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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) Mary Lou McDonald: It had run its natural course.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: The letter reflects the fact that Mr. Howard left, not on bad terms. Was there a bit of animosity as Mr. Howard was exiting?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Howard writes, "On the contrary, as my term is now concluding, I would have greatly preferred to depart on a more harmonious note".
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, It was not all harmony.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, Mr. Howard writes to the Commissioner as Mr. Howard is leaving his function-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: -----defending the honour of Mr. Kelly against the assertion from Mr. Culhane that his report was "unprofessional, misleading and mischievous - comments that [Mr. Howard asserts] directly call into question the personal motives and integrity of the report's author (Mr. Kelly)".
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, Mr. Howard writes to the Commissioner setting out his stall-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: -----and Mr. Howard believes that the accusations are very serious.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Any reasonable person would share that. Mr. Howard writes, "The situation can only be resolved if the assertions made by Mr. Culhane are either unconditionally withdrawn or unambiguously overruled by a superior authority".
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Who did Mr. Howard mean by "a superior authority"?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. I am correct in saying that neither happened. There was neither an unambiguous withdrawal nor an overruling by a superior authority.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: What did Mr. Howard do 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Howard contact the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to make it aware that the integrity and standing of the head of audit and, by extension, the internal audit process itself were being challenged in such a direct way by the director of finance or whatever Mr. Culhane's official title is?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Howard contact the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General at all on this 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Howard believes he discussed it.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Was the Comptroller and Auditor General aware that this challenge to the internal audit and its head had been made in such a direct way by 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: According to Mr. Howard, Mr. Harkness was the person he spoke to in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Does Mr. McCarthy have any record 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) (31 May 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) (31 May 2017) Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry to hear of the passing of Mr. Howard's father. At that stage, Mr. Howard wrote a letter in which he set out to the Commissioner the reservation he had in terms of commenting on this matter but he now feels liberated to do so.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Indeed, Mr. Howard does so very explicitly in his letter.