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:

This morning, sorry. With regard to the minute of the 7 January 2008, I was writing to the assistant commissioner in charge of strategy who had responsibility for the college. I wrote to him to inform him that Barry McGee would be carrying out this audit and that he should make all records available to Mr. McGee. The assistant commissioner confirmed to me that all records would be made available. Barry McGee carried out the report and it was submitted to me. In the documentation the committee received this morning, in the last paragraph of the minute dated 25 May 2008, I gave advice that the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality and the Comptroller and Auditor General should be informed about the matters. There is an action plan I set out, which is attached to that minute. The last paragraph is headed as the disclosure to the Comptroller and Auditor General and to the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, and I also mentioned informing the internal auditor.