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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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Would he have concern about the time gap from 27 July, when the Commissioner was informed and when there was a meeting that Mr. Barrett attended? There are differences of opinion between him and the Commissioner on the nature of that meeting and what was discussed. Is it correct that it was however over four weeks before Mr. Waters' office was informed?

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: With respect, the summer period does not mean anything to me when we are talking about irregularities. People still have work and jobs to do. The summer period does not or should not interrupt due and proper process. Is Mr. Waters concerned that there was a time gap of four weeks before he or the Department were informed?

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I asked Mr. Waters was he concerned.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Was he not concerned? That is surprising because Mr. Barrett, who is the executive director of human resources, certainly would not agree with him. The head of legal affairs, Mr. Ruane, who seems to be somebody who did his job very well, certainly does not agree. I have a copy of a letter that Mr. Barrett wrote to the Garda Commissioner on 12 June 2017 about the meeting that took place 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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: It seems to me he was acutely aware of who should be informed of what but Mr. Waters is saying he felt the four week time period was reasonable. He did not agree. He got the seriousness of it and said that immediately before the work of the steering committee could go further, Mr. Waters should have been informed.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: That is not what I asked, Mr. Waters. I am saying Mr. Ruane was very clear, if this note is correct, that Mr. Waters should have been informed immediately. I have asked the Comptroller and Auditor General if he was satisfied at not being informed. He said he would have preferred to be informed. I am asking Mr. Waters the same question. Mr. McCarthy clearly understands his role. He said...

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I would be worried by the response Mr. Waters gave, the level of urgency and the significance he attached to these issues. I am only expressing my concern and Mr. Waters can account for himself.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I have limited time and I am not, with respect-----

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I am talking about when people should have been informed because between 2006 and 2016 people were not informed. That is ten long years of people not being informed, and at crucial times when people should have been informed but were not everybody seems to say they are not sure, maybe it was reasonable when it was unreasonable. Mr. Waters has said that. The Garda Commissioner has accepted...

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: There was irregular bookkeeping, irregular transfer of money and irregular accounting practices. The internal auditor said he cannot give assurances that the Garda finance code was adhered to. He is very clear and the Commissioner accepts there were irregularities.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: The Commissioner says irregularities. She accepts there were irregularities.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Mr. Waters is not prepared to accept there were irregularities or irregular account keeping.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Witnesses were here. Mr. McCarthy was here. The Commissioner several times spoke about the need to regularise the accounts. She accepts and has accepted there were irregularities.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Mr. Waters is not prepared to use the word "irregular", but even if we were to accept his word "unorthodox", he accepts there were problems.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: No assurance.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: No assurance, and yet Mr. Waters told Deputy Connolly that the Department was not only aware of the setup, the model, but that when it was asked for advice, it said there was no further direction given. He is telling me that historically the Department knew about the unorthodox, irregular practices but felt it was all right.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: The Department was aware of the irregular unorthodox practices.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Deputies Kelly and Connolly said they were surprised at Mr. Waters's response and that there were questions for An Garda Síochána. There are certainly questions for the Department of Justice and Equality given Mr. Waters's responses to this committee today. To turn to the Policing Authority, what is Ms Feehily's view of what she has heard over recent weeks, if she has been...

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) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: If the authority has only an advisory role, will it review all the reports of the hearings of Committee of Public Accounts on this issue because Mr. Kelly claims that over three periods, from 2008 to 2015, information was withheld from him, there was non-co-operation and interference? He and his office are independent, as they must be within the Garda Síochána because he has a...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: The people in Waterford and the south east are angry and afraid. They are angry because of what happened to Thomas Power, who presented to the accident and emergency ward in University Hospital Waterford on Sunday with chest pains. He was suffering from cardiac complications. The cardiac unit, the emergency PPCI service, in the hospital was closed at the time. It closes at 5.30 p.m. from...