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
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
At this stage, I will not go, because a lot of things probably have been asked while I was not here. For an oversight and a whole view, this is the fourth day of witnesses being confronted from all different aspects of it. We have asked every question, I suppose, that is to be asked about Templemore at this stage. If the Commissioner thinks the governance - the dysfunctional governance and oversights in Templemore - and lack of training for administrative and public financial procedures were so bad, how was it allowed to happen for 30 years or 40 years, as she stated earlier on? How was that allowed to go on for so long? It was only in July 2016 really that the whole thing seemed to come to a head. I would like to see at this stage why that happened. Can she explain why it happened? Why did someone in her position before her not shout "Stop"?
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