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:

There is substantial expenditure in this area. When we started this in 2016, it was after a period when we had not been spending a great deal of money. Then, we were approved for getting some of these projects back running again. There was an urgency to get some of these in place, like the Schengen Agreement and the Prüm Convention, because we had commitments to Europe. Given that we were spending significant money again, it became an area that potentially had risk attached to it.