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- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: For the record the internal auditor in An Garda Síochána has told us that there is no documentation to justify the rolling over of the contract. How much is this contract worth per year, on average?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is extraordinary. We are talking here about taxpayers' money. Taxpayers are watching this. An Garda Síochána, which polices this State and upholds its laws, conducted no tendering process and provided no justification for spending that amount of money. It conducted no internal analysis and there is no documentary evidence to support it. The Department of Justice and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: A total of €1.6 million out of €2.7 million was ineligible. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is not insignificant. I presume, given his role in the organisation, that Mr. Kelly's findings have been referred on to the relevant European bodies. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Can I presume that the Department of Justice and Equality is taking this very seriously? The European bodies, one presumes, will investigate all of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Can we have an update on any investigations, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I understand that and am not worried about that. Indeed, I agree with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: The Policing Authority's report asserts that no one was willing to take responsibility for the budget. That was the authority's finding. I ask the Garda Commissioner to tell this committee who is in charge of the budget now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Was Mr. Ó Cualáin shocked when the Policing Authority said that no one was willing to take responsibility for the budget?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: That was the insinuation, basically, that there was no one-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Ó Cualáin might go back and have a look at what the authority said because that is what I took from its report. In relation to current tendering, I presume that all of the contracts that were awarded to Accenture, which is the single point of failure here, have been broken up and tendered appropriately. Is it safe to assume that we are not going down the same road again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Let us find out. I want to ask a number of other questions. A contract was awarded to a company called Ultan Courtney HR. What was that contract for and was it tendered?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I ask the witness to come back to me with information on that contract. Is Mr. Kelly aware of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: He might explain it to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Around what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I ask Mr. Kelly to explain further. Was there a procurement process for that contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: What was the contract for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: In regard to what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I do not want the details if it is a mediation issue. It is enough to know that it concerned mediation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Is it not extraordinary that there was no tendering for a contract like that, which was valued at €50,000 as I understand it?