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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: .... I wish her well in her new role. My question is on IDA Ireland. I have plenty of time for IDA Ireland. It has a very good chief executive and some fantastic people working for it, but I feel that it does not always have the resources that it needs. I have often argued in this House for more resources for it. I want to raise the issue of regionality. The latter, and bringing...

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)

Alan Kelly: ...allegations of theft and fraud, it was worthwhile notifying the Department under section 41. However, in July 2015, a date which is disputed and which we will clarify later, Ms O'Sullivan did not feel that the broad issues relating to a multiplicity of concerns on the issue of the Garda College were of such magnitude as to warrant referral to the Department of Justice and Equality under...

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)

Alan Kelly: I find it incredible, I have to say. In the evidence on 4 May, Ms O'Sullivan said she did not feel there was any evidence of misappropriation of funds or fraud. Does she still believe 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)

Alan Kelly: .... Ruane's legal letter, which we will not see, and then the report from Assistant Commissioner Ó Cuálain on 28 July all preceded the letter in question. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General feel that it would have been appropriate, given that there was a new Accounting Officer in place who has given evidence that she was made aware of these issues on 27 July, that she, as...

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)

Alan Kelly: We have heard directly from the Comptroller and Auditor General that he feels he should have been notified long before this. He also told us that, given the information provided to her in July, he would have expected the Commissioner, who was then Accounting Officer and aware of the issues, to notify him in this letter. Ms O'Sullivan did not do so and that is a huge contradiction for us, as...

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)

Alan Kelly: I am only asking for clarification. I move to the last couple of questions. We have now become aware of the European accounts. Are there any other accounts the Commissioner feels will end us up in this territory which at this moment in time she is concerned will be dealt with by Mr. Kelly in a similar manner? At this juncture, are there other accounts she feels will end up in similar...

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)

Alan Kelly: Fine. The issue is that Mr. Waters feels it is inappropriate to ask his predecessor, Mr. Aylward, and Mr. Leamy, a retired CAO of the Garda Síochána what happened at a meeting that seemed to be fairly crucial, but which he does not remember.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...a comprehensive amount of areas and topics which had to be covered as part of the meeting. That would suggest it had to be a pretty comprehensive meeting if it was going through all of that. Mr. Cyril Dunne feels it was half an hour to an hour. The Commissioner - we will check the record - says it was a very brief meeting. I understand minutes from memory. Mr. John Barrett said it was...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...internal auditor still were not told subsequent to that. Given what we found out through Fennelly, its interim report and its recommendations on effective communication, why did Mr. Cyril Dunne feel it was not necessary to inform the internal auditor or go through the external audit 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 (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ..., the witness was at the meeting of the audit committee and he was aware of Mr. McGee's report - we call it that - and he was aware of what Mr. Barrett had brought to his attention, yet he did not feel it necessary to go into detail at that meeting. The Fennelly interim report has been produced but it is March, six months later, before the internal auditor is brought in.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...was informed of the issues relating to the Garda training college because it was "CCed" on the request for legal advice. When Mr. Dunne found out about the issues through Mr. Barrett, did he not feel an obligation not alone to tell the internal auditor and the external auditor, and we have been down that road, but to ensure the Department was informed?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I know but the Department has told us that it was informed in September. Did Mr. Dunne not feel, once he became aware of these issues in early July, that the Department should have been informed?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Did Mr. Ó Cualáin feel the Commissioner should make a disclosure under section 41?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...the committee he regards Mr. McGee as a good accountant and that he did his work well. The report he did is a good report and we all accept that. Nine years have passed since. Did Mr. McGee not feel obliged in the interim, before this came to the internal auditor in March 2016, that under a Civil Service code of ethics, for want of a better phrase, to inform the internal auditor, 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) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Does Mr. McGee not feel it was an organisation within an organisation? Essentially, Mr. McGee did a report, which is a very good report. He pushed it up the line to Mr. Culhane and nothing transpired for years. Did he not feel, given his role and under the legislation that he should do something? Mr. McGee is well aware of all the issues because there is huge similarity between his 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 (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: My point is very simple. If Mr. McGee had his time again, does he feel he would have acted differently? Six, seven and eight years passed and nothing happened. Mr. McGee knew what was going on here. He knew the structures that were in place. He wrote the report. He was working in an organisation where the structures around accountancy procedures and management of funds simply did not...

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)

Alan Kelly: Given what Mr. Kelly said today, does he feel that his position in An Garda Síochána over a number of years has been undermined and does he feel that he was misled?

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)

Alan Kelly: .... There is the letter of 30 June and there is confirmation of the meeting of 2 July. I thank Mr. Ruane. When he became aware of these issues after Mr. Barrett informed him, what did Mr. Ruane feel he had to do? In fairness to Deputy MacSharry, he has asked this question. Obviously the law is above any reporting structure.

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)

Alan Kelly: This was all live and happening at the same time. I have one other question for Mr. Ruane before I move on. Distinct from his legal advice, does he feel that the issues that were being revealed and confided to him, as he stated, by Mr. Barrett were of such serious consequence to An Garda Síochána that, if not acted upon immediately, they would be to the detriment of the Garda...

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)

Alan Kelly: Does Mr. Barrett feel that Mr. Dunne reacted?