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. Niall Kelly:
As the Commissioner has said, the contract was placed in 2009, with a five-year run. It was for three years but could be extended for a further two years, which brought us up to 2014. I do not have the figures in front of me but the amount of expenditure was low in the period between 2012 and 2014 because we were not doing a lot of new projects. We were ticking over the systems we had rather than developing new projects. A new contract was not put in place in 2014 but we still had to keep the systems going. We could not say that we did not want-----