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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am concerned about that. The Garda is making a payment to an ICT company, probably one of the biggest companies in the world, that does not really need it. How do we know that we got delivery of the €6 million worth of product when it is prepaid? The witnesses may say there was a schedule of payments but this committee is getting very concerned about prepayments and advance...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Garda might send us a note in that regard about the €6 million. It relates to 2017. Was it contracted for delivery and received?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: If there is a legislative reason it cannot be done, that is our fault rather than the Garda's. I wish only to clarify the issue. People often find the following matter curious. The Garda received an income of €83,000, effectively as commission for collecting insurance premiums on behalf of insurance companies. Is that car insurance or something else? Why is the Garda collecting...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are happy with that. The figure jumps out at me. Perhaps somebody was charged with not paying insurance and handed the money to the Garda to pay over. It appears in the accounts every year but it is unusual. It is listed under income received by An Garda Síochána. The Garda might revert to us with a note in that regard. Does the Garda provide escorts for the movement of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Garda does not charge for it anymore.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Garda's interaction with the OPW was mentioned. I got the impression the Garda might prefer to handle some of the smaller matters. If a door breaks in a Garda station, does the OPW have to fix it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Garda can send me a note on the following matter, although our guests might smile. I have tabled a series of parliamentary questions to the OPW and the Minister for Justice and Equality about the canine unit. I understand that the Garda has a policy of trying to house Garda dogs in the properties of their handlers in order that they will have a good relationship.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have followed the matter for a year or two. The Department of Justice and Equality had approved the initiative, as had the Garda and the OPW. I am now told that the cost to the OPW, for what one would have thought was a minor issue, is quite high. I accept that the OPW has to do whatever it must and that people have different types of properties. I have been told that the OPW has done...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Garda might send a note on the Laois-Offaly division Garda headquarters, in which I, like everyone else, have an interest. I know there is a proposal for a major extension to the division headquarters in Portlaoise. I will not delay the meeting but the Garda might send an update in writing. We will adjourn until 16 May, when we will resume our examination of the financial statements...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recruitment campaigns to An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years; the number of applications received in respect of each campaign; the number of persons that joined An Garda Síochána as a result of the campaigns; when each of the processes concluded; if the applications received in...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...that the clerk to the committee will seek any follow-up information and carry out the agreed actions mentioned during the course of the meeting. We will adjourn until 9 May when we will meet An Garda Síochána in regard to the appropriation accounts for 2017 for Vote 20, An Garda Síochána; and the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...in the work programme. We are trying to fill it. Next week, we will hear from the EPA. The following week is a non-sitting week. We have the list of other organisations to come in, including An Garda Síochána, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, the Courts Service, the Department of Finance and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs along with NTMA...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: .... I felt that it was my duty as the Chairman of a committee, and as an individual, that if remarks relating to potential criminality were highlighted to me, they should be referred to An Garda Síochána. I stated last week that the entire transcript, including the issues raised by the Deputy, needed to be investigated in respect of criminality, such as theft of State property...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ..., are put through the Chair. I took my decision as Chair not to allow those questions be put through me to the Accounting Officer. I made the decision and wanted those questions to be sent to the Garda Síochána, which is what I did. That is my position. We have both indicated our positions on it. I have no problem with some higher committee in this establishment ruling on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...However, because he included in the series of question the term “which may involve criminal activity”, it was not my job at the meeting to dissect his statement and refer this sentence to the Garda and this to the Accounting Officer. I had a decision to make. The Deputy's entire statement, lots of which would be normally appropriate-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...question could have been passed on for an answer in due course. However, because the Deputy's statement included that item, I had no option on the day but to forward his entire statement to the Garda. Does he understand the point I am making?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: .... It could impinge on their good name if they could be identified within the Prison Service based on the information put on the record here. I wanted to avoid that. That is why I sent it to An Garda Síochána.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...activity. As Chairman, I am not happy to chair any meeting anywhere in the country, even in my constituency, if allegations are suggested and I do nothing about it. My job was to report it to An Garda Síochána which is what I did. There, the matter rests. If there is a follow up from any committee, I will welcome clarification.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: .... However, members might not want to travel during a non-sitting week. I am not recommending that, I am just making the point. We will come back to that matter. On 9 May, we will deal with An Garda Síochána. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on overtime is relevant to that. On 16 May we will resume dealing with the National Paediatric Hospital Development...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Has that been referred to the Garda Síochána?