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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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry to hear of the passing of Mr. Howard's father. At that stage, Mr. Howard wrote a letter in which he set out to the Commissioner the reservation he had in terms of commenting on this matter but he now feels liberated to do so.
- 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed, Mr. Howard does so very explicitly in his letter.
- 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: What I cannot understand is why Mr. Howard did not much more energetically pursue the Commissioner in terms of remedying this matter and why he was not much more energetic in his engagement with the Comptroller and Auditor General. It does not get much more serious when the head of finance in an organisation, which is Mr. Culhane's position, openly challenges the head of internal audit? 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: That is a the most profound and most basic challenge to the authority, integrity and efficacy of the audit process. I cannot imagine a more serious challenge than 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine. I accept that Mr. Howard is no longer in position and appreciate he is here to assist us with our inquiries. However, this is off-the-wall stuff. Maybe those of us on the outside have different expectations of those on the inside who carry such significant responsibilities. Mr. Culhane directly and openly challenged the authority of Mr. Kelly, the internal auditor, on 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: It is Deputy Aylward.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Committee of Public Accounts witnessed the toxic shambles that is senior Garda management. As we watched that theatre unfold, word came through of a shooting on Dorset Street in Dublin's north inner city, which claimed the life of a man. This ruthless murder was another shocking incident in broad daylight at the heart of a community caught in the grip of a criminal feud that...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware that the Taoiseach was in the north inner city on Monday. Perhaps in the most grim way possible, the fact that there was a shooting on Wednesday actually serves to highlight the tokenistic and superficial approach of the Government over the last year.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So there is no misunderstanding, local people are well aware of that fact.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Leas-Cheann Comhairle ask the Government benches to contain themselves?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Far from a determined approach to tackle the issues, it seems the Government imagines people in the inner city will be happy with crumbs from the table, with a small bit of attention and with a few bob thrown here and there. That is not good enough. More importantly-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: They have obstructed me in putting my-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Apart from it being an insult to the people of that part of Dublin, more to the point, it is not going to work.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The north inner city coalition has set out in great detail-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is very unfair that they can shout me down and that my time has been eaten up in that way.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I suppose that is the Blueshirts for you.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: By whom?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday we heard extraordinary accounts from senior civilian executives of An Garda Síochána in respect of the Garda Training College in Templemore. To say that the set up has been reflected as shambolic and toxic is to use very mild terms. On the Tánaiste's behalf, the Taoiseach committed that she would come to the Dáil to make a statement about the irregularities,...