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

On the transition from 2005, in circumstances where the Commissioner took over responsibility as the Accounting Officer - this is probably as much to do with the Department and Garda or the Commissioner - if one were to take over something and take responsibility for it, one would want to go through what was in place at that time and identify any possible risks. One would want to know what one was taking over. Was any work done prior to the changeover from the Department to the Garda Commissioner - this would probably have been done in the Department - whereby these issues would have been examined in any detail? We have just heard that the Garda could not even find documentation. It is probably on a floppy disc somewhere and inaccessible without the relevant machine available to open it. Was any work done? If one is being asked to take over responsibility, one would imagine that some hand over of those responsibilities would have gone through some of these issues.