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:

I think that is a huge question that the organisation needs to address, but under the clear guidance of what a 21st century police service needs to look like going forward. There is no doubt about it; it is not a series of happenstance or accidents that the reports of 2006, 2008 or 2010 essentially got nowhere. I refuse to believe that. I do not think that is a tenable argument.