Results 281-300 of 760 for garda speaker:Catherine Connolly

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...homes in order that people can actively participate in the economy and as citizens? Is there not something cracked about this and the fact that we have to find ways to be off-balance sheet? The Garda, for example, thought - as did the Department of Justice and Equality, mind - that it was okay to be off-balance sheet. Is this not worrying for the Department of Finance? In the...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...an insight as to how difficult it must be for the victims of sexual and domestic violence. Up to 2002, the only figures available were based on the numbers seeking counselling or going to the Garda. The service providers were keenly aware that these figures were not reliable and were the tip of the iceberg. The report, the sexual assault and violence in Ireland study to which I refer,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: .... No. 604B, carried over from last week’s meeting,is correspondence from the chairman of the Office of Public Works, OPW, on the committee’s investigation of financial arrangements at the Garda College in Templemore in regard to Dromard Farm. We will note and publish the correspondence, and it will be part of our consideration. No. 623B (i) to (v)is correspondence from the...

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...primarily comes from the taxpayer. I see Professor O'Shea nodding. I am worried and very concerned about the general comment that this is not public money. We have been through this with An Garda Síochána. The universities get substantial public moneys. They are co-mingled with other moneys which, it seems, are separate from the student foundations and trusts, which are 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 (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When the Commissioner referred to legacy issues, she meant issues arising from those structures. Was she referring to the lack of candour and co-operation within certain segments of 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 (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...than once. The Commissioner has explained "legacy issues" as relating to structures and the ongoing consequences. Has the period during which there was a lack of candour and co-operation in the Garda finished or is it still ongoing?

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)

Catherine Connolly: Another theme that has, I believe, come from the Commissioner and Garda spokespersons is that was then and it would not be appropriate by present standards. Is that not right? That comment has been made. By modern governance standards-----

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)

Catherine Connolly: It reads:The amount of organisations, sub-committees and bank accounts being operated from the Garda College creates an environment whereby it is difficult to implement proper internal controls. ... The shadow audit reveals that these organisations and entities have been operating outside governmental accounting regulations ... The general comment in the report is that this was totally wrong...

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)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Garda conducting an inquiry into that?

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)

Catherine Connolly: .... In respect of previous Commissioners, though, I am asking Ms O'Sullivan as the current Commissioner why action was not taken when such a blunt analysis of the situation in 2008 clearly told the Garda that this was not right. We are not talking about 2016 or 2017.

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)

Catherine Connolly: In terms of trust, when did the Commissioner become aware of the following? She has said that she became aware, in July, of the difficulties in the Garda College.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, no document. Did the legal adviser talk to the Commissioner in June alerting her of the situation in the Garda College?

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)

Catherine Connolly: My question is not did she get a document. My question is as follows. Did the legal adviser alert her verbally or in any way, in June, to the situation in the Garda College?

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)

Catherine Connolly: The Vice Chairman has interrupted my train of thought. Trust is at the heart of all of this. The Garda College trains all the young gardaí. I understand that the working group was set up by the CAO, chief administrative officer, not by the Commissioner, and it was set up prior. 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)

Catherine Connolly: ...Mr. Howard wrote to the Commissioner on 25 October. Let me put this in perspective and I will conclude on this issue. The letter was addressed to the Commissioner and concerned the audit of the Garda. Does the Commissioner wish to see it on the screen or does she have a copy?

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)

Catherine Connolly: ...raised serious concerns about the background. He stated: "Again during 2015, the matter was raised internally within management. On this occasion, the existence of a potential problem in the Garda College was at least mentioned to the Audit Committee" and he gave the background. He wrote:The internal audit has not, to date, uncovered evidence of actual fraud. But, while welcome 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: If this is a grey area for the Department of Justice and Equality, perhaps we are being too hard on the Garda. I have asked the question, and the witness seems to accept that these practices and this procedure was done with the blessing of the Department of Justice and Equality from the very beginning.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...in this environment. We are here as a public accounts committee. I just want to go back to the kernel. There is an internal audit carried out and no assurance that the financial controls of the Garda Síochána are compliant with the public financial procedures. Second, there is no assurance that the financial controls at the Garda college are compliant with the Garda finance...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...he was mistrustful of Mr. Barrett, would not meet him on his own in the future and would be cautious regarding how he interacted with him. Here we are in 2015. There is a serious crisis in An Garda Síochána - an historical crisis, as the Commissioner puts it. We have people together and there are two entirely different versions. I have not even reached the other reports such...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...and the Assistant Commissioners a question? The witnesses can tell me if I am wrong but this is what happened in 2009. On 18 September 2009, Deputy Commissioner Ignatius Rice wrote regarding the Garda Training College and financial regulation. He clearly said that it was important to point out that all the named companies and committees were formed at a time when there was no money made...