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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount spent by his Department and State agencies under his aegis on outside contract and or third party public relations advice and training in past three years to date in 2017, by year and company engaged, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 266. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by his Department and State agencies under his aegis on outside contract and or third party public relations advice and training in past three years to date in 2017, by year and company engaged, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29228/17]

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)

Catherine Murphy: I, too, will keep my questions short and I hope the responses will be as succinct as possible to try to maximise the time available. To pick up on the Cabra account, it was the Cabra account.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Was it a personal account or a Garda account?

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)

Catherine Murphy: The suspicion that the money-----

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)

Catherine Murphy: It was Mr. Kelly, who was head of internal audit, who notified the Commissioner so he would have indicated an approximate amount. In what range was 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)

Catherine Murphy: There is a range.

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)

Catherine Murphy: What timeline are we talking about?

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)

Catherine Murphy: It could be a range of different people.

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)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of the level of offence of which there is suspicion, is that on the serious end?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Is that exclusively around the European money?

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)

Catherine Murphy: There are two ends to this account. There is the money controlled by an account in Cabra but in terms of how it got there, I raised a question here a couple of weeks ago about money coming from Templemore to a Dublin account that was controlled by a senior member of the force. I presume that is what we are talking about here. When I asked Mr. Kelly, he said that he was not happy to discuss...

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)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want to be unfair to the Commissioner, but I must refer to the timing of the referral yesterday given that this is a subject which, over the last two weeks, has come into play here. While I am very pleased that something is being inquired into by the appropriate body, I have to point out that the timing appears incredibly convenient given that the Commissioner is in front of us...

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)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to another aspect of the work we have been doing. It refers back to the letter of 24 October where we read out the section relating to Mr. Barrett collecting all confidential material and posting it to himself. It suggests the Official Secrets Act. The Commissioner termed that an "interpersonal dispute". We have interrogated this over and back with different people over...

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)

Catherine Murphy: When Mr. Dunne was here last week, he was asked about the timing of referring what he had found to the Comptroller and Auditor General. When we asked the Comptroller and Auditor General whether that was his understanding of how it should have happened or if it was the correct timing, he said it should have been referred immediately or very soon after it came to light. When one looks at 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If that is the case and year zero is always the day a new Commissioner comes into office and someone else who is still in position pre-dated that, does it mean no action can be taken?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Personal relationships and interpersonal disputes can exist. However, there are checks and balances all the way, such as internal audit, the head of finance, an audit committee and a section 41 possibility. All of these fail-safe mechanisms and systems should militate against any interpersonal disputes. They did not work, however. It was only when someone outside the organisation...

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)

Catherine Murphy: It appears the person who disrupted this was the one for whom there were consequences, while there were none for those who kept a lid on 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 (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The person who was disrupting all of this and forcing it out to be dealt with instead of being stuck in pigeonholes is the one who faces consequences because of the Official Secrets Act.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Why was it mentioned in this letter?