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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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Let us go back to candour and trust in the system going forward then. Deputy Commissioner Ó Cualáin had got this report, this letter, had he not?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: He did. He sent it to the Commissioner. What did Mr. Ó Cualáin do about this letter and its very serious content?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That was 24 October.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay, but-----

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That was the end of it.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Does Mr. Ó Cualáin not think that this goes to the very heart of trust - one member writing to the Commissioner, copying the letter to all the deputy commissioners and stating what was stated? First, what was said about Mr. McGee is completely wrong - we know that now. Second, it was stated Mr. Barrett should be examined under the secrecy Act. Did that not trouble Mr. Ó...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Culhane and Mr. Barrett were on the same committee, were they not?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How could the executive go forward with that level of distrust?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: However, one is asking that the other be investigated under the secrecy Act. One is making statements that are not true about the gentleman-----

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The witnesses can imagine us reading this stuff and we see not alone is there a history, a legacy and ongoing problems, but then we see the committee, or steering group, that is set up to look at this. This is what is happening. I will finish with this. Is my time up?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Right up until this year, we have Mr. Michael Howard outlining the lack of candour. There are a number of notes here, and I referred to this aspect this morning and I want to ask about it again. Mr. Michael Howard refers to emails from Mr. Culhane, which I do not need to go into here. He takes serious issue with Mr. Culhane regarding what he said in various letters. He goes on to say:...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Will Mr Ó Cualáin come back to the question I am asking about the lack of candour that persisted up until this year?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. He refers to the fact that it was not Mr. Ó Cualáin or the Commissioner. Being of major concern to him, the lack of candour was drawn to their attention in November 2016. What did Mr. Ó Cualáin understand by it? With whom did he check and how did he resolve the matter?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Ó Cualáin saying that when Mr. Michael Howard, chairperson of the audit committee, talks about a lack of candour, he is referring to two individuals? I am asking a very specific question because it is very serious for the chairperson of an audit committee to refer to a lack of candour at such a late stage.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: By whom?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: He wrote on 3 November to emphasise his concern about the lack of candour. He was not referring to historical matters. At that time he was expressing his concern. He said he had met the executive board, Mr. Ó Cualáin and the new CEO, Mr. Joe Nugent, the day before and stuck pretty much to the script, as previously notified, emphasising their concern about the lack of candour, the...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. From various people or one person.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr Dunne took it that they were from various people.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: He has no idea who the people were.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am way over my time. I wanted to come to the Department of Justice and Equality, but I will come back to it.