Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. John Barrett:

My report was written with absolute good grace. At the point at which Cyril Dunne asked me to prepare the document, I saw absolutely no difficulty because his intention as stated to me was to bring it to the audit committee on the 15th.

For me that looked entirely appropriate and like good governance, so I had no concerns until I learned later in the month, at the meeting on the 27th in the college, involving the Commissioner, the acting deputies and Cyril Dunne that the report had not been delivered to Mr. Howard and his committee. If the Deputy reads my cover note on my report, it very clearly states that the purpose of my writing that report was that it would be so delivered to Mr. Howard and his committee.