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

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

There are two ends to this account. There is the money controlled by an account in Cabra but in terms of how it got there, I raised a question here a couple of weeks ago about money coming from Templemore to a Dublin account that was controlled by a senior member of the force. I presume that is what we are talking about here. When I asked Mr. Kelly, he said that he was not happy to discuss it at that meeting a couple of weeks ago because it was the subject of an audit. Again, I asked Deputy Commissioner Ó Cualáin last week about inquiries other than the internal audit, and we have progressed to that in less than a week. The money would have had to come from Templemore.

There is a number of different accounts there. As such, somebody in Templemore was transferring money to an account. Was that straightforward in the normal course of events? Would money that was allocated for the purpose of the European funding not have been exclusive to Templemore? Why would that have gone to the Cabra account?

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