Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras

11:00 am

Mr. Michael Culhane:

Initially, when masts were put on the Garda stations, there was an arrangement with O2 under which we had approximately 1,000 mobile telephones for which, effectively, the operator covered the service charges. That has obviously ceased. We do not have any free mobile telephones from any operator, so we are paying directly for all of our mobile telephones. There is a centralised contract put in place by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and as part of that framework agreement we use various operators for our mobile communications.