Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

No, there is no evidence and, the same as Mr. Colgan, when the whistleblower allegations were notified to us in 2006, we were invited to a meeting in Belfast to meet the whistleblower and discuss the issues. In my belief, we should have followed up on that at that point. There is no indication there was any concern that, as the Chairman has described it, this was someone who basically came in with a chip on his shoulder. This certainly is not reflected in any documentation I have seen. As the Chairman is aware, we were not made aware of the 2008 whistleblower allegations until December 2010. When we were made aware of them, we worked with the SEUPB and commissioned the ASM report, as well as with DETI, on the commissioning of the Prisa Consulting report to ascertain exactly what was provided in the ultimate project and what was its cost.

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