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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: There was an arrangement in place under which the Garda received income from a mobile telephone operator for having the masts on the Garda stations. Part of that arrangement was that the mobile telephone company covered the cost of mobile telephone calls and did not bill the Garda for them. Mr. Culhane has now told me that the second part of that equation does not arise anymore. Was there...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Approximately how many gardaí have official mobile telephones?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Gardaí use the one they have-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Was there some issue with regard to having excess quantities of those because of the reduction in Garda numbers? When the Garda Síochána appeared before the committee previously, was there not talk of trying to sell off excess quantities of those radios?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Culhane will understand my asking the following question. There is a receipt of payment in the accounts for non-public-duty services rendered by gardaí of €4.125 million in 2012. The breakdown of that figure is as follows: €1.954 million for covering sporting fixtures, €738,284 for concerts and festivals, and €1.4 million for other events. Will Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: What was the target and what was achieved in 2013?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is well over half but a long way short of the actual target. Has this been built into the Estimate for the year? When the Minister announces the Estimate on budget day, will this cause difficulty? The Department has been asked to find €29 million this year and can only achieve €16 million. Where will the other €30 million be achieved? Will it involve a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Culhane for that information but it raises a worrying issue about savings across the public service. How many Garda stations are open? Over 100 were closed. How many are open and how many have members of the Garda Síochána living in the accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: How many stations are there?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: An inquiry was announced recently by the Government, with an independent panel of seven barristers examining complaints into Garda activities. Has the Garda Síochána been involved in this? Has it been given the list of 200 complaints and does it know what is being investigated? I do not need to know the details of any of the cases. There are 250 cases concerning the Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is the Garda Síochána allowed to disclose Garda information to external people?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: With regard to procurement, I see in Vote 20, on page 3, reference is made in the report to 50 contracts, totalling €5.3 million, that were not procured in line with government procedures. The Comptroller and Auditor General referred to it. Some 11 of them were extensions of existing contracts and one can understand rolling on contracts. Some 21 of them, amounting to €2.1...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Where there is a car accident, the Garda Síochána must be able to phone someone and get the truck out there within 20 minutes. I understand that. Were there no approved rates of €20, €40 or €100 an hour in place for the contractors? Was it up to the local superintendent to ask the service provider to send in the bill?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: The next matter concerns receipts rather than expenditure and is covered on pages 16 and 17 of the Vote. The first concerns the receipts from banks in respect of cash escorts. Some €4.3 million was expected in 2012 but only €2.9 million was received, a decrease of €1 million on the previous year. Is less cash being carried? Why is there such a reduction? What is the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: What is the approximate figure for this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Does that include air support and fixed wing aeroplanes as well as ground support?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is air coverage.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will provide some colloquial knowledge. I live on the old N7 and every Thursday morning at 9.45 a.m an aeroplane does a circle over my house because it is following the route of the vans coming from Sandyford to Limerick. It has been like clockwork for the past 28 years. It may not be there this year but for the past 25 of the past 28 years there has been support. I can set my clock by...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Acting Garda Commissioner and her colleagues. My questions are not so much about the traffic element but about the general Garda Vote. The number of gardaí is approximately 13,000 at present, down from 14,000 in 2011. How has the reduction of approximately 1,000 gardaí impacted on the ability of the Garda Síochána to do its job?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is the current position, but how has the reduction of 1,000 members of the Garda Síochána impacted on its ability to do its work? Ms O'Sullivan mentioned the compensating factors, but the force is still down by 1,000 members.