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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Josepha Madigan: 2175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case (details supplied) which found insufficient support for measures giving residents of an area preference in acquiring housing in that area, her views on the impact that this will have on similar restrictions imposed by county councils...

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)

Josepha Madigan: I welcome the Commissioner and thank her for her contribution thus far. She is in a position of enormous responsibility and I am sure she can appreciate the difficulties that members of the public have with the breadth of issues that have arisen. If people cannot have faith in the Garda Síochána to be above reproach, what faith do they have? The Commissioner is here to try to...

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)

Josepha Madigan: Ms O'Sullivan did not know about it at all?

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)

Josepha Madigan: What position did Ms O'Sullivan hold in 2008?

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)

Josepha Madigan: Who knew about the McGee report in 2008 if Ms O'Sullivan did 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Josepha Madigan: Was the Commissioner not aware of any issues in the Garda Síochána when she took up her current position?

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)

Josepha Madigan: Did she know anything of any wider issues of impropriety rather than specifically in regard to the Garda College?

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)

Josepha Madigan: During that period she was interim Commissioner. However, after November 2014, she was the Accounting Officer.

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)

Josepha Madigan: Ms O'Sullivan said that it is not her place to account for previous officers, but was she aware of any malpractice in the Garda Síochána at that time?

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)

Josepha Madigan: What ongoing issues?

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)

Josepha Madigan: Will Ms O'Sullivan elaborate on those issues and what steps she took to address them?

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)

Josepha Madigan: What measures did Ms O'Sullivan put in place to address those deficits?

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)

Josepha Madigan: Is Ms O'Sullivan satisfied with the whistleblower procedures that are currently in place? Does she think they help whistleblowers?

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)

Josepha Madigan: What else needs to be done?

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)

Josepha Madigan: In the context of what Ms O'Sullivan said earlier about repairing relationships, does she think there is still a cultural difference between uniformed gardaí and civilians? From the evidence given to this committee in recent weeks, it seems there is a disconnect between uniformed gardaí and civilians. What steps is the Commissioner taking to address that?

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)

Josepha Madigan: It is accountable to the Government.

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)

Josepha Madigan: Ms O'Sullivan mentioned in her opening statement that the recommendations of the interim audit report will be implemented and that she is happy to provide periodic updates to the Comptroller and Auditor General. That indicates that it will take a very lengthy period of time. Will Ms O'Sullivan tell us how long it will take? We want to expedite it, as I am sure she appreciates.

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)

Josepha Madigan: June 2017?

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)

Josepha Madigan: It will be December 2017?

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)

Josepha Madigan: I recommend that that deadline be met because this needs to be addressed. One of the most important things the public wants to ensure is that this type of thing does not happen again. In Ms O'Sullivan's opening statement she mentioned that she had a verbal briefing with Mr. Niall Kelly and requested a written report from him. Does Ms O'Sullivan have a contemporaneous note of that verbal...