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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: It was probably signed a few years before that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Will we come back to it next week after the Chairman gets an initial finding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: That is fine but can we keep it on the agenda and have a discussion next week about the legal advice we get? I do not want to be going off and getting initial legal advice that will take us months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I am sure there is precedent here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Can we use this as an example and take the opportunity to write to all Ministers, send out a circular or do something? This is just a holding letter to fob us off until, hopefully, we will just go away or there will be a general election. It is a joke and a farce.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: How can we deal with this issue more generally? There are loads of examples of this happening.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I probably did but I am in a different role now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: How will the committee's further communication to the Minister on this matter be framed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: We must state that it is not acceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: The HSE was not on the ball.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Let us be quite frank about this issue. We all smell a rat. According to the transcript of the relevant meeting, the then assistant commissioner and now acting Commissioner stated he would provide the committee with the information we sought. He was speaking ad libitumwhen he indicated there would be no problem providing the information. As acting Commissioner, he is now the most senior...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Justifying their decision-making in spending public money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is all about public money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I would not lump all the civilians into one bucket.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: We need to make a decision on this. What may potentially happen now that this has been raised, and I am sure there are lots of eyes on this issue as we are talking, is that something may be pulled together from the Department of Justice and Equality with An Garda Síochána, go into Cabinet next Tuesday and become Cabinet documents from which we are potentially locked out. We need...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I am glad we have come to this decision because we need to set down ground rules. There will be a lot of ancillary issues raised in relation to An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice and Equality, and if we are gong to be fobbed off and given the runaround, we need to set ground rules which show we will not tolerate it. This is an example of it.