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Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: There is no issue then. I wonder-----

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: I will stay on the pension issue because the next one would probably require a long preamble. For the Comptroller and Auditor General, this is probably not a dissimilar question in terms of the accumulated balances in the pension control account. We have been provided with a briefing note which is quite thorough. My knowledge of pension law is not great. Mr. Brownlee has outlined that the...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: I see.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Last year.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: It will be a year. In other words, it is done.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Does that cover the accumulated balances in the pension control account as well?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Presumably with that would have to come financial support from the State given demographics, etc.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: I understand, Mr. Brownlee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: I wish the Commissioner and her team a good morning. I would like to begin by summing up these issues and events as sloppy, appalling and an unprofessional catastrophe. I think this will have long lasting effects on Garda morale and public trust. I have listened carefully to the Commissioner's remarks on a number of specific questions and am minded to recall her summing up of Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Deputy Commissioner Twomey spoke earlier on the provision of information with regard to MAT checkpoints and the fixed penalty notice issue. That communication was levelled upon the Garda authority last Tuesday. That is what the Commissioner said. Last Tuesday was 21 March. Did she mean this Tuesday? Perhaps the Commissioner will clarify the situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Why would the Policing Authority issue a press release yesterday demanding the provision of information by An Garda Síochána by the end of this week if the assistant commissioner met and briefed them on Tuesday of last week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: I wish to follow up on that particular question. Why did Mr. Finn choose to go down the route of holding a press conference rather than informing the two overarching bodies to which An Garda Síochána answers, specifically the Policing Authority and the Minister for Justice and Equality? Why did he fail to provide them with information on the specifics which he then released to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: I accept that but my question was why he did not inform the Policing Authority and the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in advance of that press conference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Could Mr. Finn please explain what office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Mr. Finn made a decision to provide the Minister with all the information on Monday which was a few days after the press conference. I want to determine why he made that decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Okay. As the former assistant commissioner for change management, does the Garda Commissioner not recognise the forthright breakdown in communication and information to the oversight bodies responsible for the Garda and that we absolutely need frontloaded honesty here at all times? I appreciate the mentality she outlines, and that she has said "We have been brought up as policemen and women...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Why is Assistant Commissioner Michael O'Brien not here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: Michael O'Sullivan, excuse me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Alan Farrell: The witnesses were previously questioned around the make-up of the investigation. Deputy Commissioner Twomey put a rough figure on it. I want to extrapolate this a little bit. I appreciate that he does not have the exact figure and that he will come back to the committee on that. Could we put into brackets the numbers of individuals across the State who are working on this? The deputy...