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. Liam Kidd:
He or she is accountable to me, ultimately. I would like to come back to the point made about the governance of ICT money because it was raised earlier. We have governance structures in place for all ICT projects and expenditures. Previously, in 2009 and onwards, we had the ICT steering group, which met quarterly. Underneath that, there were governance boards which dealt with projects. Then, in 2016, the new ICT governance board was launched. I have the terms of reference here, but all of those are attended by people internally and externally from the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Justice and Equality. Therefore, there is governance in place. Those boards meet quarterly. Subordinate to those, there are individual project boards which deal with the internal projects on which we are working within the projects. On a routine basis, within ICT, I manage money monthly. I have a monthly financial meeting from the start of the year through to September. That is attended by my own line managers, and we manage the budget through to the end of the year-----