The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended that An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na provide a clearer breakdown of its expenditure.<\/p>\n
In a report due to be published today, the PAC expressed concern over the high value of cash stored in the garda estate which it believes presents an excessive risk.<\/p>\n
The committee is calling for a central oversight of all cash held as evidence.<\/p>\n
It said that such oversight should include regular monitoring and reporting in order to mitigate risks.<\/p>\n
It also recommended that An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and the Department of Justice examine the feasibility of lodging seized cash into secure, interest-bearing accounts, similar to the arrangements operated by the Revenue Commissioners.<\/p>\n
Any move to implement this change must ensure that the evidential integrity is preserved and that it complies with the court’s requirements.<\/p>\n
The Committee has given An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na nine months to come back with an update on actions taken to address this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended that An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na provide a clearer breakdown of its expenditure.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-421530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}