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 ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let me. I have read it, as have all of the Deputies present. The report was published in 2008. Unfortunately, Mr. McGee has his name on it. It was commissioned by the financial director above him. It went to Mr. Fachtna Murphy, who was the then Commissioner, and returned with a recommendation from him that it be implemented. A comment is made somewhere to the effect that it would be a breach of trust if the report was not implemented. On top of that, there was a recommendation that an internal audit be conducted. That did not happen. If the Commissioner still does not have an idea from the Garda's inquiries to date as to why that did not happen, that is okay, but she should make that clear to me. She can confer with her colleagues.

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