Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána
11:00 am
Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
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I welcome Commissioner Callinan and his team to the committee this morning. Deputy Deasy raised the issue of penalty points and as mentioned, the report was clear that there was no criminality, corruption, deception or falsification of records. We take that as a given. The Commissioner indicated that he would have made some of the decisions that were taken or agreed with them. How do we go forward to ensure this does not happen again and that discretion is used properly and not outside what the Commissioner would deem appropriate?