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 Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask Mr. Kelly about finance and the two audits from 2016 in particular. Did he feel there was any mismanagement of funds? Was there anything untoward, given all the different bank accounts we are talking about, some 48 to 50 bank accounts, some of which were closed down and some of which were kept open? The number was supposed to go down to three and six were then kept open. That is all in Mr. Kelly's report, although there is too much to take in. I was trying to go through this last night and just could not take it all in as there is too much. Overall, as a general view, after all his auditing and all he did last year, can he say categorically there was no mismanagement of funds overall? There might have been dealing within banking, and moving of funds from one account to another - the golf money being paid into restaurant bank accounts, and all this kind of thing - but was there any misappropriation of funds?

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