Results 221-240 of 504 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

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 goes on, "Mr. Kelly, who has also had sight of the historic files on the Garda College issues, alerted me to this as historically there is evidence to suggest previous efforts were made to prevent these matters moving towards the purview of the C&AG by at least one former Garda Commissioner." Can Mr. Kelly help us out here? Does he wish to comment? Is this an accurate reflection of...

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: ...ruse to stymie information? The memo states that previous efforts were made to prevent these matters moving towards the purview of the Comptroller and Auditor General by at least one former Garda Commissioner. Was he concerned this would also be the case 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) (31 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who is the one former Garda Commissioner who Mr. Kelly believed prevented these matters moving towards the purview of the Comptroller and Auditor General?

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 the evidence Mr. Kelly cited of a former Garda Commissioner preventing these matters moving towards the purview of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Do we have that document?

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 thank Mr. Barrett. Mr. Culhane has said repeatedly that, in 2008, he advised that the Comptroller and Auditor General and Secretary General of the Department be apprised of the events in the Garda College. 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) (31 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Under what provision was Mr. Culhane suggesting that that happen? Was it in accordance with the Garda Síochána Act?

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: Was Mr. Culhane aware of the provisions of the Garda Síochána Act 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) (31 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... Did he have a discussion with Mr. McGee about the manner of sorting these things out, the risk of reputational damage and, in particular, the possibility of the Accounting Officer, that is, the Garda Commissioner, appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts?

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...proposes to do that. When she takes to her feet on that occasion, she also should shed some light on the case of Dara Quigley, a young woman who died by suicide on 12 April. She had been detained by gardaí some days previously under the Mental Health Act. She had been walking naked in a Dublin street when detained. Garda CCTV footage of this detention was posted on Facebook, a...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday and again today, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, expressed continued confidence in the Garda Commissioner. The Tánaiste does so in the wake of damning documentation presented by the head of Garda human resources, Mr. John Barrett, to the Committee of Public Accounts. This documentation substantiates Mr. Barrett's contradiction of...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...with our role and our responsibilities. Let me reiterate: we will get to the bottom of all of this. Let me also tell the Tánaiste that we and, more importantly, the internal audit function of An Garda Síochána have already established the facts. These facts, which are accepted by the Garda Commissioner, are that 50 bank accounts were opened by An Garda Síochána...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...approach to this and conduct our business in a way that sheds light rather than simply heat. That point is fairly made. Any suggestion that holding the Accounting Officer, in this case the Garda Commissioner, to account amounts to a witch-hunt is very inaccurate and very dangerous from the point of view of the work that we do as a committee. I suggest that we decide we will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: They will have noticed that on page 23 it cites the 2005 legislation and the necessity to seek the consent of the Minister. It states: "In 2015 a bank account (Garda Student Sport BOI) was opened without such consent being obtained". Will the witnesses, please, explain that to me? They have read the report and I am sure they did not miss that section of it. Whatever about other accounts,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: So alarmed that he came to an Oireachtas committee today without having a bull's notion of what the procedure is should An Garda Síochána require sanction to open such an account.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Waters is also aware that matters pertaining to the Garda College in Templemore and, specifically, the audit report are now the subject of widespread public commentary and unease.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...which the witnesses have all read thoroughly and dutifully. They did not miss that bit. I find it incredible that, as Secretary General, Mr. Waters does not know what the procedure is for the Garda to seek clearance for the opening of bank accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Waters read the report and about all of the accounts - up to 50 - and issues in seeking sanction. For the Garda to operate without the sanction of the Department or the Minister is to breach the law. It is a very serious matter. It is not a triviality. Did none of it spark a thought process in Mr. Waters' head? Did he ask himself if it was the right way to go about it or how one...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...witnesses need to initiate one without delay. I do not accept that it as an acceptable answer from Mr. Waters that he does not know what the mechanism is by which sanction would be obtained by the Garda for the opening of bank accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...was the audit report. It also went to Mr. O'Callaghan. The audit report is very clear on many things, but I am citing one instance on page 23. It cites the opening of a bank account named Garda Student Sport with the Bank of Ireland which opened in 2015, and it was opened without consent. For the auditor to arrive at that conclusion he or she presumably had to go through a process of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..." element to this. We accept that these are established matters of fact in this report. I would appreciate if the witness could come back with the facts on this situation. Section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 obliges the Commissioner to inform the Minister and the Secretary General of the Department in a whole range of different categories. These are not optional. One...