Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That would be great. The other point on the time saving and cost saving measures is whether it is appropriate to have a DPP presence from time to time in that office to streamline decision-making. These are very important resources within the Garda and anything that can expedite the decisions one way or the other is important from the perspective of children as well.

I will turn to procurement. We have 44 instances of non-compliant procurement to a value of €8.7 million in 2020. I know we had correspondence from Chief Superintendent Dollard of the Commissioner's office of 18 February of this year, and we were assured there was an appropriate focus on good practice and procedures in regard to procurement. Can we have an update on that? Our concerns are that internal controls did not identify a non-compliant contract. What has been done since then to make sure we pick up those instances in the future?

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