Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We do our research at this end. Mr. Barrett told the committee he regards Mr. McGee as a good accountant and that he did his work well. The report he did is a good report and we all accept that. Nine years have passed since. Did Mr. McGee not feel obliged in the interim, before this came to the internal auditor in March 2016, that under a Civil Service code of ethics, for want of a better phrase, to inform the internal auditor, the external auditor, the C&AG or somebody? Mr. McGee did his job. I am not blaming him because he did his job. This is not personal but nothing happened. We had Mr. Culhane here a couple of weeks ago and he said he did his job, he reported up the line and nothing happened. I am asking Mr. McGee whether he felt obliged to do something. The last time he appeared before the committee, Mr. Ruane informed us that the law succeeds everything else as the right thing to do. As a public servant, that is also how I feel. Did Mr. McGee not feel obliged under the law and ethics legislation to inform somebody because, as somebody from an accountancy background who was aware of the blue book, he had done this work but nothing had happened? He was in his position for eight years. Did he not feel obliged to report it to the C&AG, where he used to work, or to the internal auditor or external audit committee?