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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: No, you go further than that. You said you found Mr. Barrett's statements disturbing and alarming.

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: Which statements were disturbing and which were alarming to you?

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: To which issues was Mr. Culhane referring when he called them disturbing and alarming? I mentioned the six issues earlier and I asked which of them he found objectionable. Mr. Culhane answered that he found none objectionable, even though it is clear from the letter that he did find them objectionable. Mr. Culhane went on to say the statements made by Mr. Barrett were disturbing and...

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: Mr. Culhane misses my point. What he has just said goes right to the heart of why we are here in relation to the period from 2006 to 2016. He said the issue should be dealt with within the organisation. In other words, he is saying, "Circle the wagons". He is confirming everything that Mr. Kelly and Mr. Barrett said and his mindset was to deal internally with all the evidence which had...

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: Really? Mr. Culhane said, in the same letter of 24 October, "in taking this unusual action to report this matter to you [the Commissioner] I am concerned that you should be aware of the very serious statements made by Mr. Barrett and the implied threat of some unauthorised action on his part which will damage An Garda Síochána". Mr. Culhane goes on to say Mr. Barrett, "is...

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: Mr. Culhane cannot just say he made a "general statement". He wrote a letter to the Commissioner and talked about Mr. Barrett in very disparaging terms, about his manner and the way he went about his business. He said his reputation was undermined and there was an implied threat of unauthorised action. He needs to be able to substantiate that today. What did Mr. Culhane mean by "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) (31 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Mr. Culhane did not trust Mr. Barrett and felt he might go to the press.

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: If Mr. Culhane had a concern that the implied threat of some unauthorised action meant going to the press it would suggest issues around trust.

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: Did Mr. Barrett go to the press?

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: Did you have any intention of going to the press?

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: There is a pattern in this and it goes to the heart of whether or not Mr. Culhane did his job. I am trying to figure this out and I am not stating that he did not do his job, merely that we have to examine the issues. In another letter to Mr. Niall Kelly, head of internal audit, of 13 October 2016, Mr. Culhane said Mr. Kelly's report was misleading. Does Mr. Culhane still believe his...

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 report deals with the historical context. It deals with the incomplete report of 2016, the 2008 report, the 2010 report and correspondence between Commissioners and other people. It references Mr. Howard so it does deal with the historical issues. What does Mr. Culhane mean, then, when he says the report was misleading? He goes on to say Mr. Kelly made defamatory comments and...

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: I am putting direct questions to you on each of the three words you used. Mr. Culhane used those words, not me. He accused Mr. Kelly of being unprofessional. Does he now wish to withdraw the statement in his letter that he was unprofessional?

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: Does Mr. Culhane wish to withdraw today the claim made in his letter that Mr. Kelly's report was unprofessional?

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: Mr. Culhane said that Mr. Kelly's report was unprofessional. He also said it was misleading. Does he still hold the view that Mr. Kelly's report was misleading?

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 historical context response does not cut it. I am sick of hearing that from Mr. Culhane in response to every question. I have already explained to him the historic context was dealt with in Mr. Kelly's report. There are two sets of correspondence, one in relation to Mr. Barrett, in which Mr. Culhane attempts to undermine his work, and another in relation to Mr. Kelly, in which he...

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: Mr. Culhane has not done that. Perhaps he would now explain how the report was unprofessional, misleading and mischievous.

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: My final question is to Mr. Kelly and Mr. Barrett. Does Mr. Kelly believe that the letter in which Mr. Culhane said that his report was unprofessional, misleading and mischievous, and, further, asked him to amend his report, was a direct interference in his work and an attempt to get him to either water down or lessen the content of 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) (31 May 2017)

David Cullinane: Did Mr. Barrett have a similar experience?

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: Now that Mr. Barrett has seen it, would he have seen it as an attempt to undermine his work?