Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 June 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
Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:
What did happen, and it was all part of the 2005 Act, is that a number of appointments were made in support of that function. The most senior would have been the CAO, that arose out of that Act, as did the director of finance and the internal audit section. All of those were put in to support the then Commissioner in the role and function as Accounting Officer. I am not aware of the steering group part but, legislatively, a support structure was put in place. From my reading of the whole file, it was Mr. Leamy, in his role as chief administrative officer, the first that we had, who was the first to point to the issues and that was probably as part of the transition that those things were picked up.
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