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 Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

He seemed to have a very specific view that a criminal investigation into a breach of the Official Secrets Act should be carried out into a senior management member. It was only in this room that Mr. Barrett, the subject of that letter, became aware of its full contents after many attempts to source this letter, personally and through his solicitor. Ms O'Sullivan acted swiftly on the comments of the head of internal audit, Mr. Niall Kelly, as to his suspicions of fraudulent activity. He is more junior than the director of finance. When the director of finance wrote to Ms O'Sullivan and suggested that a criminal investigation be carried out into Mr. Barrett for a suspected breech of the Official Secrets Act, how is it that Ms O'Sullivan did not take similar action at that point, if that was her instinct as a lifelong detective?

Comments

Robert Hand
Posted on 24 Jun 2017 4:33 pm (Report this comment)

Exactly! Why did she not react to this fiction of a breach of National Security?
Did she already knew it was an extraordinary over reaction, and over reach, so likely not the first time this bullyboy tactic was used!
Or she isn't really his superior but an equal gang member!

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