David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The sectoral issue will deal with the administrative issue here, and that is fair enough. We have a responsibility for value for money and costs. It is being reported that there will be a very significant cost attached to this error, and the Accounting Officer needs to be held to account. There is much focus on the Minister and the Commissioner, but the Accounting Officer of the Department, in my view, should also be requested to come before the committee. I do not know whether the Commissioner will still be there by the time we get to it, but in the past - and I am thinking about the penalty points issue - both the Commissioner and the Department head came before PAC, and rightly so because it involved a cost to the Exchequer. I am saying that for consistency purposes, and because it is the right thing to do, we should have the Garda here as well, whoever is head at the time, and the Department.