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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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I understand that. I have a final question. Was Mr. Culhane happy regarding the issues that arose in the 2008 report as chief financial officer and the actions taken? He was aware because he assigned the staff and all of that, as he said earlier. Was he happy with the way in which those actions were implemented? It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate Mr. Culhane's honesty.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, Mr. Culhane is saying he put it up the line, he was not happy with the way it was dealt with, as he said on the record of the committee, and the actions were not implemented. Not only were they not implemented but some of them were actually reversed according to the audit.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: There was a subset in between. Mr. Nugent, briefly.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: My next question is to the Department of Justice and Equality. I asked earlier if anyone was aware before June 2015. I note the Department was not aware.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: The Department of Justice and Equality was unaware of any financial irregularities in Templemore before June 2015.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Yes, but there was not previously. I understand that Mr. O'Callaghan is only representing the Department of Justice and Equality today and cannot be holistic. I must declare for absolute transparency that I am from the town as Mr. O'Callaghan and I know him. The Department was not aware of the financial irregularities in Templemore training college in June 2015.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is absolutely unbelievable. I am sorry. I respect that it is the answer. It is not a reflection on Mr. O'Callaghan. The idea, however, that since 1960, as well as since 1983 and the Walsh report which the Commissioner referenced herself, the Department had no idea there were financial irregularities in Templemore is, frankly, incredible. I will move to some specific questions and I...

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Of course. I am not trying to catch you out.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Have you any date in 2015? I will not get the witness to stick to it and he can come back to us later.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I will not hold you to that as, to be fair, you are working from memory. I respect 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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: To be helpful, would the Garda Commissioner mind providing whatever evidence she finds with us in the next week or so? I know she is doing a bit of a trawl so I appreciate 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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: That specific information is important for this committee to draw a connection as to whether the Department had awareness of this. I respect that the representatives here are not long in the Department in some cases and there is no inference involving them at all. They cannot have complete knowledge of what happened before their arrival. The information would be helpful to this committee...

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: When did the Commissioner find out about the 2008 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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: It was 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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: It was the same date you found out about the other issues. It was July 2015.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Fine. Who was on the audit committee during these years? Could we have a flavour of who sat on those committees from 2008 to 2016?

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Will you provide us with a copy of who was on the audit committees from 2006 to 2016, inclusive, please?

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Yes. I am anxious to see who was on those committees. It would clearly have been made up of Garda personnel.

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 (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Sorry?