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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: To return to the audit, I want to develop further the tax numbers that were there in the college and focus on the tax numbers that are exclusively the responsibility of An Garda Síochána that we cannot pass off to a board of directors. We are talking about the bar and the restaurant, the two bigger ones I would think. In the audit report, Mr. Kelly pointed out that the last set of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: Can Mr. Kelly expand?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: I fully accept that. Mr. Nugent is saying that the tax issue is a matter for the board of directors. That is how he pushed away the response to the question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: Neither would I.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: We are directly responsible for these two tax numbers. What I am finding hard to understand is that in the course of that investigation, when Mr. Kelly is talking to these two heads, would he have got P35s and reconciled wages with them to see if there was a discrepancy? Were there unvouched wages that tax has not been paid on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: When Mr. Kelly says that the audit found that the Garda restaurant and shop were compliant in the payment of payroll taxes, is he saying the bar was also compliant?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: It still has a balance of €417,000.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: For a bar that does not open that often, that does not make sense.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: To expand on that, can Mr. Kelly give me assurance that the returns are up to date for those tax heads? If he was doing an interim report, I would imagine he would have asked for this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: I want to be respectful here but perhaps there is a huge difference in how auditing is done in the public sector. I know that potentially internal audits might not be as robust. On taxation, I would have thought that, for argument's sake, that if one was doing an interim audit, one would get a statement from Revenue for each of those tax numbers. It is a very simple thing. It takes about...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: That looks worse for him. I cannot understand this. We have an internal report. We are hanging our hat on the major discrepancies in accounts, the major balances where the private accountant said there was concern regarding cash, and we do not have a statement from the Revenue Commissioners as part of our audit work. Is that not an unbelievable set of events for an internal auditor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: Is Revenue not a big ticket item?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: But it is upholding the law?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: It is critical that there is compliance with Revenue, if compliance and a standard is set for the public. Payment of all is one of the most important issues to be assured. We are talking about over €400,000 that accumulated in the bar. As we know, VAT is a transaction tax. To amass that type of money over the years suggests there was a significant level of turnover. As a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to provide lifesaving medication to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26192/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peter Burke: I remind the Deputy that witnesses from the Central Bank are in next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peter Burke: Will Brexit impact on the capital markets, bearing in mind the dominance in that regard of London? On the capital markets unions, CMU, flagship initiative by the EU, what will be the likely outcome of that initiative?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (30 May 2017)

Peter Burke: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance if exceptions can be made to a Revenue Commissioners rule stating that tax cannot be claimed back for an adapted car for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (30 May 2017)

Peter Burke: 399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) who had two previous appointments cancelled. [25321/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (30 May 2017)

Peter Burke: 470. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to send an official from his Department to attend a group's (details supplied) annual conference in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25721/17]