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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)

Bobby Aylward: An Garda Síochána will be able to do that with two accounts. Why does it need 50? Why hide behind 50 accounts to use the local community? That does not make sense.

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)

Bobby Aylward: We are talking about good governance here.

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)

Bobby Aylward: That is why I asked.

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)

Bobby Aylward: I have a few quick ones. I presume the 19 recommendations are going to be implemented.

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)

Bobby Aylward: I have one observation after that. How long before all of the 19 recommendations will be put in place?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Have the lands transferred to the OPW?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Is that in progress?

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)

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask about the insurance costs which are referred to in the report. The State insures itself. Why were there insurance costs when the State insures itself? Why insure twice? If An Garda Síochána is insured by the State because it is a public body, why did it take out insurance? That seems to me to be a waste of money.

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)

Bobby Aylward: Was that true or could they not have been covered under the premises insurance? Is it true that they should have gotten separate insurance cover?

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)

Bobby Aylward: There was no need for the private insurance to be in place at all. Is that correct?

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)

Bobby Aylward: The last thing I want to do is make a comment. I have to praise Mr. Barrett from human resources and Mr. Kelly, the auditor, who came before this committee. They were from the civil side of An Garda Síochána and I considered them to be the most honest of witnesses. They highlighted everything that we asked of them and were the most honest people in terms of answering questions...

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)

Bobby Aylward: I did not say they were dishonest. All I am saying is that those two witnesses were more-----

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)

Bobby Aylward: The Department of Justice and Equality, as an oversight body, has no record at all that anything was wrong. None of these reports was brought to the attention of Mr. Waters's predecessor. There is no record that the Department read it or saw it. It never even heard in the air that any of this was going 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)

Bobby Aylward: This is-----

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)

Bobby Aylward: The Department was still the paymaster however. It was giving more than €1 billion a year to An Garda Síochána. I know it has a Vote of its own. I understand all that, but the Department still had to hand over that money every year. Surely the Department had a role, and the Comptroller and Auditor General would have been responsible for checking up on that role. Did 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is Mr. Waters shocked by what he has heard over the last four days of our evidence and by the carry on that was happening in Templemore?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Is he shocked in hindsight?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Are his two colleagues shocked? Are all the witnesses shocked that this was happening under their noses?

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)

Bobby Aylward: So does the Department.

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)

Bobby Aylward: It has an oversight role.