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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Can I just tell the Commissioner the reason I am making this point to him? He has consistently cited the 1.46 million of these charges that are made and has stated that out of that, there is only a dilemma, an issue or something irregular in respect of approximately 66,500 of them, as though that somehow resolves the matter and indicates the system is okay and there is not a problem. Does...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Just so the Commissioner and I are clear for the remainder of this conversation, this is not about me taking a view on matters. I am trying to ascertain and establish facts here and it would be of some comfort to people not to so much hear the Commissioner say it is only so many in a given week or a given year because that does not resolve matters. Arguably, if as many as a single...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: ----- that in and of itself is problematic. However, it has been far-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Let us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner has made the point very fairly in respect of drawing conclusions from the information one would draw down from the PULSE system alone, on the fair basis that there is other background information. There might be a question mark over making an assertion based only on the PULSE records because there could be other corroborating information, such as letters or submissions of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly, and I raised this mindful of that but also of the fact that this committee is in receipt of further material. The Chairman referred to one or two particularly serious instances where question marks arise over court dates, where we are advised there was no court date, etc. I take the point that the PULSE system is not a comprehensive account of any individual case. That is a fair...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Our only means of assessing whether revenue was lost to the State is to establish whether the processes and yardsticks for writing off these penalty points was proper and all the i's were dotted and the t's were crossed. That is why we are talking about this particular matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Callinan is the Accounting Officer and the man in charge. There is no doubt there, but he is reporting to us on the basis that he is not comfortable with this as a forum to deal with the detail of these allegations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: He is reporting to us in a context where we are disadvantaged by not seeing the full documentation. Therein lies the dilemma. I suggest a mechanism by which, on a sample basis, we might resolve that issue. I do not question Mr. Callinan's responsibilities as the Accounting Officer to come before this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps we might use that mechanism, given that Mr. McCarthy has carried out a similar exercise before.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Please do. I want us to go back now to a conversation we had the last time the Commissioner was here in respect of the whistleblowers and the sequence of events as they unfolded. The Commissioner said repeatedly here that there are appropriate forums in which a member of An Garda Síochána can bring forward concerns or allegations. This, of course, is what happened in March 2012,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: A single -----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: We will come to that in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: No, I do not want to move on yet. Let us stay at March and April. We have now established that the Commissioner did, in fact, get a report from the confidential recipient in April of 2012. That tallies with what the whistleblowers contend.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Is the Commissioner saying that the report was made to the confidential recipient and landed on the Commissioner's desk in April 2012 rather than March?