Results 21-40 of 5,911 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Is there anybody within An Garda Síochána at this moment who knows how much cash is in storage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Commissioner Coxon is unable to provide that figure, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Does the deputy commissioner know the scale of it? I am not asking her to be specific.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Will Dr. Coxon talk about what controls are in place in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: What about security arrangements? When audits were done in 2014 and subsequently years later, there were some concerns with regard to security and storage. Those concerns did not relate specifically to cash but were general concerns. I am taken aback that an organisation could come before the committee and state it has many millions of euro in cash in storage but the relevant figure is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Does Dr. Coxon accept it is a significant risk to the organisation and to the Exchequer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Do those systems and controls reach the same standard as would apply if the money were in storage in a bank?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: On the people who have access to those facilities, are there controls in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: There were reports of items being checked out for long periods of time. I presume that does not apply to cash.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: That related to other items.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: There is €40 million that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: That is a very significant sum to be held not electronically or in a bank but in cash notes. There is probably a job of work for the committee in that regard and we will come back to the witnesses on that. The security of that, and us being satisfied as to that security, is significant. I do not think there is another organisation in the State, although I accept the Garda is different,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Harris will understand that the risk of potential fraud for a bank note is entirely different than the risk in respect of illegal drugs or a firearm. Cash is very transferable. It is legal tender.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Bank notes pose a significant threat and there is over €40 million on hand. I have a real concern that that is not accounted for in the appropriate accounts or elsewhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Legally, however, it is money that will come to the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: That is all the more reason this committee should have confidence that it is being managed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: If Apple owed us many millions, we would want it in an escrow account. The Comptroller and Auditor General would want to know it was being invested correctly and so on. There is a much bigger piece of work for the Department of justice, but also for the public accounts committee, to examine how almost €40 million of potentially public money is being stored.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I accept the Commissioner's bona fides. The transparency piece is the important part.