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:

That is correct. It was at that meeting that I took the action to put together the report. It is dealt with in my cover note to Mr. Cyril Dunne dated 6 July. I will read this for clarity:

I am pleased that you intend to advise the Audit Committee / Chair and that you intend to include the Director of Finance, the Head of Legal Affairs and the Director of Training on the Steering Committee. For me, the devil is in the detail and I recommend that we adopt a prudent and transparent approach to our work and that you as Chair of the Steering Committee take the necessary time to brief all the key stakeholders whose support we will need to rely upon.