Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

The work is ongoing to complete the report. First, I must explain something. As the Deputy knows, the Policing Authority has also commissioned a company, Crowe Howarth, to conduct this work. This week, Michael O'Sullivan and I met the company. It will have 22 people looking at this. It will do it over a number of weeks. That will be a continuation of the work undertaken by Michael O'Sullivan. We are looking at a system that goes back. I can have my colleague, Michael Finn, who is in charge of roads policing, explain in detail what we are looking at and the number of records. The records go way back over a number of years - all the way back to 2005. It is hugely time consuming to examine all the records and collate all the information that is available. I think Michael O'Sullivan in his updated position report outlines that he will be finished by the end of July.