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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not asking for the subject matter or any of the fine detail, just the quantity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I assume it was less than 10 or 20 in the past 18 months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Commissioner absolutely sure that each of these disclosures has been processed and dealt with in a fair and appropriate manner?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: If that is to happen in every case, why did it not happen in this instance? Given that the complaint or disclosure was made in March 2012, why was it not on the Commissioner's desk by April of that year? Why did we have this turn of events?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Without reference to the Commissioner.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Explain to us what the standard procedure is where disclosure is made. The officer concerned approaches the confidential recipient. I ask Mr. Callinan to talk us through what happens then.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: What should have happened is that when the officers came forward and made the disclosure it found its way onto Mr. Callinan's desk.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: When one goes to the confidential recipient, the next step is Mr. Callinan. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The two gardaí are very clear that they went to that confidential recipient.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know. For the purposes of this meeting, I am only interested in what happened in this case.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the case land on Mr. Callinan's desk? Did it not make it to his desk?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not talking about names. I do not intend to give names. I am saying that two individuals went through this particular route on this substantive issue, and the appropriate way of dealing with this is for the confidential recipient to report to Mr. Callinan, because he is in charge, and he then nominates a person from his panel. They chose this route in March 2012 and precisely nothing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, but Mr. Callinan has the substance of the allegations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: This is not about the names; rather, it is about the substance of the allegations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I need Mr. Callinan to tell me whether the matter landed on his desk from the confidential recipient.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the system.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Callinan saying that several different reports landed on his desk on the same issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Dealing with the issue of the quashing of penalty points?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. I find this very tortuous-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in terms of getting the information from Mr. Callinan. I am simply trying to establish whether the system worked for the two whistleblowers.