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
2:10 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The Commissioner contests the fact these whistleblowers came forward with allegations of widespread wrongdoing in respect of the writing off of penalty points. He states this simply is not true. He states he had a single report in April and that he appointed an assistant commissioner to investigate matters. It took eight months through an undefined process he will not share with us and the assistant commissioner reported back to him in December. Meanwhile, the Comptroller and Auditor General had contact from a member of An Garda Síochána, the CEO of the Road Safety Authority had contact from a member of An Garda Síochána, and Members of the Oireachtas were furnished with information in respect of this matter. Let us talk about December. What happened in December? The confidential recipient was written to by the Commissioner in December. Tell us about December.
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