Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We need to. Perhaps it is a half-day job rather than a full-day job. The second thing I will mention, so that it can be put on the schedule for some time in late March or early April, is that we must come back to the issue of the IT contracts in an Garda Síochána. Some of the information which has come out is completely contrary to the evidence which we were given in this committee. I have read the transcripts of our committee deliberations on this topic and, frankly speaking, some of the information which has come out in the Dáil, which has come back to myself and other Deputies in replies to parliamentary questions, and which is now out in the public indicates that the scale of this issue is pretty huge. We are dealing with large amounts of money. We are dealing with a certain supplier. This issue needs to be opened up and there needs to be accountability on it not just in respect of what is going on, but also in respect of why we were given certain answers in this room over which I would now have very serious questions.

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