Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Ms Kathryna Clifford:

In the context of our financial performances, it is about the manner in which we allocate our budgets. We have been working a lot in devolving the budgets and responsibilities that are taken at assistant commissioner and executive director level. Generally, in the beginning when submissions come in, we know what will be spent. We have the profiled budget and then the expenditure against it. On a monthly basis, our senior leadership team and their executive review that. We look at the variances and the performance of the finances at that time.