Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System

12:00 pm

Mr. Martin Callinan:

My apologies, December. That is a clear indication of my intent that if they had knowledge of any matters of wrongdoing, they should come forward with the information.

Both of these people have engaged with the system at different points. On 1 September 2012, one of them made very serious allegations under the anti-fraud policy to a chief superintendent. When asked at the time whether he had any other issues, he indicated he had not. That file has gone to the Director of Public Prosecutions. I may be incorrect but I think it involved in the region of 20 specific complaints against one member. The DPP issued a direction that there be no prosecution. In June of last year, the other person made a specific complaint under the anti-fraud policy against three individuals and I think there were 17 specific cases of alleged criminality. That matter has been investigated and it is with the Director of Public Prosecutions right now. So they have chosen - very carefully - when to act and when not to act. This is another feature of what is going on. All of these things are of great concern to me in terms of exercising the proper controls that I need to exercise so that we, as an organisation, can function.

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