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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)

Marc MacSharry: The Commissioner will be the only one talking and an official can make those inquiries.

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)

Marc MacSharry: In any event, there are six people here so I am sure one person can go out and make whatever calls need to be 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Yes. The document was provided to us by one of the Commissioner's delegation here today.

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)

Marc MacSharry: Mr. Nugent received it yesterday but in fairness we must ask the question. Why is it stamped 14 June if he was served it yesterday? With regard to the paper trail, although Mr. Nugent may not have been in the office and someone else must have the authorisation to open his mail, stamp it accordingly and so on, it says 14 June which is six days ago.

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)

Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that. There is a consistency in answering since these hearings began along the lines of "I was not in the post, it was not my responsibility and there are line managers". We are having huge difficulty getting to who knows what and who did what. We are all time limited and I will return shortly to the phrase of "muddying of the waters". I asked the Commissioner earlier about...

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)

Marc MacSharry: Again, the Commissioner cannot blame us for wondering about the convenience of that. Would it not have been much better if the committee had had the opportunity to consider these matters before our meeting today? There were 16 months in terms of real action, and notwithstanding the intervention of Mr. Barrett and Mr. Ruane, we manage to have this matter in GSOC. It is certainly appropriate...

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)

Marc MacSharry: -----whether the Commissioner would not refer all these matters to GSOC at this point? It would appear to me to be muddying the waters for Revenue. I would suggest, and ask, that the senior management would consider referring all these matters to GSOC. It is a State organisation and yet it seems many department heads operated as islands. Retirements and so on seemed to have been hugely...

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)

Marc MacSharry: Would the Commissioner agree with me that any senior officer of any State organisation seeking to muddy the waters for Revenue is a very serious matter?

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)

Marc MacSharry: The Commissioner should talk to the gentleman at her right hand about 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)

Marc MacSharry: Having read the documentation in detail, and I did not have much more time to do so than the Commissioner, I suggest that the date trail shows that, notwithstanding what the CAO has said, it was in Garda hands since 14 June. It was not given to us, even though it was suggested that it should be, until we sought it, and it was provided to us this morning by the gentleman sitting on 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)

Marc MacSharry: The Commissioner said that An Garda Síochána comprised 16,000 personnel. The consistent theme from all witnesses in these hearings since they began has been, "I do not know about that, I was not in the post, I was responsible for something else, and they are responsible for that." When the Commissioner is asked something, even though the buck stops with her, she says it is 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)

Marc MacSharry: That was my next question. Notwithstanding what the Commissioner says-----

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)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome everyone back. It has been a long day. There has been time during the break to consider the correspondence that the Commissioner only saw today for the first time, even though her colleagues had it earlier. Would she have anything to add to her earlier contribution with regard to Mr. Culhane's reference to muddying things up? That was of course in relation to seeking charitable...

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)

Marc MacSharry: That is not a bother. The Commissioner has had time.

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)

Marc MacSharry: It would certainly be appropriate. The Commissioner is aware of the evidence of Mr. Culhane to the committee. Did she find his story credible? He was appointed in 2000. We had the 2006 report. We had the McGee report in 2008. We had the Nolan report in 2010. Nobody externally was told about any of those matters ever and that remained the position until Mr. Barrett came along. All...

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)

Marc MacSharry: The director of finance said in his evidence that he advised the Commissioner and, effectively, it appears that she did not listen to him. He told us he wanted to change all the arrangements but clearly the Commissioner did not want to. 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)

Marc MacSharry: I am paraphrasing his evidence. He had a vision for all these changes that never happened.

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)

Marc MacSharry: The line he kept using when he was in with us is that he pushed it up the line. It is frustrating for us committee members. I know it is difficult for the Commissioner to confer with people but we find it useful if the person in charge answers the questions. Mr. Culhane pushed it up the line. People up the line were aware of all those matters in 2000, 2006, 2008, 2010. He pushed it up...

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)

Marc MacSharry: He said he passed it up the line. The Commissioner was up the line.

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)

Marc MacSharry: If Mr. Culhane’s evidence is correct, is a failure of the Commissioner’s predecessors?