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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)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that. I know that some accounts operated independently of each other but the Commissioner can understand people's concern and anger if surpluses were being generated - for example, €2.3 million at the peak - at a time when Supplementary Estimates were required from the Exchequer.

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)

Shane Cassells: The Commissioner said to Deputy Connolly earlier that by the end of this calendar year she would be confident that she would unravel the complex architecture of the accounts. Does she have real confidence that everything will be unearthed and that, as was said earlier, there will be a blowing wide open of all the policies involved? On what is that confidence based?

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)

Shane Cassells: In response to earlier questioning by Deputy MacSharry, the Commissioner said that, at the meeting on 27 June, she hopes relations will be repaired. She spoke to Deputy MacSharry of that difference of opinion and interpersonal differences. To describe the relationship between Mr. Culhane and Mr. Kelly and Mr. Barrett as a difference of opinion would be to gloss over what is happening there....

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)

Shane Cassells: Has the Commissioner spoken to Mr. Culhane since his appearance before this committee and asked him whether he can work with the gentlemen on the audit team who were present?

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)

Shane Cassells: To refer again to the famous letter dated 24 October 2015, he was quite vociferous in his attacks on Mr. Barrett. That is quite unusual. Whatever someone might say behind a person's back, to put it in writing and nail this guy in the manner that he did when he said Mr. Barrett "just stopped short of calling a deputy commissioner a liar" and when he referred to his "irrational behaviour" and...

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)

Shane Cassells: I was a journalist in my previous career and I would not call it strong language, I would call it damning.

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)

Shane Cassells: In terms of these interpersonal issues, and the super toxic atmosphere, I think it is more sinister. There is the issue of the uncovering of practices. On the last occasion I asked Mr. Kelly whether these practices were wilful misappropriation or incompetence. Mr. Kelly said it was coming down on the scale of incompetence rather than wilful misappropriation. However, I probed him further...

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)

Shane Cassells: I have no doubt of that, Commissioner, but in terms of dealing with the issues, it is whether there are team players willing to make that happen. Again, I refer to Mr. Barrett's reply to the same question, who spoke about having a very substantial difference of opinion with the finance director. These are his words: I think there is a very significant difference between outputs and...

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)

Shane Cassells: He does not believe so, Commissioner.

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)

Shane Cassells: He does not believe 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: I want to touch on some of those factual recommendations in a moment. First, let us consider what the Commissioner is facing to achieve that aim. Mr. Kelly in his summation made two key points that summed up everything that he was concerned about - governance and culture. If one is swimming against the tide of the culture - he pointed to the fact that he was convinced there was and still...

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)

Shane Cassells: He was not able to clarify the extent of the "now" part.

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)

Shane Cassells: In terms of the "now" and Mr. Kelly has not used the past tense but the present tense, he said "there is also evidence of a culture that thinks that An Garda Síochána is different from other public sector bodies and that the normal processes, the financial procedures and transparent democratic accountability do not apply".

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)

Shane Cassells: I will focus on recommendation No. 6 in terms of the bank accounts; the recommendation was that the bank accounts under the control of the college management should be closed, with the exception of the college impress account. Let me ask whether Ms O'Sullivan has personally reviewed the arrangements regarding the bank accounts under the control of Garda management. Is she satisfied with the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the high motor insurance costs which emigrants are facing when they return to live and work here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27840/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: 758. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received to date in 2017 for the community CCTV scheme; the number of applications received by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27296/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: 759. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications which have been granted to date for the community CCTV scheme; the number of granted applications by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27297/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: 760. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to date through the community CCTV scheme; the amount of funding allocated by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27298/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: 1148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are allocated home care packages in County Meath; the number of this cohort that are still awaiting these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: 1149. To ask the Minister for Health the number of carer hours allocated under the home care package scheme in County Meath in which persons are still awaiting these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27032/17]