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. Michael Culhane:

My role in that case is to advise the Commissioner. The funds of €2.3 million were accumulated over time, I presume by the college restaurant the Deputy refers to. That was part of the mechanism that was established at the time. The €2.3 million should never have been allowed to grow to that extent and I did not discover it until we compiled the report in 2008.