Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Joseph Nugent:

It was about improved processes and rectifying processes. At one stage Deputy Kelly presented a photograph from ten years ago when the formalities surrounding the recording of property and exhibits were not what they should have been. The process needed to be centralised at divisional level and a more sophisticated tracking system for the individual elements introduced.