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

Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

It is probably down further. It is on the second page. What it actually says is:

In collecting all of this confidential material and posting it to himself, I assume to his own home address, is JB unwittingly guilty of a criminal offence under the Official Secrets Act? The Commissioner may wish to initiate a formal investigation of JB's activities under the Official Secrets Act as his intent may appear to be cause damage to An Garda Síochána either through unauthorised disclosure or leaks to the press.

That is a very different scenario than I was presented with yesterday, where my head of internal audit was actually telling me that he believes that-----

Comments

Robert Hand
Posted on 24 Jun 2017 4:39 pm (Report this comment)

Rich when the Media were used and abused by the same H.Q. Gang to attempt to rubbish Sgt McCabe with the kiddie fiddled allegation without a shread of evidence.

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