Cullinane: Mr. Leahy said a few moments ago that the reopening of Stepaside Garda station would have involved the allocation of significant additional personnel or the deployment of additional personnel. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

David Cullinane: Let us suppose Mr. Leahy was making a purely operational decision as the assistant commissioner with responsibility for Garda services in Dublin. Would the reopening of Stepaside Garda station be his number one priority?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

David Cullinane: Stepaside Garda station would not be the first priority. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

David Cullinane: It was a decision of the Commissioner and noted by the Government. My question is to Mr. Ó Cualáin. Is it the case that Stepaside Garda station will be reopened?