Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore

9:00 am

Mr. Joseph Nugent:

The Deputy is asking a fundamental question. I will provide some history first. We have recently established records which show an auctioneer in the Templemore area sending rent on the land to the Commissioner of Public Works in 2007. In his report, Mr. Kelly confirmed that the specific part of the OPW did not have records associated with that receipt. The next period we have is the return of the next set of lands. We understand there was a subsequent lease. We do not know why that happened and why money was sent to the Commissioner of Public Works in 2007 and then stopped. We do not know why that did not raise a red flag. In Mr. Kelly's report, we have not been able to discover the records on the OPW's side in respect of that matter. That is a difficulty for us at the moment. It is not easy for us to provide all the information Deputy Farrell is looking for.

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