Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 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

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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But as the head of a professional body, this is part of "the culture" with which we as a committee are becoming familiar. There seems to be a culture of protecting one's predecessor at all costs and passing the buck, in effect saying that was not my pigeon hole it was somebody else's pigeon hole – with impermeable walls between pigeon holes. We are not getting any closer to the truth because anytime it is a difficult question to reply is: "I wasn't in post. I didn't know. That was somebody else. We can check that." We got correspondence earlier that I got from the person sitting beside the Commissioner that she did not know existed.