Two senior civilians in the Gardaí have told the Public Accounts Committee they cannot express full confidence in all senior management of the force.
Head of internal audit, Niall Kelly and head of human resources John Barrett are among a number of witnesses before the committee on financial irregularities at the Garda training college.
The executive director of finance today withdrew his previous assertion that the draft audit report was “unprofessional, misleading and mischievous”.
Mr Kelly and Mr Barrett then told Labour’s Alan Kelly they could not express full confidence in the senior management team:
Meanwhile, a TD says she has new evidence proving that Gardai must have known about the true number of roadside breath tests three years ago.
Clare Daly says she’s obtained new documents under the Freedom of Information Act to prove the way in which breath tests were counted.
A review is ongoing into why Gardai claimed to have performed nearly two million breath tests over five years, when the true figure was just over one million.
In the Dail this lunchtime, Clare Daly says the information must have been known by 2014 at the latest.
