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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is what I am trying to get to because I am trying to reconcile Mr. Kelly's frustration and his sense of anger at not being able to do his job, "the interference and non co-operation and withholding information", with his decision on page 14 of the report, on 4 March 2011, the head of internal audit received a note from the chief administration officer marked urgent there was a note from the Commissioner and then Mr. Kelly removed a vital paragraph. The vital paragraph he removed was the one that referred to giving assurances on financial controls. Removing that paragraph was a dereliction of Mr. Kelly's duty. He felt when he wrote the paragraph that he could not have confidence in the financial controller yet he removed a paragraph, which gives us the impression that there is no problem and he had confidence in the assurances. Can he understand how difficult it is for me to reconcile that with his earlier testimony that he was frustrated and that information was being withheld?

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