Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 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 (Resumed)
9:00 am
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
That is incredible. The witness was the internal auditor in respect of this operation. Some €1.5 million went into this account over the past four years and the witness cannot tell me how many tax numbers are operating. That is incredible. I cannot understand this. The existence of tax numbers suggests that there is turnover - and we know there was - so we have to be assured that public money was used in a transparent manner. We cannot see that this was done. There may be tax liabilities in these cases. That is another shortcoming.
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