David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It goes on. Unfortunately, for all of us it gets worse. On page 14, it states that on 2 March 2011, the GIAS reported to the Garda Commissioner on financial controls in 2010. It stated the GIAS could provide no assurance in regard to financial controls, that the GIAS sought to conduct an audit of the financial controls but was told work was being done by the finance directorate and because of that, it removed a paragraph from its own report. It then sought access to this report several times from the finance directorate. It stated that despite requests for access to this report, the GIAS was told it was still in draft even though it had been given to college management.

Again, there seems to be an ongoing attempt to frustrate the work of the GIAS. It was seeking this draft report and it could not get it. Is that the Commissioner’s understanding of what happened?