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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I am also aware that the individuals concerned claim they were isolated in their workplaces. They felt they were victimised to whatever extent. One of them subsequently left the service of An Garda Síochána. Does the Commissioner not accept it would be difficult for them to hear him use a word like "disgusting" to describe their behaviour?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That is all right but it was the Commissioner and not I who offered up the term "disgusting". I am simply saying that is a strong term.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: On reflection, the Commissioner remains of that view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: What will happen to the individuals when they appear before this committee? What are the consequences for them or will there be consequences for them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: What message does the Commissioner think that might send to other serving gardaí who might have some information or who might be minded to come forward and to be whistleblowers? I note that the Commissioner referred to the individuals as "so-called whistleblowers". Is he concerned that his approach to this matter and his approach at this committee today might send a very negative...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Is it, therefore, the Commissioner's contention these men have acted irresponsibly? Is this what the Commissioner is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: They have acted irresponsibly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner contests the fact these whistleblowers came forward with allegations of widespread wrongdoing in respect of the writing off of penalty points. He states this simply is not true. He states he had a single report in April and that he appointed an assistant commissioner to investigate matters. It took eight months through an undefined process he will not share with us and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to know the sequence of events from the Commissioner's point of view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I would like to know the sequence of events from the Commissioner's point of view from December onwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of the whistleblowers and the information.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: We will go through it again.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: We will come to that in a moment. This is what happened in December. This turn of the event happened in a station in Monaghan.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: This was the Commissioner's first knowledge of these matters. He has stated these are matters which had not been reported to the confidential recipient and it was the first flag of this issue in the system.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: How did the Department of Justice and Equality have this documentation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Have we any notion how the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport had this documentation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Clarke. That is very helpful. There was notice of it in October. When the Commissioner got the information on the trawl in Cavan Monaghan and the material one individual was printing off, was it the same information as the information brought to his attention in October or was it additional material from the PULSE system?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Will Mr. Callinan repeat that? It would appear-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: So Mr. Callinan did not get sight of whatever was printed in December.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: What happened then? Assistant Commissioner O'Mahoney's inquiry had been under way since October.