Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
That decision was made at the appropriate level. It certainly was not made at a senior level. At the time, it was the subject of some public controversy. The individual concerned, or the people who made the decision, might have made it for the best of reasons. However, I felt at the time that they had no protection for that kind of judgment that they made. It was partly in response to that that we wanted to make sure that if the division were to decide, for example, that it had evidence but on balance it was unlikely to succeed and on balance there were external factors, there would be some kind of system for assisting those people to do it. That was part of the reason. Mr. Blake might elaborate a little bit on that. The line responsibility for the investigations division is with our head of corporate affairs. On who the specific members are on the committee, the head of corporate affairs and our legal services would be on it. Mr. Blake might know who else is on it.
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