Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

I just want to add, for complete transparency, that there were further indications in another note on the same document that a meeting was arranged in the Department in June 2008 involving the then Secretary General, Mr. Sean Aylward, the chief administrative officer of An Garda Síochána, Mr. John Leamy and the then Garda Commissioner, Mr. Fachtna Murphy and myself. I have to say, I have absolutely no recollection of that meeting. We have no documents on file in the Department on it and we have been unable to unearth any documents relating to it.