Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Culhane:

In terms of the number of prepayments to Accenture, we are relying on the financial standing of that company. We do not have access to its financial statements at the moment. I am certainly conscious of the prepayment mentioned about the library service because I read about it already. We are conscious we are exposing ourselves to the same type of risk. As part of the process of developing a more robust system to ensure our prepayments are secure we are limiting the type of prepayments to the companies that we believe have sufficient financial stability or substance to guarantee the security of the prepayment. The prepayment tends to be for a relatively short period so we are minimising any type of exposure we have.