Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
What did come before the witness was the audit report. It also went to Mr. O'Callaghan. The audit report is very clear on many things, but I am citing one instance on page 23. It cites the opening of a bank account named Garda Student Sport with the Bank of Ireland which opened in 2015, and it was opened without consent. For the auditor to arrive at that conclusion he or she presumably had to go through a process of verification. I assume, on the basis of simple reason, that part of that process must have been to check with the Department of Justice and Equality. Did he check with the Department?
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