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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)

David Cullinane: ...- of course one would always want more information - the Commissioner had enough information to exercise judgment that decisive action was necessary to regularise accounting practices at the Garda Training College. Is that a fair assessment?

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)

David Cullinane: ...I did not use the term. The Commissioner also used it earlier today. All I am asking is whether she accepted at that point that there was the possibility of irregular financial activity in the Garda Training College, even if she did not accept that it was a fact?

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)

David Cullinane: Was the Commissioner made aware of the fact that there was the possibility of irregular financial activities at the Garda Training College? It is a yes or no answer.

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)

David Cullinane: ...frustrating for us to sit here and put questions to which we do not receive answers. The Commissioner was given information, that in my view was very clear, that there were irregularities at the Garda Training College. All I am asking her to do is to accept that was the information she was given. It is a very simple yes or no question. When she was given information on 27 July, was...

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)

David Cullinane: I do not know how many times I have asked the question. I will ask it again. The Commissioner says she first became aware of issues at the Garda Training College on 27 July 2015. She was obviously briefed on the extent of the issues. The question I asked was, when she was first briefed and became aware on 27 July, was she aware of actual irregularities or was she aware that there was 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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Barrett says the Commissioner's testimony on 31 May is not correct. I ask her to put herself in my shoes, as a Teachta Dála and a member of this committee. The head of human resources in An Garda Síochána writes a letter to the Commissioner stating that he does not believe the information she gave to this committee is correct. Does she understand how that causes me...

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)

David Cullinane: ..., is inaccurate? If it is inaccurate to say, "where such instances are known to me I have reported them to you" because they did not happen, it calls into question whether the letter sent by the Garda Commissioner to the Comptroller and Auditor General is accurate.

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Waters says the Department was first informed of the irregularities at the Garda college on 1 September by email. Is that correct?

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)

David Cullinane: Does he accept that the Garda Commissioner says she was informed at the meeting on 27 July? It was four weeks after the July meeting that he was informed.

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)

David Cullinane: ...not agree with him. The head of legal affairs, Mr. Ruane, who seems to be somebody who did his job very well, certainly does not agree. I have a copy of a letter that Mr. Barrett wrote to the Garda Commissioner on 12 June 2017 about the meeting that took place on 27 July where he writes: "In addition time was spent discussing Mr. Ruane's suggestion that all key external stakeholders (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)

David Cullinane: ..., and at crucial times when people should have been informed but were not everybody seems to say they are not sure, maybe it was reasonable when it was unreasonable. Mr. Waters has said that. The Garda Commissioner has accepted there were irregularities at the Garda Training College. She accepts that because it is in the interim audit report. Does Mr. Waters accept that there were...

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)

David Cullinane: There was irregular bookkeeping, irregular transfer of money and irregular accounting practices. The internal auditor said he cannot give assurances that the Garda finance code was adhered to. He is very clear and the Commissioner accepts there were irregularities.

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)

David Cullinane: Deputies Kelly and Connolly said they were surprised at Mr. Waters's response and that there were questions for An Garda Síochána. There are certainly questions for the Department of Justice and Equality given Mr. Waters's responses to this committee today. To turn to the Policing Authority, what is Ms Feehily's view of what she has heard over recent weeks, if she has been...

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)

David Cullinane: ...claims that over three periods, from 2008 to 2015, information was withheld from him, there was non-co-operation and interference? He and his office are independent, as they must be within the Garda Síochána because he has a specific job to do. We also know that a report was prepared in 2015 for Mr. Dunne, who was to brief the audit committee in June or July of that year, but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I wish to be clear that we will get the information relating to yesterday's hearings. I did ask for two specific reports, one from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office and one from An Garda Síochána relating to reporting structures to the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office within An Garda Síochána. I want to know who is responsible for what...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: ..., RTE journalists tabled extensive FOI requests. Mr. O'Brien said in his response that if RTE had made a more comprehensive request in respect of local interaction between the HSE and the Garda at the time, then the response RTE would have received would have been different. It seems that RTE did make such a request but that the HSE wrote back to RTE stating that the broadcaster had to...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of the witnesses. Have they been following the proceedings of the Committee on Public Accounts at previous meetings when we had the Garda Commissioner and some of the civilian heads before us? Have they been briefed on what has gone before? Has anyone been briefed by his or her superiors or given briefing notes?

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) (14 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I assume the members of An Garda Síochána will be aware of what has gone before at previous hearings.

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) (14 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: ...worked for or are still working for An Gar6da Síochána. I am asking about the process involved and who was responsible for what. If people who formerly worked in very senior positions in An Garda Síochána cannot answer questions about who was responsible for what, that concerns me. If Mr. Dunne cannot answer the question, perhaps somebody else might. Can Mr. Ó...

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) (14 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. Ó Cualáin agree that in any organisation, especially An Garda Síochána, one would not expect the head of internal audit to feel duped at any time and that would be a red line issue? Internal audit staff should not at any time feel duped and they should get full co-operation. Would he accept at least that if that was the view of the head of internal audit, that...