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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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Did the Commissioner respond to 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: Regarding the use of the credit union to move moneys backwards and forwards, funds were moved in from the restaurant account and back when there was a shortage. It seems to be an internal matter in light of the fact that the credit union involved is the Garda one, with potential for conflicts of interest. Does the Commissioner have any concerns about how the credit union was used?

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: Who is on the board of the Garda credit union?

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: However, those involved are likely to have been drawn from the Garda Síochána.

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: Given that Central Bank has a regulatory oversight of credit unions, it might be quite useful to ask it to have a look at this particular case.

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: Other than reimbursing gardaí for expenses or buying items such as food and water for people in detention, is there any other reason moneys would be lodged into Garda members' personal accounts?

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: Yes.

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 I asked Mr. Kelly several weeks ago about the money transferred to a Dublin account, he said he was not at liberty to talk about it because he was involved in auditing it. Mr. Kelly told the committee it could take up to two years to finalise all the work produced as a consequence of the interim report. What other audits are under way?

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: Will the priority be in cases where there is a suspicion of matters similar to those in respect of which he has completed audits?

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: On the morning.

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 will return to an issue arising from some of the questions I and other members asked the Garda Commissioner this morning. The Commissioner categorised what happened between Mr. Barrett and Mr. Culhane as an interpersonal and issue and referred the matter to Mr. Dunne, the CAO. Given that Mr. Barrett was head of human resources, I would expect he would understand if something was an...

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 not just an interpersonal issue in the case of Mr. Barrett and Mr. Culhane. Mr. Kelly, in his opening statement, which I am sure the Garda Commissioner had read when she appeared before the committee a couple of weeks ago, drew our attention to the reasons he was not able to do his job. He referred, for example, to the attitude to the public money that was provided for recruits 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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that the Commissioner come back to the committee quickly on 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: I presume there is an understanding that this would have to happen at both ends and it would not just be a bank account that is being looked at. Is the way in which the money got to the bank account also being looked at?

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: While I know an investigation takes time to complete, when the Garda refers a matter to GSOC does it expect GSOC to work within a timeframe? In other words, is it timely?

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 will leave it at 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: Going back to the Cabra account, I want to clear something up for myself. That was an account into which moneys from Templemore were transferred rather than being one of the 50 Templemore accounts. Was it an account that the Commissioner knew about? Was the opening of that account sanctioned? Or is the real issue here how that account was used rather than its existence?

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: One requires permission to open accounts. Did it have that permission?

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 ask the Commissioner about this year zero. She says she cannot account for anything that happened prior to her taking her current position. Presumably there was a handover and the Commissioner was briefed by various elements. As Accounting Officer, who was she briefed by?

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: Did Mr. Culhane brief the Commissioner?