Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Corporate Governance Framework of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Discussion

Mr. Ray O'Leary:

As ever, I am coming at it from a couple of angles. As well as chairing the risk committee, I have an administrative relationship with our independent accident investigation unit. As chairperson of the risk committee, I interact with the audit committee and the internal audit unit. There is always a balance to be struck between publication and what can be done with the information and the importance of being able to investigate what happened. In any case where something goes wrong, be it in the case of an accident investigator or an internal auditor, having the ability to go in a non-inquisitorial fashion to follow the trail of facts is integral to avoid it happening in the future. There is always real tension between who did something wrong and what we do about it versus what went wrong and how do we stop it from happening again.

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