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. Joseph Nugent:

Deputy Kelly asked whether senior officers were still involved as directors in companies, and I was in the process of saying we continue to have two senior officers who are directors of Sportsfield. The advice we obtained from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Attorney General was it was preferable that the existing individuals would remain as directors at this moment in time while the transfer of land issue was working its way through. Notwithstanding the other issues, the actual replacement of those individuals could in itself introduce delays to the process. It is something we are keeping under review and we may revisit it later this year. As it stands, to be factually correct, we still have two officers who are directors of a company.