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- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am on the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: And the Commissioner remains in place. That is astonishing.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is most uninspiring. The Taoiseach is treading the well worn path of Deputy Enda Kenny, a master of evasion who brought not taking decisions on Garda reform to the level of a higher art. Two things have been established and they are not in dispute. The first fact accepted by everyone, including the Garda Commissioner, is that she failed to comply with the Garda Síochána Act...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the position of Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan, and the virtual conveyor belt of crises that continue to engulf An Garda Síochána. It is no secret that public confidence in the Commissioner is in tatters. It is certainly not difficult to see why. The Commissioner has failed to tackle persistent malpractice and a...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Commissioner just remind members of the date on which Mr. Ruane advised her in respect of the section 41 disclosure?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Ms O'Sullivan. Did she discuss that advice with others?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: What did they advise? Did they advise Ms O'Sullivan to go along with what Mr. Ruane was suggesting? Did they try to dissuade her of 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I am not being rude. We do not have the scope for a long narrative. I just need Ms O'Sullivan to answer. Did the persons concerned try to talk her in or out of observing the legal advice she had been given?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay, that is fine.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: The decision was taken. She was collaborating with these folks as she made up her mind one way or the other. Is that right?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I am trying to get clarity on a point. Mr. Ruane advised, in respect of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, that a disclosure be made under section 41. Ms O'Sullivan received that advice and then discussed, conferred, debated and deliberated on that advice with Mr. Twomey, Mr. Ó Cualáin and who else?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Just bear with me. We will go there. I just want clarity. She had the advice and then conferred with Mr. Twomey, Mr. Ó Cualáin, Mr. Dunne-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Did she confer with Mr. Culhane?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. I have a letter that was referred to earlier, which refers to Mr. Barrett and was written by Mr. Culhane. It was sent to the Commissioner and deputy commissioners and is dated 24 October 2015. It is pretty excoriating in respect of Mr. Barrett. I think Ms O'Sullivan would recognise that the language is pretty choice and dramatic. The interesting thing is that the title of the...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: No, no.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: No, excuse me. Ms O'Sullivan is not doing that. Stick to the knitting.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I do not want a big long narrative from Ms O'Sullivan.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I would like Ms O'Sullivan to answer briefly.