Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
What I see when I read the two interim reports is a pattern that we had with the Garda training college as well, where there is much emphasis on managing the problem. That has to be done, because Mr. Finn is right that, if there is a problem, it has to be corrected. I do not see the same level of urgency or attention being given to management failures, and people being held to account for what happened. It does not scream from the pages from what I have seen and that concerns me. What level of scrutiny, examination and investigation is there ongoing with regard to potential management failures? Things do not always happen by accident. It may well be an accident but I would surmise that, in this case, it is possibly not. If it was not an accident, somebody is responsible for the system failure and people have to be held to account. Is that part of that ongoing work?
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