Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 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
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I want to touch on some of those factual recommendations in a moment. First, let us consider what the Commissioner is facing to achieve that aim. Mr. Kelly in his summation made two key points that summed up everything that he was concerned about - governance and culture. If one is swimming against the tide of the culture - he pointed to the fact that he was convinced there was and still may be a culture in parts of the Garda Síochána of not admitting to problems - problems persist in trying to keep them in-house and away from transparent public scrutiny. Will the Commissioner outline how she proposes to untangle that culture that permeates the force and not just in the edifice of Templemore? Where does the root and branch reform of the culture begin and end?
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