Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 May 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I thank Mr. Nugent. I will follow up with the Office of Public Works about the other matter.
Going back to reputation and the lovely word "learnings" - a word I detest because I do not know what it means - I want to discuss fixed penalty charges and the breath tests. It is in the Garda report as a significant risk to reputation and a significant risk financially. Where are we with that? The notes tell us that so many cases were taken. On page 5 there is the reference to fixed charge notices. There was an examination of the summonses and 146,865 cases were found to have committed offences and this was incorrect. Before I move on to the update on appeals, will the witnesses remind us again what was incorrect about the summonses?
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