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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) (14 Jun 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Did anybody within management?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: So it was Mr. McGee's idea.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Cathaoirleach that the committee might be furnished at some stage with the standards of regulation for the ACCA. I believe that would be helpful to-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I am not finished yet with my line of questioning.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: He is very clearly giving advice or a view-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: By the way, in my view, I do not think this was the witness's idea. I could be wrong. The witness is telling me I am wrong. He is clearly giving a view in terms of disclosure of information that he came across in the discharge of his duties in the compilation of a report and in the manner in which that report is processed or not processed over a period of seven years. I do not accept 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) (14 Jun 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: But did Mr. Culhane say to the witness to tell Mr. Barrett that they could get together to discuss the report?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: So he asked for a meeting.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: So that was the witness's suggestion. Did Mr. Culhane also say to the witness to be sure to tell Mr. Barrett that the report was sensitive and that he wanted to keep things quiet?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: So it was entirely the witness's idea to give all of that information.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: At the beginning of the email, the witness wrote that it "has been on my mind for a number of weeks".
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. The witness is not moving off that position. That is grand. I hear what he is saying. Did Mr. Culhane know that the witness had sent this email in July?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Let us fast forward then to October. Mr. Culhane wrote to the Garda Commissioner, the deputy commissioners and the CAO. This is the letter in which the Official Secrets Act was quoted. In it, he recounted the events of 21 October when the witness, Mr. Michael Dodd and Mr. PJ Leonard were having lunch in the restaurant and were joined by Mr. John Barrett and Mr. Alan Mulligan. During...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: It is dated 24 October 2015. It is the letter that references the Official Secrets Act. So what happened? This was three months after the witness's email. He and Mr. Barrett had had contact.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: The witness had shared his view.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. McGee shared his view that things should be kept quiet, which is astonishing. However, he is willing to take that one on the chin. Did anyone else suggest it to him or did he pick it up in the atmosphere? He thought it was wise to keep it quiet.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: The witness certainly did.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Let me repeat. I do not think the witness is being frank in terms of why he wrote that. However, if that is what he is telling me, that is what he is telling me. Fast forward three months later, Mr. Barrett looked for the witness and had a meeting with him. The witness then ran back to Mr. Culhane and rehearsed for him the contents of that conversation.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Somebody else told Mr. Culhane that the witness had a meeting with Mr. Barrett.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Culhane then pulled the witness in and asked him what it was all about. The witness then told him.