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 Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Like everyone else has asked, where does one start? I look at all of these checks and balances such as the independent audit committees and internal audit. A structure was put in place to carry out checks and balances and, clearly, that structure did not work. Throughout Mr. Barrett's report that he wrote on 12 October 2016 one repeatedly sees the phrase "lessons to be learned". Heavily, it falls back on the culture and why it happened despite all of the checks and balances. Does Mr. Barrett believe that this could happen again?

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