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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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That was not picked up?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It was not picked up earlier.

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That is a separate issue entirely. This money was allocated to cover the cost of the restaurant and facilities for members that were training in the college and it was capable of making a surplus. That surplus went into the restaurant account and from there into the Sportsfield Company, and from the Sportsfield Company to the boat club. The boat club happened to include the person who...

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: They were a law unto themselves as to how much of this was handled. It is put down to inexperience and lack of training but somebody had to be supervising it. Is there any suspicion that contracts could have been used as favours? Is there any follow-up on aspects like that following this initial interim report?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: On page 19 the report states:It is noted however that the then Head of Legal Affairs on 11th September 2009 in a letter to the then Chief Administrative Officer advises on the Garda College Sportsfield Company Ltd that the separate identity in law can be assumed. No such legal identity exists for the Garda College Restaurant or the Garda College Shop which were never incorporated. They were...

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What is the timeline for the completion of the report?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: They will be done in parallel. Page 23 relates to the bar accounts. The second last paragraph states:At a meeting with the accountant, he indicated that he had done some of the preliminary work on these accounts but he would be reluctant to give an audit opinion on the accounts from 2010 onwards...As this work is awaiting completion, the accounts or records of the college bar were 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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The credit union seems to have gifted the restaurant a considerable amount during the moratorium to keep the restaurant going. There are four sums of €100,000 each on different dates. The Central Bank has a regulatory role in respect of credit unions. Is the bank engaged with St. Raphael's Garda credit union? Has it examined any of this?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: But it is referred to in this report.

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is money that went to the restaurant, which comes under An Garda Síochána. The miraculous keeping of the restaurant open would have been made possible by these transfers. I am sure they had to show up somewhere because there was a receipt there that there has to be an explanation for.

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to the EU funds, the report shows some double counting and money had to be repaid. Has that been fully repaid? Is that an issue outside Templemore? Is that the only body in receipt of EU funding under the Garda?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is there any suspicion of double counting elsewhere in respect of European funds?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to the sportsfield account, we are told that the holding of directorships is prohibited for land. Has that been fully resolved or are there conveyancing issues? How is it being worked out?

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have a number of other questions but I would like to hear the issue I raised addressed. I did not mention ownership and I did not hear anybody else mention it either. The report does not dispute ownership. It is the directorships and the mechanism used that is at issue.

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 (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Of the 19 recommendations contained in the interim report, progress is being made on some of them. What is outstanding and what is the timeline?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff and members of An Garda Síochána and the Garda Reserve that have faced disciplinary actions as a result of the misuse of the PULSE system and other Garda information systems in the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21202/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the local infrastructure housing activation fund is a loan to local authorities or a grant payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21197/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (3 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a document (details supplied); if he will examine alternatives to finance this sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20983/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping (3 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which he will commence with the regulation of clamping vehicles which is provided for in the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 in view of the fact that the Road Traffic Bill 2016 has been enacted and the technical amendment to the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 made; the progress to date by the NTA with the consultation process in...

Standing Order 27: Motion (2 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The primary function of the Oireachtas is to enact legislation. All the laws we debate and pass will be underpinned by a belief or value system. For some, that is a religious value system while for others, values such as equality, solidarity, democracy, honesty and accountability form a civil morality that is not necessarily drawn from a religious belief system. I believe we need to...