The Public Accounts Committee has agreed to investigate spending at a Hepatitis C group.

A Garda whistleblower will learn in the coming days whether he will be provided with a transcript of his evidence given in private to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee on a failure to properly implement the penalty points system.

A Garda whistleblower who provided a “box of evidence” alleging widespread abuse of the penalty points system may have to give evidence to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee in private next week.

The Garda Commissioner says he will not answer questions before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee relating to a “box of evidence” allegedly containing information on widespread abuse of the penalty points system.

Members of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee are no shrinking violets when it comes to holding the powers that be answerable for their management of the State’s money.