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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) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: Look at what is happening here today. I am afraid the issue will be put under one big umbrella. There is a very clear divergence of views on the work that Mr. Kelly is doing but there is no good in saying that it was just the culture. Were successive Accounting Officers ignorant of what was happening? Would Mr. Kelly agree or disagree with that statement?

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)

Shane Cassells: Over a successive period?

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)

Shane Cassells: I need Mr. Kelly to help us in that respect. There is a problem in what Mr. Kelly has just said. People were trying to ignore a problem, but having Mr. Kelly identify the problem, was there willful participation in trying to thwart Mr. Kelly's work or Mr. Barrett's work? That is where we are into dangerous realms.

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)

Shane Cassells: That is a whole different ball game. That is why I asked Mr. Kelly whether this was wilful misappropriation or just incompetency. Having discovered that, did others engage in a process to ensure that Kelly and Barrett do not get to the root of what is happening, and there is wilful participation to nullify Mr. Kelly? Is that a culture, or who are the people trying to willfully thwart his work?

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)

Shane Cassells: Is the gentleman sitting beside Mr. Kelly trying to thwart his work?

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)

Shane Cassells: Chairman, it goes to the heart of the very matter. It is very clear there is a divergence of views. We are after having the head of legal services disagreeing with points that were made.

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)

Shane Cassells: The point is very simple, Chairman. It is being packaged as an historical legacy issue. An audit will happen and that is fine. The point I am making is that it has been extrapolated here that Mr. Kelly and Mr. Barrett, having uncovered various issues were then being thwarted in their work, having got on a path that was uncomfortable for people. I was asking Mr. Kelly who was thwarting...

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)

Shane Cassells: I understand what the witness is saying because he will not use the words "thwart" or "agitate". What Mr. Kelly is saying to me is that the fact that information was not forwarded to him is hindering him and not allowing him to do his job. If Mr. Kelly is saying to me that the executive director of finance and the deputy commissioner are not providing him with information required to do his...

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)

Shane Cassells: We are not talking about 1.10 p.m. here today. We are talking about up until this point. Mr. Barrett's frustration here this morning is quite evident in trying to actually expose what has been happening. I ask Mr. Kelly, and I put the question to Mr. Barrett as well: have they, up until this point at 1.10 p.m. today, been thwarted in trying to expose what they have uncovered and in...

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)

Shane Cassells: Is that a wilful attempt to make sure that the public do not know the level of potential wrongdoing within the financial set-up? Was that a wilful attempt to make sure that the force and this magical culture was protected at all costs?

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)

Shane Cassells: I keep probing this is because the witness is putting this in his conclusion. He is saying that this is the ultimate point here: the culture.

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)

Shane Cassells: He cannot just put that in his report, bookend it and think that is it. Who is doing it? Who is trying to stop Mr. Kelly? Is there a larger thing here within An Garda Síochána to make sure that this does not come to light?

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)

Shane Cassells: It is very enlightening that the witness names, not only Mr. Culhane as somebody who is trying to thwart him, but the deputy commissioner as well. Where does that leave us with regard to the actual line of questioning for the return visit of the Commissioner? The questioning of what people knew?

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)

Shane Cassells: What would be helpful would be that as Mr. Kelly's work progresses, he and Mr. Barrett provide this committee with an extensive report, not only of where things have gone wrong, which is what Mr. Kelly is examining, but also an appendix of who has tried to thwart him in preventing that information coming to light.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 70. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend child benefit entitlement to parents of full-time students in second level education that are over 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25837/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each in County Meath as of 30 April 2016. [26122/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will include Quality and Qualifications Ireland employees in the public service common pool; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding that was allocated by his Department and Irish Water to each group water scheme in County Meath in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25806/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the additional funding each group water scheme in County Meath received from his Department and Irish Water in monetary terms as was agreed in the confidence and supply arrangement in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the percentage increase or decrease in funding for each group water scheme in County Meath since the formation of the Government in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25808/17]