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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 (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Was it wishful thinking on her part?

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)

David Cullinane: We will ask her. Mr. Barrett said the meeting debated the degree to which the Department was aware of these issues. He noted that there were differences of opinion but that he felt the Department was likely to be completely unaware of them.

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)

David Cullinane: What was Ms Barry aware of?

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)

David Cullinane: When did it supply them? The note in question was 1 October 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 (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

David Cullinane: So it was after the meeting. When this was being discussed, was the Department aware of any of these issues?

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)

David Cullinane: We are tight for time so I ask Ms Barry to write to the committee to explain exactly what the Department was aware of prior to 1 October 2015. Mr. Barrett goes on to say there was a reticence on the part of the Commissioner and others to accept the conclusions of the 2008 report and other materials added by the CAO.

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)

David Cullinane: The Commissioner had concerns over the possibility that the 2008 report was overly critical and the problems overstated.

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)

David Cullinane: In the letter Mr. Barrett sent to Mr. Kelly dated 12 October 2016, it states that a suggestion was made that recommendations in Mr. Kelly's report could or should be varied by the Commissioner and the executive. Who suggested that the Commissioner might vary the 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) (31 May 2017)

David Cullinane: In the letter Mr. Barrett sent to Mr. Kelly dated 12 October 2016, he cites concerns about information deliberately and systemically kept outside the purview of the statutory audit committee and said that a suggestion was made that recommendations in Mr. Kelly's report could or should be varied by the Commissioner and the executive.

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)

David Cullinane: What Mr. Barrett said goes to the heart of these issues. He referenced internal guard dogs "not barking" and said that withholding information appeared to have been co-ordinated. He said that denying information to internal audit could only have happened if it was supported by senior Garda management. This is a very serious accusation. He goes on to say these practices were not just...

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)

David Cullinane: He said in a previous note that there was a co-ordinated attempt to deny information. This smacks of a conspiracy.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Insolvency Payments Scheme (30 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to fact that persons (details supplied) have lodged an appeal with his Department and were informed they would receive a letter before 15 May 2017 but to date have not received such a letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 321. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures his Department has put in place to enable persons that wish to apply for a passport but that do not have a public services card and are not resident in the State, such as residents of Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Canada and Australia, once the requirement to have a public services card to apply for a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I sent on the HEA's proposed terms of reference for the Waterford Institute of Technology examination. I do not think they should be confined solely to FeedHenry because there are multiple companies that need to be examined. There is also the wider policy on multiple conflicts of interest. What I can do is communicate directly with it, but if we have a very limited, narrow focus, we will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I can, but I note that what it is looking at seems to be quite limited. That is my concern.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Caranua corrected the record of the Committee of Public Accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I do not want to be unfair to any witness who came before the Committee of Public Accounts. At this stage, I do not want to say we were misled because we have to analyse the questions, the responses and the correction that has now been made fairly. The questions asked by Deputy Catherine Connolly, other members and me were specific. They concerned the rent being paid in the year to which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: The figures for 2016-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: I also have a follow-up question after Deputy Connolly asks her question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

David Cullinane: That is my question. So from the middle of 2016 until 2017, Caranua must pay the rent for that period. It has paid some but not all of it. In other words, it owes money.